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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Professionally, Arc Telos spent over ten years as a national executive business developer, opening new businesses all over the US. Following this, Arc Telos spent another ten years as an executive leader in the non-profit field, leading organizations through-out the nation centering Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) practices and using trauma-informed and intersectionality-based frameworks.
Currently they are the Executive Director of Youth MOVE National, deeply involved in youth advocacy and engagement, and the CEO of AT Consulting, as well as involved in several boards (Black and Pink, ForYouPage.Org, Unified Youth). Telos is of course more than just their career and identities. 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), and absolutely refusing to be anyone other than Princess Peach in Mario Kart or Mario Party.
Arc Telos Saint Amour (they/them) is a neurodivergent, autistic, disabled, queer and trans, Two-Spirit, gender non-conforming person of Mexican Native Indigenous descent (Coahuiltecan), and a victim/survivor of childhood trauma who deeply believes in self-agency and bodily autonomy. They are formerly gang-involved, justice system impacted, and consider themselves to be a peer supporter and a harm reductionist as part of their co-occurring serious mental illness and substance use recovery journey. This lived and living experience has led them to a deep belief in Native Indigenous Animism, radical empathy, and the power of holistic affirmation.
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.