Mid-career Black, Brown, and people of color professionals are often doing two jobs at once. The one on the job description, and the one that never appears there: carrying equity work inside institutions that lack the structure, the will, or the resources to support it.

StrivEquity Consulting LLC is a leadership development and coaching firm built for that reality. Led by David DeVaughn, MPA, PCC, the firm specializes in Equity-Responsive Leadership (ERL), a seven-step coaching model developed for leaders who are striving to lead with purpose while being asked to hold more than their institutions were designed to hold.

Clients come to StrivEquity at crossroads: a role that has stopped fitting, an institution that has stopped growing, or a career decision that needs more than a job search can answer. The work spans executive coaching, strategic advisory, and facilitation. What holds it together is a commitment to strategy that accounts for identity, power, and the real cost of doing equity work.

StrivEquity brings rigor and care to leaders doing some of the most courageous work in the most under-resourced conditions.