Hello, we are
Courageous Conversation®
We engage in sustained partnerships featuring training, coaching and consulting with organizations to transform beliefs, behaviors and results so people of all races can achieve at their highest levels and live their most empowered and powerful lives.
What Is Courageous Conversation®?
COURAGEOUS CONVERSATION® is our award-winning protocol for effectively engaging, sustaining and deepening interracial dialogue. Through our Framework for Systemic Racial Equity Transformation, we help individuals and organizations address persistent racial disparities intentionally, explicitly, and comprehensively.
The question we receive the most is:
“Why examine and address race?”
For us, there’s a simple answer for this:
Race matters.
Our Why
Race matters in our nation and around the world. It is critical that we address racial issues in order to uncover personal and institutional biases that prevent all people, and especially people of color, from reaching their fullest potential. COURAGEOUS CONVERSATION® serves as the essential strategy for systems and organizations to address racial disparities through safe, authentic and effective cross-racial dialogue.
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The link between
Courageous Conversation® and Pacific Educational Group.
Our Work
Pacific Educational Group is a consulting firm committed to forging racial equity. Over our nearly 30-year history, our mission has expanded from an original focus on transforming PreK-12 education and the United States to a broader scope of work that now addresses race in higher education, corporations, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and law enforcement in Canada, New Zealand and Australia as well.
We believe systemic racism is the most devastating factor contributing to the diminished capacity of all people—especially people of color and indigenous people—to achieve at the highest levels. It fractures our communities and erodes the support and nourishment we would otherwise receive from them. We cannot hope to eliminate the racially predictable outcomes of our lives unless we first discuss race and racism in a way that is earnest, honest and sustainable.

To that end, we have developed Courageous Conversation®, a process to understand and discuss race explicitly. Hundreds of thousands of people have learned the Courageous Conversation About Race Protocol™ from our diverse and dynamic staff.
These representatives of various professions, regions and life experiences work together to design curriculum, facilitate seminars and coach leaders to use Courageous Conversation® in their personal and professional lives.


These representatives of various professions, regions and life experiences work together to design curriculum, facilitate seminars and coach leaders to use Courageous Conversation® in their personal and professional lives.
Meet Our Team
EXECUTIVE

Glenn E. Singleton
Founder & President

Chris Lim
Chief of Staff

Kehaulani Haupu
Executive Director of PreK-12 District Partnerships

Luis Versalles
Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships

Ruby Ababio-Fernandez

Dallas Dance
ADMINISTRATIVE

Josina Bohmer-Tapia
Communications Coordinator

Chanel Burrell
Administrative Assistant II

Becky Grupe
Master Scheduler & Admin Support

Emelia Ho
Administrative Assistant of Marketing & Communications

Sheeri Mitchell
Executive Assistant to CEO

Marisa Narasaki
Executive Assistant to Education

Apelila Peniata
Executive Assistant to President
PROGRAMMING

Julia Berry
Equity Transformation Specialist

Courtney Caldwell
Equity Transformation Specialist

LaKeisha Cook
Equity Transformation Specialist

David Gonzales
Divisional Director of Certification Program

Andrea Johnson
Equity Transformation Specialist

Dawan Julien
Lead Equity Transformation Specialist

Madison Potts
Equity Transformation Associate

Stacey Taylor Brandon
Equity Transformation Specialist
OPERATIONS

Jeff Blaskower
Divisional Director of Technology

David Davidson
Special Projects Coordinator

Adrienne Edmands
Financial Controller

Ross Lim
Lead Tech Support Specialist