Rita Alma is an organizational and certified leadership coach, conflict mediator, and equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) strategist who guides organizations and their leaders to foster positive and sustainable systemic change to strengthen employee and client experience, amplify social impact, and create cultures of learning and innovation that promote accessibility, equity and inclusion for all. Her specialties include leveraging EDI to strengthen cross-cultural and cross-functional collaboration, building buy-in for change across all leadership levels, coaching leaders to grow and implement inclusive management practices, growing team’s ability to navigate conflict and guiding them through the process of transforming their cultures. She is passionate about group facilitation and unearthing bias to leverage practices and systems that allow oppression to thrive into opportunities to enhance equity and success for all. During her spare time, she enjoys engaging in community healing and learning projects, swimming in lakes and oceans, singing, and cuddling her elderly pug, Pogo.