Every service Meridian & Co offers is rooted in the same principle: the gap is structural. We work at the level of culture, systems, community, and career.
A structured engagement for mission-driven organizations that want to close the gap between their stated values and the daily experience of their diverse workforce. We audit, we diagnose, we design.
Nonprofits, foundations, government agencies, and social-sector organizations that are losing diverse women to burnout, invisibility, or disillusionment — and want to understand exactly why.
Culture is what happens when the leader leaves the room. You cannot change it with training. You can only change it by redesigning the incentive structures, decision rights, and systems that produce it.
Monthly engagement with a combination of observation, structured interviews, system analysis, and structural recommendations. Not a workshop series. An ongoing partnership with measurable outcomes.
Six women. One central question. Two hours. A room designed for the real conversation — not the one you have at conferences, but the one you've been needing to have.
Women who are building something, leading something, or on the edge of doing either. Women who have not yet found the room where they can tell the whole truth. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
A course for women leaving nonprofit, government, and social-sector work — helping them translate a decade of operational expertise into careers and consulting practices that finally pay what the work is worth.
Women with 5–15 years of experience in nonprofits, government, refugee services, education, or public health who are ready to take everything they know somewhere it pays them differently.
A peer community and sustained support structure for refugee and asylee women navigating life after resettlement. Not a program. Not rescue. Recognition that these women are already resourceful — they need infrastructure, not intervention.
Resettlement ends on paper. The real work of rebuilding a life takes years. The Foundation exists in that gap — after the case is closed and before the woman has found her footing.
We do not coach women to survive broken systems.
We help rebuild the systems themselves.