Welcome

A commitment to change, innovation, and growth

By centering our client needs, our firm uses innovative approaches and solutions to help your business grow.

About us
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People & Business Solutions

Our comprehensive suite of professional services caters to a diverse clientele, ranging from sole proprietorships to corporations, non-profits and executives.

People & Business Solutions

Whether you are a business of one or a company of 2 million associates, people are central to business. Whether you need support with your talent development strategy, desire to understand and reach new customers, want to expand your products and promoting products online, our team has the people, talent, and time to help meet your people and business needs.

Leadership Development

Whether you are seeking to grow as a professional in your career or seek to help your team grow, we are here to help. Our leadership develop solutions can include 1:1 coaching, team coaching, team development and retreats that rang from remote, hybrid, and in-person solutions. Each offering is customized for you, your team, senior executives, board members and community partners.

Organizational Development

We partner to help organizations be healthy and profitable. By understanding, valuing, and responding to the needs of your people, having the right tools, using effective change processes, and being a transformational leader are key elements to transform culture.

Innovative Consulting

Not every pain point has a clear solution. Not every plan has a vision, and not every vision has a plan. To get a customized plan, with high-level and hands-on support, working with an experienced consultant to help transform your business may be the best solution.

Conflict Resolution

When team dynamics get in the way of business, thoughtful resolutions that center people, accountability, and repair are essential. Whether you need a facilitator to navigate bias-related conflicts, team dynamic shifts, or you simply desire to develop an internal response team within your organization, our restorative-justice-centered facilitations and trainings can help.

Curriculum, Training & Programming

Whether you want to develop an employee resource group, revise your out-dated talent development training, spruce up the academic core curriculum, or design a multicultural programming slate, we can provide the guidance and direct service to help achieve engaging, interactive, socially-responsive, people-first trainings and curriculum.

An array of resources

Our comprehensive suite of professional services are customizable to you.

The Sepia Promise

  • You-centered experts.
  • Innovative and collaborative approach.
  • Meaningful and measurable results.
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Sharpen Your Toolbox!

  • Thought-provoking tools.
  • Case studies that test your knowledge.
  • Exclusive access to our knowledge library.

“If not now, then when?”

Monique Jernigan

CEO, The Sepia Firm

Whether you are first, or last, the goal is to be in the race. As a first-generation college-student, now first-generation professional, I have often felt anything except first. Last is the better term. However, the work of change is not about being first or last, it’s about being in. As a leader, I am all in, and as a future collaborator to your success I created Sepia so that we can be all in with you.

Leaving an indelible mark on the landscape of tomorrow.

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Quote by Lilla Watson

“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”

As a DEI executive who has worked to support organizational development, to set and extend talent development strategies, recruitment strategies, designed and led departments from scratch, and who has managed teams for 15+ years, Monique knows what it means to need help and what it feels like to wait on, cultivate it, or benefit from the gift of receiving it from others. Reflecting on civil rights activists Lilla Watson, Monique’s believes deeply that leaders and organizations can reach new heights if they center their employee community just as much as they do their clients or bottom lines. She knows that for an organization to reach ongoing success, employee health must be core to strategy.

This is the approach that she takes with each client, and this is the approach she has used for the last 15 years before starting her firm. She believes that when the board members, executives and managers of organizations see that their success is based on the success of their employees, only then can they align and achieve business goals. Sepia was born to help bridge the familiar gap that businesses tend to have with their employees. Sepia also exists because of the many people in Monique’s life have and who continue to send the elevator back down so that she too can ascend. Here’s to ascending together and sending elevators back down to others.

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Guiding your business through the project

As you work to achieve your people and business goals, we will work alongside you, providing expertise, thought leadership, innovation, and care.

Our services

We’ve worked with some of the best companies.