Our Services

Consultation Services and Thought Leadership

We provide coaching, consultation, and programs that help leaders and teams integrate inclusive practices, strengthen organizational culture, and align communications with the Principles of Community. Our team of professionals are recognized nationally and internationally for their expertise as speakers, facilitators, and thought leaders.
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How Can We Support You?

Invite a Principles of Community Ambassador to your event. Request a custom course on organizational culture or inclusive practice. Book a consultation on website language or policy alignment. Request a consultation on police accountability frameworks. Request a speaker on inclusive leadership, culture, or equity topics. Start a pre-award planning conversation for your grant proposal.
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Inclusive Leadership & Executive Consultation

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  • Inclusive leadership coaching and mentorship (internal and external), with a focus on authentic, servant, and vulnerable leadership—helping leaders navigate complexity with integrity, empathy, and courage. 
  • Executive sponsorship of strategic initiatives that strengthen culture, retention, and organizational development. 
  • IDARE committee consultation, including experience survey analysis, gap analysis, and committee development to drive data-informed improvements to university climate. 
  • Police accountability consultation to build trust, transparency, and community partnership. 
  • Strategic guidance for external partners on advancing inclusive practices and organizational development. 

Organizational Culture & Learning

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  • Principles of Community Ambassadors Program, promoting a culture of university engagement and involvement in community activities. 
  • Organizational culture and inclusive practice programs, addressing bias, navigating freedom of expression, and fostering dialogue across differences. 
  • Dynamic Discussions and Dialogues Across Difference, creating spaces for constructive and meaningful engagement that enable productive learning environments and encourage freedom of expression—while honoring the Principles of Community, respect, dignity, and connection. 
  • Restorative practices and racial healing through the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation (TRHT) Center. 
  • Healthcare and trauma-informed leadership sessions, integrating equity-focused approaches for teams and leaders. 

Communications & Policy Alignment

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  • Consultation on website language, messaging, and policy alignment (Proposition 209, Title VI/VII, ADA, and related compliance). 
  • Inclusive communications strategy and toolkits that integrate the Principles of Community and other values- and mission-based language, ensuring communications reflect both institutional priorities and inclusive excellence frameworks. 
  • Visual identity guidance and messaging frameworks that promote belonging, respect, and shared understanding. 
  • Support for institutional campaigns like Avanza, which elevate UC Davis’s inclusive excellence mission. 

Why UC Davis Inclusive Excellence?

We lead with a commitment to authentic, servant, and vulnerable leadership that fosters cultures where people can thrive. Our work is grounded in inclusive excellence frameworks that enable productive learning environments and support freedom of expression, while honoring the Principles of Community, respect, dignity, and connection. We help campus units, external partners, and principal investigators translate values and mission—such as the Principles of Community—into leadership practices, organizational culture, grant proposals, and communications strategies. Drawing on nationally recognized thought leadership and research-based practices, we create spaces where collaboration, innovation, and belonging flourish.

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Meet our Team

Our team is made up of professionals with diverse lived experiences and academic backgrounds, including Ed.D.s, M.B.A.s, and advanced degrees in education, policy, and organizational leadership. Collectively, we bring expertise in inclusive leadership, admissions, student affairs, experience survey analysis, organizational development, and cross-sector consulting. Team members have worked with identity- and interest-based communities, led campus-wide engagement efforts, supported climate and culture initiatives, and advised public agencies and nonprofits on inclusive practice. We are facilitators, strategists, and educators who blend academic rigor with real-world application, developing learning opportunities grounded in law, policy, and the Principles of Community. Our collaborative approach reflects UC Davis’s longstanding leadership in inclusive excellence.

Free and Fee-based

We offer a combination of free and fee-based services, depending on the nature of the request and the audience. Some offerings—such as campus-wide initiatives and select consultations—are available at no cost to UC Davis units as part of our public service mission. Custom workshops, long-term support, and external collaborations may involve a fee. We are in the process of finalizing our current service fee structure. In the meantime, we’re happy to discuss your needs and explore available options.

Invite Vice Chancellor Renetta Garrison Tull to Speak

Renetta Garrison Tull, vice chancellor for Inclusive Excellence at UC Davis, is a globally recognized speaker and education policy strategist known for her passionate advocacy for equity in STEM and beyond. A dynamic presence on stage and across media platforms, VC Tull is frequently sought after as a keynote speaker, panelist, sponsor, and mentor for events focused on inclusive leadership, institutional transformation, and equity in higher education.

What sets her apart is not only her expertise—but her care. VC Tull brings intentionality to every engagement, taking the time to understand the goals of each audience and tailoring her remarks to serve with impact.

To support a thoughtful and well-prepared experience, we ask that speaker requests be submitted at least three weeks in advance. If your request is accepted, please send supporting materials such as talking points, scripts, or event briefs at least two weeks prior to the scheduled engagement.

