We do this work because we have lived it

One DEI Consulting is a racialized, neurodivergent, women-led equity firm based in Toronto, grounded in anti-oppression, intersectionality, and systems transformation.

We understand the structural, historical, and emotional realities of this work because we have lived them. That perspective shapes everything we build with you.

Lived experience, professional expertise, real change

Alongside lived perspective, our team brings over 40 years of combined experience across public service, nonprofits, unions, and advocacy organizations.

We blend lived experience with deep professional expertise to co-create trauma-informed, intersectional DEIA strategies, policy reviews, toolkits, and training. Our approach is collaborative, evidence-based, and designed to deliver measurable, sustainable change rooted in your organization’s reality.

40+

Years of combined experience in DEI strategy, training, policy, and community engagement.

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Sectors served: public, nonprofit, union, and private.

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Tailored to your organization, grounded in evidence from your own people.

Meet the people behind the work

Every member of our team brings both professional expertise and lived experience to this work. That combination is what makes the strategies we build land, and last.

Gurpreet Kaur Sodhi

Gurpreet brings over 30 years of experience in diversity, equity, inclusion, ethnocultural outreach, and media relations. A Sikh Canadian raised in a small Ontario town, she integrates her lived experience, including growing up with dyslexia that went undiagnosed until university, to build empathy and understanding into every engagement.

Her work spans strategy, coaching, training, and the creation of toolkits that help organizations put inclusion into practice.

Brittany Manu

Brittany is an advocate for inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility, and racial justice with over 15 years of experience. She is the Anti-Racism Policy Consultant at the TTC, a spoken word artist, and a former board member for Community Living Ontario.

Keya Osborne

Keya’s lived experience of losing her sight shaped her path into disability advocacy. She is a passionate advocate for racialized and disability communities, and brings a rare depth of lived and professional insight to accessibility work.

Nicole Yovanoff

Nicole brings over 25 years of experience in public service, political organizing, and community engagement. She takes a practical, relationship-centred approach to advancing equity.

Thriving employees build successful organizations.

We work with our clients to build diverse, equitable, inclusive, accessible, and anti-racist organizations where everyone can thrive. By changing systems, not just surface behaviours, we help create workplaces where people can bring their authentic selves to work.

We value respect and dignity for every person in the workplace.

These values guide our work from the first conversation to the final recommendation, and they shape every strategy we build.

We are a certified diverse supplier

One DEI Consulting is a CAMSC Certified Supplier, verified by the Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council as a diverse, minority-owned business.

For organizations with supplier diversity goals, this has a practical benefit: working with us can count toward your diverse spend commitments. It means the firm you bring in to build a more equitable workplace reflects that same commitment in how it is owned and run.

Not sure where your organization stands?

Start with our free DEIA Self-Assessment Checklist. In a few minutes, you will get a clearer picture of your organization’s strengths, gaps, and best next steps toward a more inclusive workplace.

DEIA Self-Assessment Checklist

Ready to build a workplace where everyone can thrive?

Let’s talk about your goals and where you are today. Book a free discovery call and we will show you what a path forward could look like.