Change Cadet

Change Cadet is an organizational development and change management consulting firm. We offer a broad array of services that support embedding anti-racism, diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging into overall organizational identity & strategy.

Services are available for organizations in all sectors and industries, and include strategic planning and advising, data-driven assessments and analytics, executive coaching, and educational training.


Change Cadet’s Mission and Values

Our Mission

Change Cadet provides individuals and companies with services that support embedding anti-racism, diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging into overall organizational identity & strategy.

Our Values

  • Celebrate the little wins

  • Apology is power

  • Practice ACT (Accountability, Communication, Transparency)

  • Rest is part of the resistance

  • Keep being amazing

  • Anti-racism is fundamental to everything

  • Dismantle white supremacy

  • Willingness to learn and unlearn

  • Honor intersectionality

  • Reconnect to joy

  • Lead with integrity

Our Approach

Change Cadet takes the time and effort to understand your personal or organization’s dynamic and how it contributes to the environment with respect to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. By understanding the specific dynamic, we can create custom, non-prescriptive approaches to individual and group behavior to ensure change.

Dr. Akilah Cadet

Dr. Akilah Cadet is the Founder and CEO of Change Cadet, an organizational development consulting firm that offers services that support embedding belonging into overall company culture, identity and strategy. As a Forbes Next 1000 Entrepreneur her work is behind some of the biggest brands you use everyday. Dismantling white supremacy through storytelling is at the core of her work as a leader, speaker, creative director, producer, writer, editor, co-owner of the Oakland Roots and Soul soccer teams, and author of White Supremacy is All Around: Notes From a Black Disabled Woman in a White World. Dr. Cadet holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Education in Community Based Public Health, a Master of Public Health, and a Doctorate of Health Sciences in Leadership and Organizational Behavior. She lives in and loves Oakland, CA, celebrates her disability, is a proud Beyoncé advocate, and has an incredible shoe game.


White Supremacy is All Around: Notes From a Black Disabled Woman in a White World

See the Features page to see the latest press about the book and conversations with Dr. Akilah Cadet discussing important topics addressed in the book, including disability as a Black woman, the health care system, and mental health in light of white supremacy.

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