Education and Training

Our goal is to help leaders grow their capacity as inclusive community builders. Toward this end, we have developed a series of workshops designed for educators and professional leaders, as well as CEO’s, managers, and business owners, with the promise of enhancing their personal value and self-efficacy as meaningful contributors to a positive social-cultural climate. Pursuant to participation in our workshops sessions, attendees will walk away with the tools to foster connections through healthy engagement within their respective stakeholder communities that include clients, employees, teachers and students, faculty and staff, vendors, investors, and potential partners.

Course & Workshop Topics

Social Emotional Learning


The goal of the training is to provide educators with best practices that facilitate social-emotional learning and orient students as social and academic achievers. The training is designed to cultivate mindful educators who create a positive teaching and learning culture that builds connections and minimizes conflicts within classroom spaces. | 

120 minutes or full day


CulturalLy  Responsive Teaching


During the training, educators gain strategies for ensuring diversity and cultural relevance in planning, instructional delivery, assessments, and classroom management. The training is designed to build teachers’ capacity as culturally responsive educators, who every day, raise the potential of their students as social and academic achievers inside and outside the classroom. | 120 minutes or full day


Client TESTIMONIAL

" Well versed in the research of social emotional learning and culturally responsive teaching, in addition to her celebrated and impenetrable commitment to the Crisp County community, Ritchey was the unquestionable choice to engage and train our frontline educators.” 


Dr. Brandon Williams, Asst Superintendent

Crisp County School System


THE MENTORING LEADER™


This course describes the role of leaders as mentors in the workplace. In this instance, the mentor is a significant personality recognized as a guide who helps to facilitate mentees’ continual growth and development through a community building process. The course introduces the concept that everyone is a mentee and mentor, at once—concurrent learners and dispensers of knowledge. An important outcome of this course is that participants recognize their own potential and the potential of all members within workplace communities as leaders, in particular mentoring leaders. | 90 minutes or full day.


CULTURAL RELEVANCE:
ERADICATING LINES OF CULTURAL DIVIDE


This workshop is designed to help participants expand their cultural capital and their capacity toward developing harmonious relationships with other people, who are culturally different from themselves. | 90 minutes



DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TRAINING

 

The goal of the Training is to help build capacity among leaders toward fostering a culture of diversity, equity inclusion, and accessibility within the workplace. The Training introduces The Ellison Model as a resource for understanding and eliminating biases when building an inclusive community. In addition to being mindful of the unique diversities of community members, Leaders learn to implement unifying strategies that move their team beyond the point of difference to create sustainable connections that allows each member of the team feel included and valued.

| 90 minutes or full day




DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TRAINING

 

The goal of the Training is to help build capacity among leaders toward fostering a culture of diversity, equity inclusion, and accessibility within the workplace. The Training introduces The Ellison Model as a resource for understanding and eliminating biases when building an inclusive community. In addition to being mindful of the unique diversities of community members, Leaders learn to implement unifying strategies that move their team beyond the point of difference to create sustainable connections that allow each member of the team to feel included and valued.  | 90 minutes or full day



Client TESTIMONIAL

"After this Training, my eyes are opened to new ways of looking at the world. It is so refreshing to experience proactive solutions. It could not have come at a better time in my life, both personally and professionally. One would think that at 42 years old, I would have my life figured out, but I now know that no one ever knows and also, we can only do what we can do. It gets overwhelming to try and “change the world”, but this training showed me that we have to do our part.  This training is like a warm hug of humanity and hope! "


Sarah P., Mgt Analyst

State of Kentucky


NEW HIRE ONBOARDING


The New Hire workshop is designed to equip participants with basic concepts, strategies, and techniques for on-the-job success. The workshop helps participants develop their “people skills” and helps to ensure that their new employees are more likely to work and interact well with others.

|  12 hours total



COMMUNICATING WITH LITERACIES OF

POWER™


Every environment has its own culture with conventional rules for engagement, sometimes referred to as politics of space or literacies of power. Literacies of power refer to the use of acceptable verbal and non-verbal behaviors toward gaining trust, qualifying personal value, and accessing opportunity, including upward mobility. In this course, attendees will evaluate their personal verbal and non-verbal behaviors and consider how these may affect their own position within a particular space. Participants will also identify general literacies of power within community and work-place environments. | 90 minutes or full day.



NEW HIRE ONBOARDING


The New Hire workshop is designed to equip participants with basic concepts, strategies, and techniques for on-the-job success. The workshop helps participants develop their “people skills” and helps to ensure that their new employees are more likely to work and interact well with others. |  12 hours total



COMMUNICATING WITH LITERACIES OF

POWER™


Every environment has its own culture with conventional rules for engagement, sometimes referred to as politics of space or literacies of power. Literacies of power refer to the use of acceptable verbal and non-verbal behaviors toward gaining trust, qualifying personal value, and accessing opportunity, including upward mobility. In this course, attendees will evaluate their personal verbal and non-verbal behaviors and consider how these may affect their own position within a particular space. Participants will also identify general literacies of power within community and work-place environments. | 90 minutes or full day.


