Aim From Your CORE

Second Layer Consulting is all about aiming from the core.  
Centering - Individuals, teams, and organizations have the right to start where they are using radical curiosity to build awareness.
Opportunistic - Change brings continuous improvement.
Reflecting - Individuals, teams, and organizations will practice internal assessment and model external behaviors.
Engaging - It is time to lean into your greatness.

Our Approach

Our "aim from your CORE" motto is a metaphor for how we offer a wholistic approach when assisting you or your team with diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and race education efforts. When thinking about your core in a physical sense, it is the center of your body that provides balance and stability. Strengthening your core helps you to become more well-rounded and harmonized with the rest of your body. Having a solid core also makes it easier to do other activities. All of these core benefits throughout your body also apply to how using our core approach will benefit your life and those around you in numerous ways, especially from a diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and race perspective.

Our Experience | Est. 2007

Richard Webb is the Principal Consultant for Second Layer Consulting. He has worked in different capacities training and facilitating experiences that support successful racial and multicultural inclusiveness within diverse environments. He has worked in educational, corporate and nonprofit institutions as an innovator, bridge builder, voice and practitioner. He uses developmental approaches that yield demonstrated behavioral outcomes for individuals and organizations that are goal driven and multicultural/racial proactive and responsive.  Richard as an administrator, instructor, coach, trainer, and consultant, has a gift in focusing on the strengths of his clients and communicates how their set of unique qualities contribute to leadership development and management performance. He is known for his expertise and strategic use of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) in leadership development of individuals and teams, as well as in enhancing organizations’ Diversity and Inclusion strategies. He is valued by his clients for designing and facilitating authentic and positive learning environments that support awareness, growth, and transformation.
 
Richard received his Bachelor of Arts in General Studies with an emphasis in Ethnic Studies from the University of Northern Iowa and Master's of Arts in Education with emphasis in Leadership from Augsburg College.
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Our Goal

Allow individuals, teams, and organizations to start where they are with respect to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging. We will collaborate together to assess, plan, practice, evaluate, grow, and achieve results. We place value with each person, and given access to resources, support and time to develop will result in higher engagement, effective change, and increased and sustainable performance.

Why Second Layer?

The developmental nature of our approach allows us to mix challenging content, that helps participants learn new content, with active experiential learning techniques that challenge participants to develop new skills and competencies in a way that comfortably makes participants feel uncomfortable enough to be challenged, stretch, and grow. ​We know that individuals and organizations want to excel in regards to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and race. We believe everyone has the right to start where they are. Through an organic human-centered developmental set of approaches, we strive to lead with experiential learning techniques that embrace and challenge every participant to develop new skills and hone competencies that use discomfort to grow and excel in their environment.

Our Partners

Richard Webb
Lead Consultant

For over 20 years, Richard has worked in different capacities training and facilitating experiences that support successful racial and multicultural inclusiveness within diverse environments. ​He is valued by his clients for designing and facilitating authentic and positive learning environments that support awareness, growth, and transformation.

He received his Bachelor of Arts in General Studies with an emphasis in Ethnic Studies from the University of Northern Iowa and Masters of Arts in Education with emphasis in Leadership from Augsburg College.

Carrie Carroll
Partner

Carrie is committed to building interculturally competent leaders. She consults with individuals, organizations and businesses as a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI). She also serves on the White Bear Lake Area Education Foundation Board and on the AMAZE works Board—positions which further reinforce her commitment to education. 
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Carrie has a BA from Hamline University and an MA in leadership from Augsburg University. 

Pastor Kelly Chatman
​​Partner

Pastor Kelly Chatman is the Executive Director of the Center for Leadership and Neighborhood Engagement, a North Minneapolis-based nonprofit whose vision is to mobilize congregations and leaders as powerful neighborhood-based agents for positive social change. Prior to launching the CLNE in March of 2020, he served for 20 years as pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church and as Executive Director of Redeemer Center for Life, both partners in the Harrison neighborhood of North Minneapolis.

​Kelly holds a Master of Divinity from Gettysburg Seminary in Gettysburg, PA and a bachelor’s degree from Concordia University in St. Paul, MN. He is married to the amazing Dr. Cheryl Chatman who served as Executive Vice President and Dean at Concordia University in St Paul, Minnesota.