Nine of Us is a leadership coaching and DEI consultancy.
The only way to change the system is from the inside-out. When we have wealth, power and influence, we have the voice to demand change, and the tools to build the change we want.
Our Mission
We want a world where wealth, power and influence are equally distributed and anyone, regardless of their identity, can advance to leadership.
What We Do
People say that if there’s no room at the table, build your own table. But not everyone wants to be an entrepreneur and build their own table. If we all leave the traditional seats of power – governments, boards, tech giants and Fortune 500 companies – those spaces end up being run by people who aren’t like us. That is not a future any of us should be comfortable with.
Our goal is to dismantle the systemic barriers that stop marginalized folks from taking their seat at the table. We do this in two ways:
Leadership coaching, where we teach people to navigate the system
DEI consulting, where we partner with companies to create more inclusive and equitable cultures
Our Approach
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No-one does their best work from a place of shame – our approach isn’t about ‘shaming white people’ or making folks feel bad about their privilege. Don’t get us wrong, privilege is real and we talk about this openly, but our thinking is not ‘how do we eliminate privilege’ but rather, ‘if you have privilege, how do we help you share it so that EVERYONE has access to it?”
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We engage with both leadership and employees, ERGs and folks ‘doing the work’. Success requires both groups to be invested and working together to a common cause
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Our job is to educate and build cultures. We don’t make racists anti-racist….we simply create spaces where discrimination doesn’t have enough oxygen to flourish.
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Our team are all trauma-informed facilitators, experts are holding space for both learning and grieving simultaneously
The Nine of Us Team
The Nine of Us team includes instructional designers, data analysts and coaches who are experts in in learning and development, organizational behavior, change management, HR, and DEI policy, who can bring programmatic DEI, build programs, educate your workforce, work with senior leadership, change minds, win hearts and influence the nay-sayers — usually before lunchtime and without breaking a sweat.
our founder
Sari De
Sari is an ICF accredited Leadership Coach, trained negotiator, and trauma-informed facilitator.
She spent 17 years in the corporate world at companies like Microsoft, Facebook, T-Mobile, and WPP, where she led large teams and build award-winning, nationally accredited diversity programs from the ground up.
After experiencing severe burnout, she started Nine of Us, a mission-driven consultancy. Microaggressions, unconscious bias, being the ‘only’, and lack of equity lead to professional consequences like less pay, slower advancement, and lack of opportunity as well as personal costs including burnout and anxiety. Sari is determined to change this for those that come after her.
She uses her training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (a science-based approach to creating long-term behavior change), traditional coaching tools, and her own leadership experience to create real change for her clients.