Meet Yeruwelle de Rouen | CEO & Founder

We had the good fortune of connecting with Yeruwelle de Rouen and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Yeruwelle, can you talk to us a bit about the social impact of your business?

The central values of our industrial work culture are: Divide, Compete, and Exploit. Intersectional Innovations exists to combat these divisive ethics and help work communities create well being, innovation and solution oriented cultures that proactively address systemic harm. This work affects systemic shifts in social equity through education and interdisciplinary methodologies of integration and collaborative leadership.

By facilitating communities, we empower voice and innovation, which support our outcomes for sincere inclusion and belonging. Through the EBI & DEI consulting process, we help companies improve culture, employee happiness, as well as their community reputation and online presence. This ultimately contributes to creating healthier and more productive organizational cultures, retaining talent, and reducing interpersonal conflict. Overall, our business’s work has a positive impact on the community and the world by promoting equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging in the workplace.

What should our readers know about your business?

Our success is driven by a combination of factors – a clear vision to help others create healthy work cultures, a unique approach, great dedication to social justice, innovation, and adaptability to changing circumstances.

Additionally, our firm’s work prioritizes collaboration and community engagement, which helps us stay relevant and responsive to the needs of our stakeholders. This ultimately contributes to creating healthier and more productive organizational cultures, retaining talent, and reducing interpersonal conflict. Overall, our business’s work has a positive impact on the community and the world by promoting equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging in the workplace.

In this regard, we have created a free resource “Restorative Meeting Guide” whose main aim is to change and help guide how companies and organizations run collaborative, inclusive and efficient meetings. This guide includes: a restorative meeting step by step checklist, tools to build trust, inclusive facilitation practices, and a guide to track and clarify decisions. We are absolutely confident that this guide will be a game changer for any company that wants to foster more output while nurturing lasting, productive relationships.

It is absolutely free to download and use at your next meeting. We’d love to hear how companies and organizations benefit by using this restorative meeting guide. https://intersectionalinnovations.systeme.io/restorative-meeting-guide

Any places to eat or things to do that you can share with our readers? If they have a friend visiting town, what are some spots they could take them to?
I live in Aurora and adore the local food and culture scene that is unique to the area. When family and friends visit we make sure to take them to breakfast at Milly’s Community Cafe for fun seasonal (coffee and tea) drinks and handmade goodies. For lunch we won’t miss the amazing tacos at Tacos El Metate (always super busy so you may want to order take out). To complete the Aurora food tour we will stuff ourselves at Golden Saigon where the fried dumplings are second to none, as are their unique Vietnamese-fusion dishes. Don’t forget dessert at Snowl, offering Korean treats galore.

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I am grateful and encouraged most by the relationships around me that alleviate my anxiety at failing through belief in my character and ideas. Shoutout to: my life partner and hubby, Ronan McConnon, for always helping me make a way towards success; and my assistant, Millie Ntinyari Bundi, who’s positivity for life is contagious.

I am always deeply grateful to my intellectual mentors and the prolific thinkers that provide inspiration and innovation regarding how we heal the divides amongst us. Most recent rereads and gratefulness to: James Baldwin (The Fire Next Time), Kim Crenshaw (Intersectional Theory), Adrienne Maree Brown (Emergent Strategy), and Riane Eisler (The Chalice and the Blade).

Website: https://www.intersectionalinnovations.com/

Instagram: @intersectionalinnovations

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yeruwellederouen/

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