Welcome to Abundant Sun

“Firms with more cross-boundary collaboration achieve greater customer loyalty and higher margins.* Heidi Gardner, Harvard, “Cross-Silo Leadership,” Harvard Business Review 2019

Whether you’re an organization, company or community, now is the time to radiate just, ethical, diverse, inclusive and positive environments where people can thrive and evolve.

We are visionary leaders, critical thinkers and systemic thinkers. We unearth the root causes of organizational challenges and find opportunities for our clients and their people to shine.

Interested in creating a culture that lives up to what you say and what you wish to be?

Hit the road

Transforming cultures is challenging. We’ve developed an E.P.I.C. Journey, Ethical Performance Improvement Campaign, a strategic methodology based on data and science, to help catalyze organizations to build better cultures from within:

Ethical – we believe that to maximize diversity, organizations need strong values-driven climates.

Performance – to matter, organizations need to be high performing.

Improvement – organizations need to be agile to stay in step with an everchanging world.

Campaign – transforming culture isn’t a quick fix. Our work is a collective, long-term effort to create sustainable change.

It’s a journey, not a jaunt.

To help ensure sustainable transformation, we immerse ourselves in our clients’ organizations to gather data, identify strengths and weaknesses and help forge healthy, supportive relationships across silos.

E.P.I.C. outcomes include:

  • shared responsibility for culture
  • improved leadership development
  • more defined employee and board member engagement
  • enhanced knowledge sharing
  • more opportunities for innovation
  • a greater ability to respond thoughtfully and critically to changes that have a business impact

“Abundant Sun offers a team with deep experience, skilled at utilizing data and analytics to identify
strengths and opportunities in your organization. Evolving, defining and/or addressing culture in an
organization is a challenging undertaking and our partnership with Abundant Sun provided us with
the framework for bringing structure and progress to the ever-changing topic of culture.”

– Head of People and Culture of Vermont Energy Investment Corporation (VEIC)

We’re glad you’ve arrived. Contact us to find out what makes us shine.

Reset Your Approach To Diversity

Our CEO wrote this book. Her fundamental PhD research question was “Why have the diversity management strategies and initiatives of the mid-20th century not yielded significantly the type of social change they were intended to create?”. And more importantly, who do we still practice them? Something was, and is still amiss and it has to give. This is explored in Dismantling Diversity Management.

Dismantling Diversity Management emphasizes the vital importance of ethical and values-driven leadership and of living, not just spouting out, corporate values. It provides a valuable contribution to the international field of diversity management as it highlights the key flaws in traditional diversity management thinking. It presents a clear picture of the barriers in place which make it difficult to achieve desired outcomes within organizations and society. This book is a courageous and refreshing look at diversity. It not only provides a bold critique of how corporate structure has co-opted people into a diversity management model which perpetuates, rather than, transforms the status quo, it also maps out how to break this ineffective cycle.

Dismantling Diversity Management will be of interest to organizational development professionals, diversity and inclusion practitioners, senior executive officers and human resource and talent management professionals. It may not be what you want to hear, but it is what we all have to figure out how to do.

Take the first step on a new journey. Purchase it here.

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We are so pleased to work in partnership with Vermont Business for Social Responsibility. We brought a well thought out comprehensive educational experience to companies interested in improving not just their diversity numbers, but their overall ethical leadership and organizational cultures. E.P.I.C. is an acronym for Ethical Performance Improvement Campaign.

Thank you to all of the organizations who participated in this joint effort. We learned a lot during our time together, and are looking forward to bringing a new and improved series to other member organizations like VBSR.

More amazingly, since then VBSR and Abundant Sun have become founding organizations of The Vermont Prosperity Project. Don’t just check out this network of networks, get involved and work with us to continue to effect positive and health change.

Tap below to find out more about the E.P.I.C. Education Series