Company Profile
Mending the Chasm Inc. is a leading DEI consulting firm dedicated to fostering inclusive cultures and equitable practices within organizations. With a focus on container building, cultural transformation, and conflict resolution, we empower teams to navigate complexities and embrace diversity as a strength. Our transformative facilitation process guides groups through reflective dialogues, challenging assumptions, and catalyzing positive change toward shared goals.
Through our Leadership and Community Development services, we equip individuals and groups with the tools to enhance leadership skills, foster collaboration, and create meaningful change within their communities. Our approach recognizes the interconnectedness of physical, emotional, and social experiences, prioritizing holistic well-being and equity. Mending the Chasm Inc. is committed to bridging divides, fostering understanding, and creating lasting impact in organizations and communities worldwide.
About Us
At Mending the Chasm we empower organizations through the development of bespoke strategies, the facilitation of cultural transformation, and anti-racism leadership development. Our mission is to build inclusive cultures from the inside out, fostering environments where every individual feels valued and has a sense of belonging, can confidently and compassionately respond to conflict, ultimately driving positive change and creating a more equitable future for all.
With a focus on empowerment and sustainable change, we partner with clients to create lasting impacts that extend beyond the workplace, positively influencing communities and society at large.
Our Vision
Transforming systems through accountability, conflict resolution, and equitable practice.
Our Mission
Co-creating cultures rooted in belonging, accountability and interbeing.
The Values that We Root our Practice In:
Alignment – Living and leading in ways that are rooted in authenticity, integrity, and purpose.
Connection – Building meaningful, reciprocal relationships with people, nature, and spirit.
Healing-Centered Justice – Transforming harm through repair and collective thriving.
Accountability – Owning impact, repairing harm, restoring trust.
Belonging – Creating spaces where difference is embraced, and every person’s dignity, safety, and belonging needs matter.
Presence – Honouring the power of now with openness, listening, and care.
Contribution – Serving something larger than ourselves, creating impact over ego.
About Leena Sharma Seth
Founder & Principal
Leena is a settler who is cisgender, heterosexual, able-bodied, and a child of hindu, panjabi (India), and brahmin immigrants to Canada. Leena brings a set of lived and intersectional experiences to her work as a facilitator, strategist, and process designer in the equity, justice, inclusion and belonging space.
Leena’s practice is grounded in the belief that equity work is sacred and that healing, wholeness, and embodiment are critical to creating a just and inclusive present and future.
With over twenty years of experience in various leadership roles, both in Canada and in Asia, Leena has worked in non-profit, consulting, education, philanthropy, and supplier diversity spaces.
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