Client TESTIMONIAL

 "The New Hire onboarding training by A Ritch Enterprise was quite comprehensive and uniquely tailored for our new expansion venture. The presentation of material was extremely informative and easy to follow. The presenters provided our new hires with a holistic view of the overall objective of our establishment to maintain our 5- star rating in the marketplace."


 "The impact of the training was that it gave us a more enlightened staff, who became motivated to go the extra mile for our clients and to support our mission to provide heart-felt service and an inclusive social climate that will yield company growth."


Linda Barnes Ellison, Owner/Hotelier

The Unity House Bed & Breakfast


ADDING PERSONAL VALUE


Beyond the merit individuals may ascribe to themselves, personal value often results from the ways in which one is read, interpreted, and evaluated by others. This workshop uniquely defines value as one’s ability to impact, influence, and create positive change within his or her environment. After examining various levels of identity (self, subject, and agent), participants will walk away with strategies for enhancing perceived value, thus adding to their personal value. | 90 minutes or full day.


BUILDING A DREAM TEAM USING A HIP HOP FRAMEWORK™


Relevance, environment, and movement (REM™) are team-building essentials that in many cases are disregarded by leaders seeking to build a solid team. In conjunction with REM, this workshop introduces participants to the four primary elements of hip hop to show how these art forms help to serve as a collective tool for strategically designing a cohesive unit within the workplace.

| 90 minutes or full day



ADDING PERSONAL VALUE


Beyond the merit individuals may ascribe to themselves, personal value often results from the ways in which one is read, interpreted, and evaluated by others. This workshop uniquely defines value as one’s ability to impact, influence, and create positive change within his or her environment. After examining various levels of identity (self, subject, and agent), participants will walk away with strategies for enhancing perceived value, thus adding to their personal value. | 

 90 minutes or full day.


BUILDING A DREAM TEAM USING A HIP HOP FRAMEWORK™


Relevance, environment, and movement (REM™) are team-building essentials that in many cases are disregarded by leaders seeking to build a solid team. In conjunction with REM, this workshop introduces participants to the four primary elements of hip hop to show how these art forms help to serve as a collective tool for strategically designing a cohesive unit within the workplace. | 90 minutes or full day


Client TESTIMONIALS

 "Your presentation, Beyond the Hustle: Flexing the Leadership Muscle, reinforced my desire and efforts to lead, to encourage, and to cultivate the giftings/talents in those who report to me as we work to meet the goals and objectives of our unit. This is also how I desire to be led."   

                                                                                                                                                 Anonymous, HBCU Administrator




 "During this session, At True North: Finding Resolution to Conflict, learned that conflict is not always negative, and can be viewed from a positive perspective. When viewed through positive eyes, the resolution is valued and the road to conflict resolution can be traveled; the same when dealing with others not only in the workplace but in one’s personal life."


                                                                                                                                              Anonymous, Strada Ed Net Affiliate




Beyond to Hustle:

FLEXING THE LEADERSHIP MUSCLE

This workshop is designed to help expand the community of engaging, empowering, AND encouraging leaders, who build sustain thriving institutions, corporations, and teams. During this workshop,

participants will become more aware of how self-identity Impacts approaches to leadership and leaders’ ability to successfully navigate change within their respective organizations. After this workshop, participants will walk away equipped with concrete strategies derived from The Ellison Model (TEM), with which, leaders will advance in their capacity to guide their organizational teams from where they are to an elevated advantageous position. 90 minutes or full day.


At True North:

Finding Resolution to Conflict

This workshop provides a fresh perspective for defining conflict, fundamentally as the distance between two points. Within this framework, resolution is necessary to prevent both ends from understanding the

world only through a self-centered lens that gives rise to exclusion and division. Participants are introduced to a Conflict Compass™ which helps to locate the position individuals land on a given conflict plane, whether at proactive, inactive, reactive, and active. After working through conflict ridden scenarios, participants are empowered with community building tools of caring, sharing, loving, trust, honor, and respect as strategies for helping individuals find True North, the point of resolution.

90 minutes or full day.


ADDING PERSONAL VALUE


Beyond the merit individuals may ascribe to themselves, personal value often results from the ways in which one is read, interpreted, and evaluated by others. This workshop uniquely defines value as one’s ability to impact, influence, and create positive change within his or her environment. After examining various levels of identity (self, subject, and agent), participants will walk away with strategies for enhancing perceived value, thus adding to their personal value. | 

 90 minutes or full day.


BUILDING A DREAM TEAM USING A HIP HOP FRAMEWORK™


Relevance, environment, and movement (REM™) are team-building essentials that in many cases are disregarded by leaders seeking to build a solid team. In conjunction with REM, this workshop introduces participants to the four primary elements of hip hop to show how these art forms help to serve as a collective tool for strategically designing a cohesive unit within the workplace. | 90 minutes or full day