Meet Founder and CEO, Rachel Wyley

Rachel Wyley’s professional journey, rich with leadership roles and pioneering accomplishments, paved the way for her to found Culture Kinesis, a visionary company focused on ‘cultural reimagination’ as the true bedrock of organizational transformation and the prerequisite to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initaitives.

Before Culture Kinesis’ founding, Rachel’s career spanned the education and nonprofit sectors, where she spearheaded initiatives to foster inclusive cultures and drive substantial business outcomes. Her experience in the nonprofit sector as a Black woman professional wasn’t without challenges. Rachel experienced firsthand the challenges presented to Black women navigating leadership within well-meaning organizations that grasped the importance of creating inclusive workplace cultures, but lacked the cultural foundation for their DEI initiatives to effectively take root.  

In 2021, Rachel took the decisive step to help bridge this gap.

Culture Kinesis emerged from a vision to go beyond traditional DEI frameworks. By providing foundational programs and services as ‘prerequisites’, it sets the stage for effective DEI implementation, aiming for a deeper and more sustainable cultural transformation.

As organizations strive to adapt to new workplace realities, Rachel and Culture Kinesis offer a path forward - one that emphasizes the creative process of critical unlearning, healing, and reconciliation.

Why I started Culture Kinesis

Culture Kinesis is not merely a response to the moment. It is an invitation into the realm of cultural reimagination - an opportunity to reestablish our workplace and societal cultural foundations. 

Rachel is an alumna of The LeaderSpring Center’s Women of Color LeadStrong fellowship and credits much of her decision to found Culture Kinesis with this transformational and edifying experience. Learn more and donate here.

As an artist, Rachel knows creativity to be the solution to inequity, not simply its mirror and megaphone.

By leveraging the African music tradition of call-and-response as a facilitation tool, Rachel deliberately disrupts the power dynamic that exists between artist and audience, and requires all present to offer their own emotional collateral as a critical part of the creation process. Rachel’s art and her work are both earnestly and unapologetically anti-performance.