Consulting, Strategic Guidance, and Trainings

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Build a safer, more respectful, and equitable Jewish workplace with support from SRE.

Creating workplaces where all people feel safe and able to thrive takes intention, learning, and courageous leadership. Sometimes, it also takes a trusted thought partner to help navigate what comes next.

SRE Network offers one-on-one strategic guidance, customized trainings and workshops, and speaking engagements to help Jewish communal organizations strengthen workplace culture, navigate complex challenges, and advance gender equity.

Whether you’re looking for a thought partner on a pressing issue, support engaging your leadership or staff, or a meaningful learning experience for your organization or community, our experienced team and advisors are here to help.

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“We can trust SRE when we peel back the curtain and are honest about where we have fallen short, or have complicated workplace dynamics, and they will continue to push us and support us moving forward."

How SRE Can Support You

Consulting and Strategic Guidance

SRE offers 1-on-1 consulting and strategic guidance to help professionals at member organizations navigate complex workplace challenges, strengthen organizational culture, and advance safety, respect, and gender equity.

You might reach out to SRE for support with:

Navigating challenging workplace or power dynamics
Strengthening accountability and organizational culture
Responding thoughtfully when harm occurs
Understanding and implementing SRE’s Standards
Fostering equitable belonging and ethical leadership

Trainings & Workshops

SRE offers customized virtual and in-person trainings designed to help organizations deepen learning and put the values of safety, respect, and equity into practice.

Led by experienced SRE staff and advisors, our trainings are grounded in Jewish values and tailored to the needs of your organization. Topics range from trauma-informed care and ethical leadership to accountability, power dynamics, values-inspired culture change, gender equity, and more.

Whether you’re looking to spark meaningful conversation, engage your leadership or board, build staff skills, or deepen your organization’s learning, we’ll work with you to create an experience that meets your community where it is.

Speaking & Conferences

Planning a conference, convening, retreat, or communal gathering?

SRE staff and advisors are available for keynotes, panels, facilitated conversations, workshops, and other speaking engagements that bring SRE’s expertise and perspective to broader audiences.

Our speakers can contribute to conversations about gender equity, workplace culture, ethical leadership, accountability, harm prevention and response, safety, respect, belonging, Jewish values, and other issues shaping Jewish communal life.

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Consulting and strategic guidance is complimentary for the first two sessions for member organizations. Additional sessions may be available for a reasonable fee. Donations to SRE are always welcome to support this work.

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Areas of Expertise

Our team brings deep expertise across issues related to gender equity, workplace culture, safety, respect, and organizational change. Areas we can explore with your organization include:

Gender Equity & Leadership

Safety, Harm Prevention & Response

Trauma-informed approaches, responding to disclosures, institutional betrayal and courage, victim-survivor experiences, and strengthening organizational approaches to preventing and responding to harm.

*Harm, as SRE defines it: discrimination or abuse in any form — actions, comments, or policies, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages targeting people based on their marginalized group identity.

Accountability & Repair

Workplace Culture & Belonging

Jewish Values & SRE

SRE Standards

Don’t see what you’re looking for? Reach out. We’ll explore how SRE can support you or help connect you with another trusted resource.

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Recent SRE Network Training Examples

SRE staff and advisors regularly bring their expertise to Jewish organizations, professional cohorts, conferences, retreats, and communal gatherings. Recent examples include:

Trauma-Informed Care for Diverse Communities
Presented on trauma-informed care with a focus on Sephardic communities for the National Social Service Providers Cohort.

Ethics, Accountability & Teshuvah in Leadership
Facilitated learning with ethics committees from CCAR, RA, and RRA exploring teshuvah, accountability, and ethical processes.

Addressing Domestic Violence in Communal Contexts
Delivered a keynote address on domestic violence at a summit co-hosted by UJA Federation of New York and Shalom Task Force.

Trauma-Informed Pastoral Care
Led a session on trauma-informed pastoral care at the Rabbanut North America retreat.

Values-Based Frameworks for Organizational Culture Change
Presented at the Jewish Belonging Summit on using safety, respect, and equity principles to guide organizational policy and practice.

Sexual Violence & Trauma
Participated in a panel on sexual violence and trauma before and after October 7 during the Association of American Jewish Psychologists’ mission to Israel.

Trainings are typically free for member organizations when they align with our standard offerings. For more tailored trainings that require significant customization or preparation, we may request a reasonable fee. Donations to SRE are always welcome to support this work

Meet the Consultation & Guidance Team

Dr. Guila Benchimol

About Guila

Dr. Guila Benchimol (she/her/hers) is Senior Educator and Founding Senior Advisor with the SRE Network. She was one of the key advisors who guided SRE’s launch in early 2018.

