Dori Tunstall, Inc. is a firm dedicated to decolonizing and diversifying institutional processes with companies and organizations through strategic consulting, leadership coaching, “care-shops,” and customizable curriculum.
We help companies and organizations build good relations with diverse cultural communities as a critical step in decolonizing their relationships and processes, especially in putting Indigenous first.
We model processes of good relations for companies and organizations in order to accelerate the transformation of their systems to optimize respectful, liberatory, and joyful relationships with cultural communities.
Dr. Elizabeth “Dori” Tunstall is a distinguished design anthropologist, celebrated author, visionary organizational design leader, consultant, and coach. As the renowned author of “Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook,” she is a path-breaker of progressive approaches that challenge conventional design paradigms that exclude and harm Indigenous cultures, Black, and other diverse communities.
With a global career encompassing an Associate Professor of Design Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Swinburne University in Australia, respectively, Dori made history as the first black and black female Dean of a Design Faculty anywhere at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. Her accomplishments have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, notably the 2022 Sir Misha Black Award for Distinguished Service to Design Education, the inaugural BADG of Honour for Design Education from the Black Artists and Designers Guide, and the 2023 SEGD Excellence in Design Education Award.
Dori holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University and a BA in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College. Her current trajectory is firmly rooted in organizational transformation, corporate cultural learning, and dynamic leadership, all within the context of decolonizing design for liberatory joy. Dori Tunstall’s indomitable spirit and unyielding commitment to fostering systemic transformation continue to catalyze change, bridging academia and industry to make a lasting impact.
ABOUT DR. DORI TUNSTALL
Dr. Elizabeth “Dori” Tunstall is a distinguished design anthropologist, celebrated author, visionary organizational design leader, consultant, and coach. As the renowned author of “Decolonizing Design: A Cultural Justice Guidebook,” she is a path-breaker of progressive approaches that challenge conventional design paradigms that exclude and harm Indigenous cultures, Black, and other diverse communities.
With a global career encompassing an Associate Professor of Design Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Swinburne University in Australia, respectively, Dori made history as the first black and black female Dean of a Design Faculty anywhere at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada. Her accomplishments have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, notably the 2022 Sir Misha Black Award for Distinguished Service to Design Education, the inaugural BADG of Honour for Design Education from the Black Artists and Designers Guide, and the 2023 SEGD Excellence in Design Education Award.
Dori holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University and a BA in Anthropology from Bryn Mawr College. Her current trajectory is firmly rooted in organizational transformation, corporate cultural learning, and dynamic leadership, all within the context of decolonizing design for liberatory joy. Dori Tunstall’s indomitable spirit and unyielding commitment to fostering systemic transformation continue to catalyze change, bridging academia and industry to make a lasting impact.
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DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION & JUSTICE
Dori Tunstall, Inc. is founded on the principle that all people have the right to justice and to the joy that comes through cultural liberation. We are constantly seeking to decolonize our own practices by putting indigenous first, fostering authentic and respectful relations with cultural communities, questioning the status quo and reflecting the diversity of communities within our team, in order to bring about true transformation and model good practices with our clients and in the world.
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SUSTAINABILITY
Putting Indigenous First is the foundation of our sustainability practices. We believe that care for the environment is best achieved when we return the land back to Indigenous communities and we advocate for this to happen. And based on the Indigenous principles of respect, reciprocity and interdependence, we support the rights of nature, engage in acts of both environmental and cultural justice, and take steps to reduce our impact on the environment.
Dori Tunstall, Inc. is founded on the principle that all people have the right to justice and to the joy that comes through cultural liberation. We are constantly seeking to decolonize our own practices by putting indigenous first, fostering authentic and respectful relations with cultural communities, questioning the status quo and reflecting the diversity of communities within our team, in order to bring about true transformation and model good practices with our clients and in the world.
Putting Indigenous First is the foundation of our sustainability practices. We believe that care for the environment is best achieved when we return the land back to Indigenous communities and we advocate for this to happen. And based on the Indigenous principles of respect, reciprocity and interdependence, we support the rights of nature, engage in acts of both environmental and cultural justice, and take steps to reduce our impact on the environment.