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    "Connecticut Health Foundation sought Ritika's expertise to guide a Health Equity Collaborative through an emergent learning process and a two-day planning retreat. It was her first time working with our collaborative and the first time collaborative members had gone through this kind of learning and planning. Ritika was meticulous and thoughtful in her preparation for the sessions. During her facilitation, her empathy and advanced listening skills built a trusting space for us to get hard work accomplished. We are eager to collaborate with Ritika again, and are thankful that she is using her unique skillset to advance equity!"

    ELLEN CARTER,
    Vice President of Program, Connecticut Health Foundation

  • "Working with Ritika Kurup over this past year has been one of the best business decisions I have ever made. She has become a valuable partner to our rapidly expanding nonprofit. We have engaged with her on a few different levels: as a retreat facilitator, a consultant to our new leadership team, a coach to individual directors, a touchstone for me, and as a guide as we navigated the terrain of identifying and quantifying performance metrics. She has formalized our use of several tools that have become part of our organizational DNA, such as B/ART, and with her strong and steady hand, led us through the process of creating a comprehensive annual operating plan, training us along the way how to conduct this work on our own in the future. Ritika is kind, compassionate, and empathetic coupled with a fierce ability to keep our dynamic team focused, accountable, and on track. I will be sorry when our work together ends, and yet, she has made a huge imprint on our organization that will be felt well into the future."

    JENNIFER C. JACKSON,
    CEO, Arise Collective

  • "For almost as long as I’ve supported outcomes-focused partnerships, I’ve had the privilege of working with Ritika. Ritika has been a coach, helping me to diagnose complex issues and understand what roles I need to play. She’s co-designed and delivered training for teams that I’ve cared for. She’s visited with partnerships that I’ve supported to learn about our work and offered reflections on our progress toward racial and ethnic equity. She’s been an astute observer of what groups have needed, and has stepped in to name it. In each of the roles she has held, Ritika has been calm, kind, honest, and laser-focused on results. She has shared work, been deeply accountable for doing what she’s said she’ll do, and taught me a lot about how to share work and ask meaningful questions. And she is fun and really good at asking for and incorporating feedback!"

    DANYA PASTUSZEK,

    Co-CEO, Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement

  • "Ritika is an incredibly skilled facilitator who moved our group through a deliberate and results-oriented process with efficiency and professionalism. She guided our process beautifully and kept us accountable for meeting targeted outcomes. Her pre-work, research, and follow-up notes were extremely thorough and clear. We were amazed at the progress we made in such a short time, particularly given some difficult initial group conflicts. I would recommend Ritika without hesitation!"

    JENNIFER D. BARAHONA, LCSW
    CEO, Norwalk ACTS

  • "Ritika helped us develop and facilitate a three-part session focused on helping our community better understand systems change work. She was a fantastic partner who demonstrated a genuine interest in understanding our desires/needs as a community and enfolding that into the curriculum. She also served as a coach to our planning committee- her questions and feedback pushed us to test our own assumptions and ultimately created a higher-quality program. Working with Ritika was a true pleasure. Given the opportunity, I would work with her again and again. She makes teams better!"

    LAUREN KING,
    Director of Training and Evaluation, ImpactTulsa