Dear Mixed Girl® Services & Learning Solutions
Helping People and Organizations Grow with Identity, Understanding, and Purpose
Dear Mixed Girl® provides research-informed coaching, professional learning, training, facilitation, consulting, keynote speaking, and educational resources for individuals, families, professionals, teams, and organizations.
Founded and led by Dr. KayLa N. Allen-Young, our work strengthens identity development, cultural proficiency, emotional intelligence, communication, belonging, and human-centered leadership across family, educational, workplace, healthcare, nonprofit, corporate, and community settings.
Our services are designed for:
- Biracial and mixed-race girls and the people raising them
- Professionals who serve children, youth, and families
- Managers, supervisors, executives, educators, clinicians, and organizational leaders
- Teams and institutions seeking practical, accountable, and sustainable growth
- Organizations responding to workplace culture concerns, complaints, investigations, corrective-action requirements, or settlement-related learning needs
Engagements may be delivered virtually or in person and are customized according to the audience, organizational context, learning objectives, required outcomes, and scope of work.
Core Service Offerings
Keynote Speaking
Compelling, customized keynote presentations that combine lived experience, public-health scholarship, organizational insight, and practical strategies.
Dr. KayLa equips audiences to strengthen identity, belonging, emotional intelligence, cultural proficiency, resilience, and leadership. Keynotes are available for conferences, associations, corporations, healthcare organizations, schools, universities, nonprofits, government-related events, and professional learning convenings.
Workshops and Facilitation
Interactive workshops and facilitated conversations help participants move beyond passive awareness and apply new knowledge to real situations.
Sessions may include guided reflection, case-based learning, facilitated dialogue, scenario practice, leadership exercises, action planning, and tools participants can use after the engagement.
Workshops are available for teams, leadership groups, educators, clinicians, boards, families, youth-serving professionals, conference audiences, and community organizations.
Consulting and Strategic Advising
Strategic guidance for organizations strengthening culture, communication, leadership practices, learning systems, belonging, family engagement, or organizational response following conflict or harm.
Consulting engagements may include:
- Organizational needs assessment
- Learning and training strategy
- Customized curriculum development
- Culture and communication review
- Stakeholder and leadership guidance
- Corrective-learning recommendations
- Program and resource development
- Implementation support
- Follow-up evaluation and continuous-improvement planning
Each engagement is structured around the organization’s goals, documented needs, authority boundaries, and desired outcomes.
Coaching
Identity Development Coaching
Strengths-based identity development for biracial and mixed-race girls ages 12–18 who are learning to understand, claim, and confidently express every part of who they are.
Parenting Leadership Coaching
Practical, culturally informed guidance for parents, grandparents, guardians, and chosen family members raising mixed-race children.
Executive and Professional Development Coaching
High-touch coaching for professionals and organizational leaders strengthening emotional intelligence, cultural proficiency, ethical decision-making, communication, executive presence, and sustainable professional practice.
Educational Resources and Curriculum-Based Offerings
Dear Mixed Girl® develops learning materials that help individuals and organizations continue applying the work beyond a coaching session, workshop, or training event.
Offerings may include:
- Downloadable guides and reflection tools
- Family learning resources
- Facilitator guides
- Leadership and professional-development materials
- Customized organizational toolkits
- Training curricula and participant workbooks
- Train-the-trainer resources
- Structured educational programs and courses
Selected resources will become available through the Dear Mixed Girl® online store. Customized materials may also be developed as part of a contracted organizational engagement.
EEOC and Workplace Training:
Workplace Culture, Civil Rights, and Corrective Learning
General awareness training is not always enough.
When an organization is responding to a workplace complaint, investigation, settlement, conciliation agreement, consent decree, documented culture concern, or corrective-action requirement, the educational response must connect directly to the behaviors, leadership responsibilities, organizational conditions, and required outcomes involved.
Dear Mixed Girl® develops customized, evidence-informed workplace learning that helps organizations strengthen understanding, improve supervisory practices, rebuild trust, and reduce the conditions that allow discrimination, harassment, retaliation, exclusion, communication failures, or cultural harm to persist.
Engagements may include:
- Discrimination, harassment, and retaliation prevention
- Manager and supervisor responsibility training
- Respectful workplace expectations
- Complaint-response and escalation awareness
- Cultural proficiency and identity-informed leadership
- Communication, trust, and psychological safety
- Bias-informed decision-making
- Accountability following organizational harm
- Corrective training aligned with approved settlement or conciliation requirements
- Customized participant materials and leadership tools
- Train-the-trainer preparation
- Follow-up learning, evaluation, and implementation support
Programs may be delivered as a single training, a multi-session learning series, a leadership intensive, a train-the-trainer engagement, or a broader organizational-development initiative.
Important Scope Notice
Dear Mixed Girl® provides educational, training, coaching, facilitation, consulting, and organizational-development services. These services do not constitute legal advice, legal representation, an independent workplace investigation, or certification of legal compliance.
When an engagement arises from a legal or regulatory matter, the training scope is developed from the client’s authorized requirements and, when appropriate, in coordination with legal counsel, settlement administrators, human-resources leadership, or other approved organizational representatives.
Specialty Areas
Our work may be customized across the following interconnected areas:
Identity Development for Biracial Girls Ages 12–18 · Parenting Leadership for Parents Raising Mixed-Race Children · Cultural Proficiency · Belonging and Inclusion · Emotional Intelligence · Communication and Trust · Organizational Culture · Women’s Leadership · Youth and Family Engagement · Healthcare Learning · Educational Leadership · Nonprofit and Community Development · Corporate and Workplace Learning
Best-Fit Clients and Partners
Dear Mixed Girl® is best aligned with organizations and individuals committed to meaningful learning, responsible leadership, and measurable growth, including:
Corporate Organizations · Healthcare Systems · Schools and Universities · Nonprofits and Community Organizations · Youth- and Family-Serving Agencies · Families Raising Biracial Teenageers· Government Contractors and Public-Sector Partners · Law Firms and Settlement-Related Stakeholders · Conferences, Associations, and Professional Events