Our Services
Whether it’s for you or your business - we have solutions to help you thrive.
INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS
60 minutes of one-on-one virtual coaching sessions for your personal and professional development challenges.
Cultivating confidence and self-worth
Managing your fears, stress and anxieties
Analyzing core values and redefining success
Priority analysis and effective time management
Healing from racial and inter-generational trauma
COMPANY TRAINING
90-minute customized workshops for companies in an interactive, group setting.
Personal and professional growth for employees
Cultivating an engaged and motivated workforce
Equity-focused, ethical leadership for managers
Anti-racism and allyship training for companies
Overcoming organizational barriers for growth
BUSINESS CONSULTANCY
On-demand consulting services to empower businesses and offer insights and strategies.
Data and management consulting
Company policy review, especially on equity issues
Business/research proposal review and writing
Organization structure and best practice review
Text analysis using computational strategies
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All clients get a 30-minute free initial consult to help us better understand their problem and offer customized solutions. This also gives clients the opportunity to review whether we would be a good fit for them.
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We take a deep dive into analyzing the problems presented to us by pouring through research in the social sciences, medicine, history, and other fields because we recognize that true solutions cannot be created without thoroughly understanding the problem.
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Whether it’s for an individual or company, we take time to understand their unique characteristics and challenges, so we can offer customized solutions that ensure the most meaningful change and a lasting impact.
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We know real, effective change is a long and difficult process that requires continual reflection and action. We offer practical, step-by-step solutions to help you transform your life, without letting the enormity of the task overwhelm you.
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Rather than feel good messages, our training emphasizes empowering our clients to solve their own problems and thrive. Our toolbox of strategies ensures that clients can implement the lessons learnt in our training, not just in the present but for the future as well.
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Similar to the strategy toolbox, these are tangible items our clients can use to thoughtfully solve the challenges in their lives and empower themselves, years beyond our training. The worksheets can be used as useful reminders in your home and work environment.
With each training, you will receive:
Anti-Racism and Equity Workshops
Beyond Performativity:
how to be effective anti-racist allies
When it comes to anti-racism, people struggle to move beyond performative gestures to meaningful actions. The real work begins when you leverage your power and commit to taking anti-racism action rooted in historical understanding and the wishes of the community you are serving. This workshop uncovers the systems of oppression in our society and creates a step-by-step realistic plan of anti-racist actions you can take.
Understanding and Countering Islamophobia
Despite the increase in hate crimes against Muslims in the US, Islamophobia is a topic that is often missed even in safe and inclusive spaces. This workshop analyses the various components to Islamophobia, including the racial aspect, so we can break the layer of invisibility and misinformation, to counter the stereotyping and discrimination of Muslims and Islam.
Finding Your Voice as
A Person of Color
For a person of color, finding your authentic voice can be difficult in a society that often tells us to be something other than ourselves. In this exclusive workshop for our BIPOC clients, we take a look at racial trauma and the effect that it has on our physical and mental well-being. We also discuss how to start healing from that trauma, unlearn harmful mindsets and use our authentic voices to advocate for ourselves and our communities.
Personal Development Workshops
Tools for A Better Life:
Conquer fears, live the life you want
Our fear of failure or the need to live up to expectations often causes us to significantly overwork, leading to a decline in our physical and mental well-being. In this workshop, we show you how to overcome your fears of failure, cultivate confidence in yourself, and shape life based on core values that are important to you and bring you peace and happiness.
Effective Time Management: Prioritizing values over efficiency
Here’s a hard truth - you can’t have it all. Unlike what most people believe, you can only maximize efficiency up to a certain point, so effective time management relies on learning how to prioritize your most important tasks. This workshop gives you a step-by-step plan on how to organize and prioritize your tasks, say no to obligatory work that drains your energies, and regain control of your time. We also take a deep dive into the research behind procrastination and ways to overcome that barrier.
