Who We Are

Tellus Mater International brings together expertise in organizational assessment, physical security, research and evaluation, education, workforce development, and professional counseling. Drawing on decades of experience across government, healthcare, education, and international development, we help organizations and individuals build capacity, manage risk, strengthen performance, and achieve their goals.

T he Tellus Mater International Training and Assessment Collective (Tellus Mater) is a HUBZone certified, Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business established in 2022 with three distinct departments:

Leadership and Organizational Development
Security
Counseling

Tellus Mater (TM) is a diverse collective of accomplished, socially-minded professionals who are dedicated to the well-being and safety of society. We are a collective of highly skilled and experienced individuals gathered together from the fields of leadership, security, counseling and professional development.

O ur senior level contractors are recognized subject matter experts in their fields, working collaboratively as a well-honed, interdisciplinary team.

Mission & Values

The mission of Tellus Mater International Training and Assessment Collective is to:

Create more equitable, just organizations where employees feel respected, valued, and have a sense of belonging.
Support development efforts in the Global South.

Through high-quality research, assessment and training, Tellus Mater takes a data-driven approach, facilitating difficult conversations as a means to nourish change, and with our client-centered team of research and educational experts, tailors custom-built programs to remedy the root causes of the problems.

We Meet Our Goals

To meet our mutually designed goals, we will:

Engage in intense and reflective listening with our clients.
Learn from those closest to the heart of the organization about their successes, problems and intended outcomes.
Develop creative ways to gather data and information that we will use to build deep understanding of the organization.
Lift up all perspectives and voices into broader dialogues.
Develop, support and provide evidence-based strategies, assessments, training and other bespoke approaches.
Raise understanding and awareness, through our service, research, training, and practice, about workplace biases, imbalances and inequities that keep organizations from reaching their full potential.

We Are Committed

We value and embrace the power of diversity, cultural differences and personal agency, both within our teams and externally in all our interactions with our clients. We recognize:

The prevalence of social constructions of race and sex in the workplace, evaluate the implications of these social constructions as a factor in workforce inequities and provide support to ensure a diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible workplace.
The historical barriers and inherent challenges communities face, imposed through systemic oppression, bias, ageism, sexism and racism, which must guide our approach in all that we do.
That diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility are shared responsibilities. All stakeholders within an organization and their external partners have a role in advancing goals to help organizations and individuals achieve their full potential through innovative assessment, capacity building, security solutions, research, and counseling that promote resilience, effectiveness, and sustainable positive change.