Gild Collective changes individual views and behaviors to shift workplace cultures and break down gender barriers.

From our foundation in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2015, Gild Collective has worked with over 16,000 women and men through our roots in leadership workshops and gender inclusion trainings.

And we’ve learned a few things:

We’ve learned that progress is slow, but possible.

We’ve learned that leadership buy-in is tricky, but critical.

We’ve learned that individual behaviors won’t change unless we change minds.

So we decided to work backwards. To break down gender barriers, we need to shift cultures. To shift cultures, we must change behaviors. To change behaviors we have to adjust views by adding empathy for another’s experience.

After recognizing empathy as the missing link in meaningful change, we created the Gender Inequity Simulator in 2019.

Through this interactive empathy-building activity, we motivate bias interruption at work. By meeting every participant where they are, we exchange ideas, celebrate ah-ha moments, and experience growth. The Gender Inequity Simulator is designed to:

  • Turn leadership buy-in from check-the-box to championing

  • Turn participation from passive to experiential 

  • Turn outcomes from concepts to empathy

  • Turn action from “I’ll get to it someday” to “what can I do now?”


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