Strategic Development for Leaders and Organizations

Persley Advisors leverages the power of Cultural Competence to support leaders and organizations in maximizing their impact

What we do

Our Approach

We help organizational leaders optimize their impact by unlocking and leveraging the superpowers of their talent through leadership coaching, training, and the creation and execution of strategic projects.

Our approach centers on Cultivating Cultural Competence, which drives optimal organizational results.

Persley Advisors helps organizations drive talent and leadership development through comprehensive support, customized tools, and training that holistically transform leadership and organizational practices.

Our Services

Customized Strategic Projects

We support with the creation and execution of events, programs, and initiatives that strategically align with leaders’ organizational mission, vision, and goals.

Persley Advisors provides strategies and supports for clients that are intentionally customized for the specific needs and points of impact of each client. Persley Advisors consistently measures impact and uses data while leveraging key stakeholder feedback to guide project development and execution.

Leadership Coaching

Persley Advisors provides leadership coaching for leaders and aspiring leaders. We coach around high-impact strategies, tools, and mindsets that allow leaders to effectively lead their teams and achieve transformational personal and organizational goals that positively impact outcomes for themselves, those they lead, and the organization at large.

Speaking and Training

Dr. Brown Persley and her team of advisors customize speaking engagement topics and training structures based on organizational needs and goals. This includes:

Keynote talks and training for established and emerging leaders with customized support and strategies that accelerate realizing organizational goals.
In addition to custom training, we provide two hallmark training and keynote talks.
- Delivering Dignity: A Guide to Cultivating Culturally Competent Organizations.
- Cultivating Clarity helps leaders center on creating clear expectations for those they lead. This training and keynote talk guides leaders on developing systems to ensure strong execution and follow-through of the expectations they set forth.

Organizational Leadership Audits

Persley Advisors provides targeted organizational leadership audits to assess areas of success that can be amplified and leveraged, opportunities for improvement, and suggestions for innovation within the organization.

Dr. Kirsten Brown Persley on
Dignity-Centered Leadership

Dr. Kirsten Brown Persley speaks at SXSW 2024.

Delivering Dignity: A Guide to Cultivating Culturally Competent Organizations

by Dr. Kirsten Brown Persley

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Prioritizing cultural competence as an organizational leader is much more than just another initiative to add to your list or another box to check. When people feel invested in, cared for, and valued authentically, so much is possible. Even more empowering is when these feelings are continually and intentionally reinforced through your organization’s decisions and actions, resulting in greater employee engagement and retention, more space for innovation and growth, a strong sense of employee ownership, and so much more.

That’s important, surely, but so is this: we know this is the right way to treat people, and we know we need to do better. But with cultural competence so full of complexities–and with dignity such an intangible—how do we go from ideas to actions? From conceptual to practical?

Delivering Dignity provides a roadmap of strategies to accomplish just that, serving as your guide to understanding not only the why behind this work but also how to deploy its power within your organization. With a combination of personal stories, practical examples, and actionable tools, Dr. Kirsten Brown Persley offers the context and resources you need to start delivering dignity today.

Dr. Kirsten Brown Persley

Founder and CEO, Persley Advisors

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Dr. Kirsten Brown Persley is the author of Delivering Dignity: A Guide to Cultivating Cultural Competence and the Founder and CEO of Persley Advisors, a strategic advising firm that focuses on supporting organizational leaders through strategic project support, training, consulting, and coaching rooted in the power of cultural competence. She has over a decade of experience leading transformative initiatives rooted in dignity and cultural competence.

Kirsten Brown Persley formerly served as the Executive Director of a nonprofit in Kansas City, where she led a successful relaunch of the Kansas City market and led strategies and initiatives to increase cultural competence, diversity, and belonging in corporations and small and mid-size businesses.

Before working as a nonprofit leader, Dr. Brown Persley served as a Founding Principal for five years. As a founding school leader, Dr. Brown Persley managed a team of teachers, support staff members, and administrators, and she launched two school concepts. During her tenure, she helped the school secure funding. She also developed innovative programs that fostered community engagement, strategic partnerships, and authentic/real-world learning opportunities for students and staff, all while fostering a staff and student culture rooted in dignity and cultural competence.

Dr. Brown Persley earned a doctorate from the University of Kansas (KU) in May 2023. During her time at KU, she studied and researched effective leadership.

In 2021, Dr. Brown Persley was recognized as a NextGen Leader by the Kansas City Business Journal, and she was selected as an official speaker at SXSW 2024.

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Contact Persley Advisors today to learn how we can support your organization in achieving transformational outcomes!