About
Charlie Best Consulting LLC supports mission-driven individuals, organizations, businesses, and municipalities in taking real, sustainable steps toward Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI). Whether you're just beginning your equity journey, feeling stuck in guilt or overwhelm, or looking to deepen your understanding, Charlie offers a new way in—grounded in story, relationship, and everyday action.
Charlie Best Consulting is, well, Charlie Best. Charlie is a white, queer, transgender educator and facilitator with over six years of experience as a professional JEDI educator and consultant. Having begun his career teaching high school social studies, Charlie is based in Olympia, Washington, serving the wider Pacific Northwest and providing broader-reaching online learning spaces for all those interested in community-building. Through reflective dialogue, collaborative workshops, and coaching grounded in cultural humility, Charlie creates spaces that foster strength-based learning, vulnerability, and authentic transformation—helping people and organizations root equity work into their lived realities.
In addition to partnering with organizations and institutions, Charlie offers learning opportunities for individuals seeking personal or professional growth. His community-facing work creates accessible entry points into intersectional anti-oppression practice, and evolves in response to the needs of the community and the shifting local, national, and global landscape. These offerings center curiosity, identity, and connection—building collective capacity for justice, especially in times of political uncertainty and backlash.
At its core, Charlie Best Consulting LLC exists to help people and organizations move from avoidance or overwhelm into engaged, liberatory practice—through curiosity, courage, and collective care.
Our Pedagogical Values
Change starts where you are
Everyone has a place to begin. Our work is to meet you there with compassion, not judgment.
Lead with curiosity
We don’t know everything and we have a responsibility to listen and learn. We don’t know what we don’t know so keep minds and hearts open.
We learn through discomfort
We practice leaning into the discomfort of holding multiple truths.
Humility is essential
We will all make mistakes. The goal isn’t perfection, but accountability and growth. We strive to model and support a culture of learning, repair, and accountable relationships.
Recognize power dynamics
We move with awareness of privilege, positionality, and impact in order to act with intention.
Story is a tool for transformation
We center lived experience and personal narrative as a means to foster connection, build empathy, and encourage meaningful change.
Relationship matters more than performance
This work isn’t about checking boxes, it’s about building trust, practicing care, and holding complexity with courage.
Change is made through small, sustained actions
Liberation isn’t a destination—it’s a daily practice of choosing values over comfort.
We grow in community
Collective care, co-learning, and shared responsibility guide everything we do.
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