Invite Vice Chancellor Tull

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  • Preferred formats

  • Keynote/Interview (longer than 15 minutes) - Rather than standing at a podium delivering prepared remarks, VC Tull feels that one of the most engaging formats for a keynote presentation is an interview style or “moderated chat” where a moderator asks her questions. The format reduces formality, increases comfort, leads into dialogue and Q/A with the audience, and gives an emerging leader the opportunity to share the space and build public speaking skills. In fact, that’s how VC Tull broke into being a public speaker herself!

    Formal Remarks (10 minutes or fewer) - If formal remarks are preferred, VC Tull is happy to give 5 to 10 minutes on a prearranged topic and then, if desired, taking questions from the audience. 

    Panel (any length) - For any panel discussion, VC Tull requests that you provide the names and affiliations of the panelists, brief bios, and an introduction via email so that she can introduce herself informally before the event takes place.

    Stakeholder Meeting / Event Appearance - The Vice Chancellor can also make scripted formal remarks (no more than 5-10 minutes) on appropriate occasions or merely appear at an event and participate informally.

  • Additional Guidance

  • Please provide  guidance on the topics you would like to be covered. Be as specific and focused in your request as possible. What are your top 2-3 (or 1!) priorities?

    Please describe the size and type of audience, as well as issues of special interest to the group. 

    Please also provide snapshot of the entire program including the names and affiliations any other speakers. This helps VC Tull to situate her presentation in the broader context to complement the approach or topics of other speakers. 

    If you anticipate that any key stakeholders will be in attendance or speaking, we appreciate the inclusion of stakeholder bios or links to stakeholder websites. 

    One very good way to prepare the Vice Chancellor is to provide her with rough or polished talking points or run-of-show script, which our office will review and possibly modify. 

    If the Vice Chancellor is to act as a master of ceremonies or presenter for an awards, appreciation, or celebratory event, we require that you provide her a draft script/run-of-show for review and possible modification. 

  • 250-word bio

  • Renetta Garrison Tull is the University of California Davis' Vice Chancellor for Inclusive Excellence. She formerly served as Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives at UMBC and as a Director for the University System of Maryland. In past roles at UMBC, Tull served as either Co-PI or PI on AGEP, ADVANCE, and LSAMP proposals.  At Davis, she is PI of the PROMISE Engineering Institute.  Her degrees in electrical engineering and speech science are from Howard University and Northwestern University, and she has had faculty roles at UW-Madison, University of Maryland College Park, UMBC.

    Dr. Tull is on the Chief Diversity Officers Council for the University of California, and she is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis.  An international speaker on global diversity in STEM, Dr. Tull was a Global Engineering Deans Council/Airbus Diversity Award Finalist and received the ABET Claire L. Felbinger Award for Diversity, and the Student Platform for Engineering Education Development Global Mentoring Award. She was part of the consensus committee for the National Academies’ “Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic STEMM” and is part of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) community. Her research interests in Humanitarian Engineering continue through sharing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • 450-word bio

  • Dr. Renetta Garrison Tull is the University of California Davis' inaugural Vice Chancellor for Inclusive Excellence. She also serves on the Chief Diversity Officers Council for the University of California, and has several programs and boards within her portfolio including HSI initiatives, the Police Accountability Board, Diversity and Inclusion Education and strategic planning, 4 centers, and more.

    She formerly served as Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Development and later, Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives at UMBC. She had a detail within the University System of Maryland’s headquarters (for 12 institutions), serving as the Director for Pipeline Professional Development Programs, and she has been either Co-PI or PI on National Science Foundation grants within the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), ADVANCE, and Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) programs. At Davis, she is PI of the PROMISE Engineering Institute, a collaboration between UC Davis and UMBC, with connections to engineering schools within the UC, and engineering schools in Maryland (UM College Park, Morgan State, and Johns Hopkins) to form an engineering “East-West” collaboration.  Her degrees in electrical engineering and speech science are from Howard University and Northwestern University, and she has had faculty roles at UW-Madison, University of Maryland College Park, UMBC. She was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, and participates in faculty activities as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis, and a faculty affiliate in the Interdepartmental Program on Human Rights Studies.  

    An international speaker on global diversity in STEM, Dr. Tull was a Global Engineering Deans Council/Airbus Diversity Award Finalist, and has received the ABET Claire L. Felbinger Award for Diversity, and the Student Platform for Engineering Education Development Global Mentoring Award. She has been involved with Puerto Rico’s ADVANCE Hispanic Women in STEM, the Latin and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions, UNESCO, the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) community, and her research interests in Humanitarian Engineering continue through sharing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She is an author of a chapter of Rising to the Top, IFEES book on global women in engineering – which will be featured at the World Engineering Education Forum in 2021, and was part of the consensus committees for the National Academies’ “Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic STEMM,” and “The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM. Tull enjoys her work as an education policy strategist and champion for equity.

  • Honorarium
  • Per University of California Policy, VC Tull is not able to accept any form of honorarium. Instead, she encourages organizations to make contributions to our philanthropies.
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  • Travel (non-UC Davis events only)
  • For most of her appearances off the UC Davis campus, VC Tull requests that organizations cover hotel, travel, meals, and ground transportation directly related directly to the speaking event. Before making any travel arrangements, please confer with the Vice Chancellor as she may be trying to coordinate with other trips.
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