Hi, I'm Alida.

I'm a Consultant Strategist Coach Facilitator Teacher Learning Designer Leader

As the CEO of Ethos and author of Cultures of Belonging, I am committed to teaching love, scaling empathy, and healing harm through diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging strategies.

I am the CEO and Founder of Ethos and author of the book Cultures of Belonging: Building Inclusive Organizations that Last, released on February 15, 2022.

By helping organizations and the people inside of them understand their relationships with power, how to use their power responsibly, and how to share their power, I help create the conditions for everyone to thrive at work.

As part of Ethos, I also serve as the Learning Director of the Women Influence Chicago Accelerator, which supports womxn-identifying technologists to advance their careers through a structured four-month program combining coaching, forums, classroom learning, and mentorship. I am also the founder of the membership organization, Embolden, which is focused on developing friendships between women.

Outside of Ethos, I am an Advisory Board Member at Prosper Strategies, a certified mindfulness and meditation instructor, classical guitarist, and working artist. Formerly, I served on mHub’s Venture Board and taught marketing and career advancement at General Assembly.

I received my certification in diversity, equity, and inclusion from Georgetown University and have eight years of practitioner experience. In 2021, I received the University of Chicago’s Early Career Achievement Award.

Ethos helps with some of the hardest and most important problems we face: how do we work well together as a team, and what to do when we don’t. Alida brings an amazing amount of intellectual understanding and human empathy that connects with everyone on the team and has helped us grow tremendously.

Vishu Ramanathan

Founder of Buildout

Ethos

I am so fortunate to live my mission and purpose every day at Ethos, a diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) transformation firm closing the opportunity gap for underrepresented and underserved groups. At Ethos we give our clients the security to pursue optimism through Consulting, Training, and Programs.

The team at Ethos have been incredibly valuable partners and facilitators for all of us at dscout. The ability to understand a project and to partner with a client through project is in the blood of the team at Ethos. Our team always looks forward to a day when Ethos is involved.

Jim Conti

VP of Talent at dscout

Cultures of Belonging:

Building Inclusive Organizations that Last

lays out clear, actionable steps for you to build new values, experiences, and perspectives into your organizational culture, infusing it with the diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging employees need to be their best selves and do their best work.

Miranda-Wolff’s generous, thoughtful book conveys the urgency of meeting people where they are if we want to create meaningful change. She offers a realistic roadmap for workplaces to shift toward a true culture of belonging, while holding space for the ways in which the journey may not always be a straightforward one. The nuanced approaches, concrete action steps, and clarifying examples she shares make Cultures of Belonging a truly invaluable guide for a broad range of organizations.