Navigating Stress and Burnout:
Learning about energy and motivation
Dealing with chronic stress and exhaustion from overworking is surprisingly common in modern work culture. In this workshop we go into the science behind productivity and why rest is crucial for doing good work. We also teach you how to be mindful of your own physical and mental energies, as well as how to conserve it on difficult days and replenish it by tapping into your core motivations and joy.
Leadership and Specialty Workshops
Next Generation of Leaders:
Creating an engaged workforce
Did you know that research shows companies are 20% more profitable when employees are engaged in the work that they do? Here, we teach ethical leadership to entrepreneurs and managers and shows them how to prioritize their employees’ overall well-being to cultivate a motivated and energetic workforce. We discuss how to give employees autonomy, help overcome structural barriers and make employees feel truly valued.
Academic Mentorship:
More equitable systems for research
In this workshop, we will talk about the pervasiveness of bias, inequity, and racism within academia, and what educators can do to dismantle and rebuild a better system. We will discuss the barriers students from historically marginalized communities often face and how academic mentors can help them overcome those systemic challenges. Educators will also get a chance to reflect on their leadership style, and obtain a toolbox of effective mentorship strategies.
Holiday Special Workshop:
Maintaining boundaries
While healthy boundaries are essential to being happy and living the life you want, it's hard to set it with the people we love the most. In this special holiday workshop, we discuss out how to draw effective boundaries, start to break the cycle of inter-generational trauma, and make the holidays a little easier for yourself. Attendees will get also get a toolbox of strategies and phrases in they use to maintain set boundaries.
Reviews for Individual Sessions
I'm so grateful that Saamiya helped me figure out my priorities. It's a work in progress and with her continued help I am hoping to find joy and not be stressed all the time.
— Ramya Nair
The training from A Better Force is expertly designed and insightful, and I have learnt how to come across more confidently, show my inner strength and change my mindset when faced with roadblocks. I am looking forward to continuing to use all the tips I have learnt in the workshop in both my personal life and work.
— Maruf Ahmed
Saamiya is very compassionate, a great listener, and very in tune with her clients. Her tailored approach cut straight through to what I needed, and she made it very easy to discuss the heart of my issues. Over the course of our sessions, I learned how to lift the wall of fear and make major strides towards what I truly wanted, not what others wanted for me.
— Devonn Patterson
Reviews For Workshops
Great workshop on maintaining boundaries with helpful and well constructed exercises. Gave me a lot of actionable points to work with!
— Shehzeen Hussain
The team at A Better Force is truly committed to creating strategic, emotionally intelligent, compassionate, educational conversations around the much-needed topics of equity, diversity, inclusion, and leadership development. They are leaders in the true sense of the word: guiding folks towards a more positive and healthy vision for work, life, community, and civil society.
— Lorelei Gonzalez
I registered for the Islamophobia workshop and found it to be very accessible and informative. The leaders did a fantastic job of covering a dense topic in a relatively short amount of time. I've since leaned on my new knowledge when encountering "casual" Islamophobia, which opened space in conversations for new ways of thinking.
— Joy Butler
Reviews for Consultancy
I had the good fortune of work with Sarah and A Better Force recently. I have a startup that is in the dating space and Sarah worked with us to develop and onboarding questionnaire. Its intent is to help people get a data-based blueprint for their relational patterns at the beginning of the dating program. Not only did we get everything done in a short period of time, the collaboration that our teams had was fantastic. We were able to share and exchange ideas easily and with flexibility that allowed for a truly unique outcome. I cannot recommend Sarah and the team at A Better Force enough. Consummate professionals with outstanding experience and work ethic. I look forward to working with them again in the future.
— Tali Livni, Founder & CEO of Sh/p Dating
I have known the co-founders of A Better Force for several years and have used their services in the past. This year when I was writing a proposal to NSF with a large team, I reached out to Dr Seraj with the goal of creating new workshops. She took the time to understand the proposed project, the composition of the team and the requirements from the FOA. Within a few days they got back to me with beautiful images and fantastic ideas for workshops. I look forward to working with them again.