About Us

ELS was founded by Eduardo Salaz, MA, a leading expert in executive coaching, strategic planning, leadership engagement, and on diversity, equity, and inclusion. With over 30 years of experience in higher education and high technology companies in the Silicon Valley, ELS works with organizational leaders to awaken and harness their leadership core values and skills, through executive and management coaching, team building and meeting facilitation, empowering organizations to increase their productivity, efficiencies, and effectiveness.

At ELS Consulting, we use a proactive needs assessment process. By identifying inclusive leadership capabilities and designing strategies and priorities, our clients can engage and commit leaders to not only build but sustain an inclusive and engaged campus culture. Our goal is to help people, teams, and organizations reach their full potential through our value-added proposition. Through ELS, we help to identify and build inclusive leadership competencies, align D&I to current organizational mechanisms and identify a focused set of critical few priorities designed to help the organization grow.

ELS provides end to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) engagement, leadership, and strategic planning consultation for client organizations. Executive coaching for senior and middle level executives and managers. Areas of expertise include aligning diversity and inclusion to current operating mechanisms, engaging executives, and leaders on the value proposition for DE&I, conducting needs assessment, focus groups, executive coaching, and strategic planning. Group facilitation for client teams and organizations designed to optimize organizational alignment and performance. Client portfolio include in-depth experience working with high technology and higher education organizations. Just in time resources for new and experienced diversity practitioners. Specialize in strategic planning and leadership development for Employee Resource Groups (ERG’s).

Suggested Approach

ELS Diversity and Inclusion Value added Proposition to ELS Consulting Value Added Proposition

01 Executive Interviews

02 Needs Assessment Focus Groups

03 Organization Assessment Report

04 Owening Our DE&I Agenda Leadership Strategic Planning Session

05Drive Key Priorities, Action Plans, and Accountability Measures

Member of the Hispanic Serving Institution, (HSI) task force at Saint Mary’s College, (SMC). Familiar with HSI competitive grant proposal requirements, and other systemic statewide requirements. The HSI program at SMC was instrumental in being granted WASC accreditation for their DEI commitment. Worked in partnership with the provost to increase diverse faculty hiring by 25%. Drove the facilitation, design, and delivery of an HSI Advisory Group strategic plan for Santa Clara University. Worked in collaboration with the VP of Enrollment Management and strategic members of the campus community, including the president, cabinet members, vice presidents, faculty, staff, and students to identify strategic short- and long-term goals, own key priorities, and accountability measures.

Served on the Las Positas Community College, (LPC), Foundation Board. LPC was an HSI community college and committed to STEM, guided pathways, and certification programs with Google, Kaiser Permanente, Lawrence Livermore Labs, and Lam Research.

Actively involved with “Conectado”, a focused strategy to build a support ecosystem for Latinx students from the classroom to the boardroom. Conectado is in dialogue with several private and public colleges and universities to leverage the use of AI, digital imagery to provide students access to college and employment opportunities. Eduardo Salaz has a 25-year relationship with the founder and CEO, Guillermo Diaz Jr., (G). Close working relationship with Cristo Rey, Jesuit High School in San Jose, and Cristo Rey De La Salle, in Oakland and Downtown College Prep (DCP), in San Jose. Both charter schools have Chicanx / Latinx enrollment between 85-90%

Spent 20 years working in high technology, in various senior diversity roles. Have working relationships with several high technology executives and committed DEI corporate leaders. Corporate high-tech leaders include Brad Smith, former Intuit CEO, and Sasan Goodarzi, current Intuit CEO, Shantanu Narayen, current CEO of Adobe, Ken Coleman, former EVP with Silicon Graphics and Hewlett Packard Company.

Experience working with DEI subject matter experts, community-based organizations, employee resource groups, (ERG’s), local and national diversity organizations, and DE&I consultants.