Work with Arc Telos Consulting!
Arc Telos offers a wide range of keynote speeches, professional development trainings, workshops, presentations, and more. Whether you need someone for your conference, board room, non-profit organization, or just some individual coaching and consulting, ATC has you covered on a variety of topics for all different audiences.
Arc Telos has worked with a broad set of clients from Pinterest, Johnson & Johnson, Pepsi, ACLU, and numerous other for-profit and nonprofit organizations, universities and schools, state and federal governments and entities, conferences, and more!
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To learn more, reach out today at info@arctelosconsulting.com
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Telos spent over ten years in the national for-profit industry as an upper level manager/director and business developer opening start-ups and working with established organizations to expand into new territories all over the US. Following this, Telos spent another ten years active in the non-profit field, working with organizations throughout Chicago, New York, Vermont, California, and Michigan centering Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) practices and using trauma-informed and intersectionality based frameworks. Today they serve as a national speaker, trainer and education, and as the Executive Director of Youth MOVE National.
Telos is of course more than just their career and identities. Telos is vegan and practices Indigenous Animalism and Unitarian Universalism. They are deeply passionate about all genres of music, documentaries, hiking and other outdoor adventures (in which they are infamous for achieving minor injuries and the loss of shoes), hanging with their partner, three kids, and their two pets (Jeffrey the Pug and Rue the Ragdoll Rescue Cat), absolutely refusing to be anyone other than Princess Peach in Mario Kart or Mario Party, and consider themselves to be within the top 100 of all time high context ramblers that have an opinion on just about anything and everything.
Arc Telos Saint Amour (they/them/their), or Tay for short, is a neurodivergent, autistic, queer and trans, fat, gender non-conforming person of Mexican Indigenous descent (Coahuiltecan), and a childhood victim/survivor of trauma who deeply believes in active listening and the power of holistic affirmation and self-agency.
About The Work:
Starting my career building businesses across the nation gave me unique insight into every facet of for-profit work. So although I deeply believe in the intrinsic value of social justice and equity work, I can also walk you through the business case of why it’s important to your bottom line and future profits too.
Now being a leader in the nonprofit world, I also have unique insight into the complicated and delicate balance of finding unrestricted funds while appeasing donors, going after fee for service work while still trying to stay mission aligned to your core values, and how scope creep and burnout can affect organizational climate and culture, and staff who are already underpaid but moving forward because of their inherent passion for the work. I can help you with this too!
Broadly, the tools I use and practice are servant leadership approaches utilizing a harm-reduction model (not a deficit model), collective impact and positive system change theory, an intersectional and critical equity lens, healthy feedback loops with active and constructive listening techniques, and a radical lean into empathic and vulnerable communication that is open, honest, and transparent, and centers personal accountability and growth among all parties.
Lastly, it is vital we don't lose the fun, joy, and humor that comes with being beautiful and unique. It is just as important to celebrate and laugh as it is to educate and liberate. Social justice is a journey and whether you are walking your path or running, at the start or miles in, I am here to support you, guide you, and cheer you on.
Coming from historically, and still presently, excluded identities and communities, I know first hand the interpersonal and systemic oppressions that marginalized individuals and communities face. It’s my life’s work to ensure people are seen, validated, and celebrated for being who they are, their identities and their lived experiences fully embraced in order to honor individuals full holistic and authentic selves, as we work to liberate them from, and dismantle, the systems that seek to prevent that, while reducing harm now and honoring the earth and land all around us.