Expert Consulting for Educational Success
Our Services
Are you facing tighter budgets, staffing shortages, and higher expectations?
You don’t have to solve these capacity challenges in isolation. Our team brings over 50 years of combined educational and executive leadership experience to help you bridge the gap between limited resources and ambitious goals.
We partner with educational institutions, nonprofits, state agencies, and businesses that are fiercely committed to disrupting broken systems and uplifting communities.
Brainstorm Your Path Forward
Noticing unexpected shifts in your student success data? Want to uncover the underlying behaviors driving your campus trends?
Data only tells part of the story. Our research services help you decode the rest. We partner with your institution to dig beneath the surface, apply proven theoretical frameworks, and translate complex datasets into clear, actionable next steps—whether you want to reverse a challenge or scale a success.
Unlock Your Data's Potential
Have a unique challenge? We build custom solutions. Every project begins with a deep-dive assessment and a tailored action plan. We collaborate closely with your agency, ensuring you review and approve every step before execution.
Our consultants bring deep facilitation expertise to elevate both student outcomes and organizational performance. We don't believe in off-the-shelf presentations; every training session is custom-engineered to meet your institution's precise learning objectives.
We specialize in high-impact areas, including:
Equity & Social Justice: Implementing inclusive frameworks across campus.
Student Success Programming: Optimizing access, retention, and completion initiatives.
Strategic Planning & Assessment: Crafting actionable roadmaps and measuring measurable outcomes.
Leadership & Board Coaching: Aligning executive leadership and governing boards.
Policy & Practice Analysis: Developing, reviewing, and auditing institutional policies.
Accreditation Readiness: Preparing your institution to successfully navigate the accreditation process.
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Principal Consultant
Dr. Garcia’s research and presentations have focused on issues related to equity and liberation for marginalized communities, drawing on poststructuralism and critical race feminist theories. In 2016, she received the TRIO Rising Star award for the Colorado region. She was named Woman of the Year by the Institute of Women’s Studies at MSU Denver in 2017. She was named the recipient of the William Cross Jr. Award for leadership in Inclusive Excellence at the University of Denver in 2019. She was presented with the 2021 Staff Champion of the Year for MSU Denver and received the MLK Kr. Peace Award in 2022. She was also named a CCASA activist awardee in 2022 and, most recently, was named the Ruth Murray Underhill Teaching recipient at the University of Denver. She is a co-founder of a women’s fastpitch league in Denver, The United Women’s Fastpitch Coalition
Publications:
U.S World News Expert for the article, “When # MeToo and Ban the Box Collide” By Lauren Camera (2019)
Garcia, A., Wienski, J., Cote, N. & Silva, C. (2020). A Rating Spectrum for Sexual Assault Education and Prevention at Ten Ivy Plus Institutions. Chapter in The International Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education, Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.
Silva, E. & Garcia, A. (2021). Creating a More Just and Equitable Hiring Process for Higher Ed Staff. Retrieved from http://www.academicimpressions.com/blog/creating-a-more-just-and-equitable-hiring-process-for-higher-ed-staff/
Nguyen, T. & Garcia, A. (2021). Women of Color and the Power of Community. Chapter in Thriving as Women in Leadership in Higher Education Academic Impressions
Hurtado, SS. & Garcia, A. (2023). The Dissertation Process as One of Healing and Unmasking for Sexual Assault Survivors. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
Dr. Garcia has led various workshops for both small and large groups, which have included the following topics:
Student Assessment
Retention and Persistence
Leadership/ Strategic planning
Microaggressions
Community Cultural Wealth Model
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Consultant
Sylvia Garcia has over 40 years of public service experience in state government and higher education. Her expertise includes building new offices and programming to support student access and retention; developing processes and structures to support successful accreditation reviews for institutions of higher learning; leading and building teams; and analyzing and implementing institutional policies.
Sylvia has traveled across the nation to provide student assessment workshops and has worked with various higher education teams to build successful assessment processes and procedures.
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Consultant
Eric's lens as a relational and values-driven leader informs his approach to consulting, centering on employees' needs and the development of leaders to best meet their teams' and the organization's needs. He provides one-on-one coaching, individualized curriculum development, and facilitation support to clients in a variety of industries.
Eric has developed and facilitated a wide variety of programs and training, including but not limited to.
- Curriculum for the Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce's Aspiring Leaders Program on leading with curiosity and collaboration at the forefront.
- A program evaluation for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's STAR program, including the development and facilitation of focus groups and survey instruments to assess the program's impact and overall effectiveness.
- Curriculum for the Guild Unidos Employee Resource Group on taking a more collectivist mindset to mentorship
- Curriculum for the Youth on Record program staff to develop and utilize motivational interviewing techniques to support change talk.
- Curriculum for a Leadership Development program for Denver Health Leaders aligning with the organization's core competencies and addressing pressing challenges identified through engagement survey metrics
