Pillar 1
Culture Transformation
For teams ready to rebuild trust, strengthen relationships, and create conditions where people can thrive.
How We Support Your Work
At Relational Notions, we partner with you to design processes that are thoughtful, human, and grounded in equity. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, we partner with businesses and organizations across the U.S.
Our services are organized into three pillars that meet you where you are in your culture and change journey.
Pillar 2
Strategy & Leadership
For leaders navigating big decisions, new directions, and complex change with equity and care at the center.
Pillar 3
Learning & Co-Creation
For teams building shared language, skills, and practices to support equity, belonging, and collaboration.
Every organization is different, and so is every partnership. If you’re curious about working together, we’d love to learn more about your team, your context, and what you’re hoping to shift.
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Sample Engagements
A glimpse into how we’ve partnered with teams and organizations in different contexts.
Culture & Belonging
Building connection and shared practice across sites
Partnered with a multi-site community organization to develop a tailored training experience that strengthened relational skills and supported conversations grounded in cultural humility and accountability.
Strategy & Leadership
Guiding a Committee to shape organizational culture
Worked alongside a Diversity, Equity, and Belonging Committee to clarify their role, establish strategic priorities, and build the leadership practices needed to influence culture change across the organization.
Equity in Practice
Equity & belonging roadmap for a county health program
Worked with a county health team to translate equity and belonging commitments
into concrete practices, staff-led initiatives, and an actionable implementation plan.
Youth & Community Voice
Youth-led mental health storytelling campaign
Led the strategic framework and staff coaching for a youth-led media campaign that amplifies lived experience, challenges stigma, and connects young people to local mental health supports.
Why Organizations Choose Us
A relational, equity-centered process designed for meaningful and sustainable change.
1
We begin with people.
We create space to name realities, surface insights, and build trust.
Everything starts with listening — to leadership, staff, and those most impacted.
2
We ask the right questions.
Not to diagnose, but to understand. Curiosity leads the way as we learn your context,
hopes, tensions, and possibilities.
3
We co-design the approach.
Nothing is one-size-fits-all. Together, we shape the process, choosing the right mix
of listening, facilitation, coaching, and learning.
4
We walk with you through the work.
We don’t drop in with a plan and leave. We support you as you move through change,
navigate discomfort, and we help make the complex parts feel doable.
5
We support real, lasting change.
We focus on building trust, strengthening relationships, and aligning values with everyday
practice so the work continues long after we’re gone.
What It's Like to Work With Us
Leydy Islas
HR Manager
We are immensely grateful for the guidance and expertise Elsa has provided. They have helped us create an environment where every individual feels valued, respected, and empowered. We highly recommend their services to any organization seeking to foster a more inclusive and equitable workplace.
Jade Le
Former Program Manager
Elsa is very knowledgeable, attentive, and will adapt to support the growth of any agency's diversity and inclusion procedures, policies, and practices. Elsa constantly took all of our feedback around inclusion, diversity, equity, and action and did the best to ensure new materials reflected it. I appreciate the times Elsa grounded our conversations and reminded the team of the end goal with our trainings when the committee's ideas were either too far ahead or not building on already-created materials. Elsa valued creating workshops and materials that easily created a learning journey so that staff members from all levels and backgrounds could see the relations of the teachings.
Maximilian Orlando
Training Participant
Elsa has a sense of compassion and empathy that permeates throughout the entire lesson. Elsa's ability to create a comfortable and inclusive environment is also remarkable. I would gladly recommend Elsa to anyone who is seeking a knowledgeable and kind instructor.
Allison Downs
Director of Enterprise Systems & Grants
This was our organization's first time doing a training around diversity, equity, and inclusion for all staff. With thoughtful planning and collaboration, Elsa designed a comprehensive curriculum that established a strong foundation for our agency to build individual and collective awareness on how sensitive topics such as discrimination, bias, and microaggressions can show up in the workplace. Elsa created a safe and engaging experience for us to address sensitive topics and learn how we can show up for ourselves and our colleagues to ensure an equitable and inclusive environment.
Ready to explore working together?
If you’re looking for a partner to help your team move through change with clarity, equity, and care, we’d love to connect.
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