Guila is a criminologist, Jewish educator, and consultant. Through workshops, speaking, research, and advising she helps Jewish organizations, leaders, clergy, and boards across North America to prevent sexual violence and abuse, respond ethically when harm occurs, and build cultures where safety, dignity, and respect are lived values. Her work draws on her first career as a Jewish educator and integrates criminological research, survivor advocacy, Jewish wisdom, and restorative justice.

Born and raised in Toronto’s Spanish Moroccan Jewish community and rooted in Orthodox Jewish life while serving communities across the Jewish denominational spectrum, Guila navigates complex conversations about power, tradition, gender, and accountability with authenticity and trust.

Topic Areas

Guila brings particular expertise in:
- Safety, respect, and equity strategy
- SRE’s Standards and Standards Self-Assessment
- Trauma-informed approaches
- Primary and secondary victimization
- Institutional betrayal and institutional courage
- Responding to disclosures and harm
- Accountability, teshuvah, and repair
- Understanding victim-survivor experiences and support
- Facilitating difficult organizational conversations
- Integrating Torah and Jewish values into safety, respect, and equity work
- Thought partnership around program development and communicating this work

Dr. Deitra Reiser

About Deitra

Dr. Deitra Reiser, (she/her) is the founder of Transform for Equity, LLC, an antiracist repair group that supports organizations and leaders in building the capacity for diversity, racial equity, and belonging. Dr. Reiser partners with organizations across the country using the framework of intersectionality to dismantle systems of oppression. She is passionate about fostering racial equity and justice within organizations with a particular interest in addressing anti-Black racism and anti-Jewish hate. Deitra partners with nonprofits, synagogues, government agencies, and corporations to further racial equity and justice within the organization. She believes that organizations will transform into equitable spaces by first focusing on individual internal change which then drives intentional systemic change. Deitra fosters greater antiracist understanding among individuals and within institutions and supports their continued growth through thoughts and actions. Her focus is on driving the internal work necessary in order to achieve transformational and lasting change. She has partnered with the Union for Reform Judaism, National Park Services, and NCJW along with other organizations across the country. Deitra has over 20 years of experience as a school psychologist and educator.

Deitra is an alumna of Bend the Arc’s Selah Leadership Program and holds a doctorate in Educational Psychology from The University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Topic Areas

Looking for additional support?

Not sure where to turn, or seeking support beyond the offerings above? We’re here to help.

For more general thought partnership around advancing gender equity, strengthening workplace culture, or connecting with SRE Network and our resources, you can reach out directly to Rachel Gildiner, Executive Director, or Jackie Zais, Senior Director of Engagement and Programs. We’re always here to learn more about what you’re navigating and help point you in the right direction.

SRE also maintains a broader list of consultants and trainers with expertise related to safety, respect, equity, and organizational culture.

Explore Our Trainers & Consultants List

FAQs

Who is this for?

Our consulting, strategic guidance, and trainings are primarily designed for staff and lay leaders of SRE member organizations. We frequently work with CEOs and Executive Directors, board members, funders, HR and operations professionals, and others championing safety, respect, and equity within their organizations.

Speaking engagements may also be available for conferences, convenings, and events hosted by other organizations.

What if my organization is not yet a member of SRE?

How does the process work?

Is there a cost for these services?

How many sessions are included for consulting and guidance?

Will our consulting or guidance conversations be confidential?

Are these consulting sessions considered legal advice or case management?

Who do I contact with questions?

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Consulting, Strategic Guidance, and Trainings

About Consulting & Guidance | About Trainings | Explore Topics | Meet the Advisors | FAQs

Build a safer, more respectful, and equitable Jewish workplace with support from SRE.

SRE Member

How SRE Can Support You

Consulting and Strategic Guidance

Trainings & Workshops

Speaking & Conferences

Areas of Expertise

Our team brings deep expertise across issues related to gender equity, workplace culture, safety, respect, and organizational change. Areas we can explore with your organization include:

Gender Equity & Leadership

Safety, Harm Prevention & Response

Accountability & Repair

Workplace Culture & Belonging

Jewish Values & SRE

SRE Standards

Recent SRE Network Training Examples

Meet the Consultation & Guidance Team

Dr. Guila Benchimol

About Guila

Topic Areas

Dr. Deitra Reiser

About Deitra

Topic Areas

Looking for additional support?

FAQs

Not sure where to begin?

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