Mind Heart for Diversity Consulting, LLC was founded by Dr. Thomas RaShad Easley. After Easley’s extensive academic experience with land-grant institutions and Ivy League institutions, he stepped out to form MH4D.
For 20 years while Easley was working as a forester and diversity professional, he learned and immediately applied diversity, equity and inclusion principles to enhance his work experience, his relationships, and clients that was supporting.
After years of success from public speaking, entrepreneurship, organizational planning, and moving through the academy, Easley has created his consultancy that is centered in reciprocity, real-life experience, scholarship, and adult development.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Dr. Thomas RaShad Easley
When I first began this work, I did not anticipate how identity would be the aspect that guides how we show up in the world, work with others, and understand other people. My career started as forestry professional getting into diversity because as I was switching fields, I thought I was taking my skills to a university setting to assist with recruiting individuals that looked like me.
After I became in the work, I then realized that I wasn’t switching careers, but I was enhancing one set of skills with a new understanding of my identity and how I show up in society. My identity is what was either threatened or affirmed depending on the work environment I was in and the mental/emotional space I was dwelling in. If I am insecure about my abilities then I am not going to give my best nor visualize my best when I am consumed with someone’s else perception of me. The internal work that is required to lead a team or remain in challenging spaces while maintaining perspective and caring for self is constant work.
