Build Bridges.
Strengthen Relationships.
Lead in a Good Way.
The Two-Eyed Leadership™ Program bridges Indigenous and Western ways of knowing. This trauma-informed leadership framework helps leaders develop the awareness, internal capacity, and emotional intelligence needed to foster stronger relationships with Indigenous employees, communities, partners, and Nations.
This may be a strong fit if:
☆ Your leaders want to support Indigenous employees more effectively but fear getting it wrong
☆ You want to reduce tokenism, performative inclusion, and the emotional burden often placed on Indigenous employees
☆ Your leaders are navigating complex conversations around culture, identity, equity, and belonging
☆ You want reconciliation embedded in everyday leadership, not treated as a checklist
Science shows that nervous systems regulate in relationship. When one person in a group is grounded and regulated, others naturally begin to attune - a process known as co-regulation.
Now imagine the impact of building this capacity across an entire team, workplace, or community.
What is The Two-Eyed Leadership™️ Program?
Many organizations want to strengthen relationships with Indigenous employees, communities, partners, and Nations. Yet despite good intentions, leaders are often navigating uncertainty around reconciliation, fear of getting it wrong, and a lack of practical guidance for building trust across cultural differences.
Two-Eyed Leadership™ was created to address this gap. Rooted in Indigenous perspectives and trauma-informed principles, this framework gives leaders the understanding and practical tools to navigate Indigenous spaces in a good way. Rather than approaching reconciliation as a checklist, it invites a deeper exploration of relationship, responsibility, and accountability.
Reconciliation Begins Within
What gets in the way is rarely a lack of good intention. It is the internal barriers leaders may not yet know how to recognize: fear, guilt, shame, bias, assumptions, overthinking, avoidance, saviourism, or the pressure to “get it right.”
Two-Eyed Leadership™ begins there. When leaders are willing to examine what they carry within, they become better equipped to show up with humility, sincerity, accountability, and care.
Reconciliation is not only external work, it is also internal work.
The Long-Term Impact
Organizations and communities who engage in this work are better equipped to:
🕊️ Strengthen relationships with Indigenous employees, communities, partners, and Nations
🕊️ Foster greater trust, belonging, and psychological safety
🕊️ Reduce performative approaches to reconciliation and move toward meaningful action
🕊️ Support Indigenous employees without creating additional emotional burden
🕊️ Develop leaders who can serve as bridge-builders across perspectives, experiences, and ways of knowing
When internal capacity is strengthened across teams, leadership becomes safer, more sustainable, and more aligned - creating conditions where Indigenous leaders, employees, and communities can truly thrive.
Who is Two-Eyed Leadership™️ For?
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Executives & Senior Leaders
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For those responsible for governance, decision-making, and long-term vision
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Strengthen leadership that promotes stability and sustainability
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Make grounded decisions, even under pressure
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Strengthen relationships while navigating complex community priorities and decisions
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Build systems that support current needs while planning for future generations
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HR, DEI, and Indigenous Relations Leaders
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For those shaping culture, policies, and people systems.
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Move beyond performative inclusion toward meaningful, measurable change
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Implement proven approaches that improve engagement, retention, and wellbeing
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Create safer, more accountable workplace environments
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Support Indigenous employees without placing the burden of education or advocacy on them
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Managers, Supervisors & Frontline Teams
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For those navigating day-to-day relationships with Indigenous employees, communities, and partners
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Build confidence in navigating complex conversations and culturally significant moments
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Strengthen communication, trust, and accountability
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Support Indigenous peoples without creating additional emotional burden
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Apply these principles in workplace and community settings
Client Feedback
The Foundations
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Foundation 1: Understanding the Current Reality
Recognizing the assumptions, biases, fears, and workplace dynamics that can unintentionally create harm. Participants develop greater awareness of the relational and systemic factors that shape Indigenous workplace experiences.
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Foundation 2:
Reconciliation Begins Within
Building the internal capacity needed to navigate discomfort, complexity, accountability, and difficult conversations. Participants strengthen their ability to lead with humility, emotional intelligence, and self-awareness.
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Foundation 3:
Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Being & Relating
Exploring Indigenous perspectives, values, worldviews, and approaches to relationship. Participants learn how to engage with Indigenous employees, communities, and Nations with greater understanding and respect.
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Foundation 4:
Relational Leadership in Practice
Putting learning into action through relationship-building, allyship, accountability, and meaningful reconciliation practices that can be applied within workplace and community settings.
Delivery Options
Two-Eyed Leadership™ can be customized to meet the unique needs, goals, and realities of your organization.
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Keynote Presentations
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Half-Day & Full-Day Workshops
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Leadership Retreats
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Multi-Session Leadership Series
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Consulting & Advisory Support
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Ongoing Partnership (combined with the Indigenous Employee Empowerment Program)
Meet Rachael
Rachael Hunt is a member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation and the Founder & CEO of Freedom School Co. Her Spirit Name is Waasay Binayshie, which translates from Anishinaabemowin as Shining Thunderbird. She is an Indigenous Leadership Consultant.
Over the past several years, Rachael has been on her own journey of reconnecting to her Anishinaabe roots while navigating and working within predominantly Western systems. Through this experience, she has developed a unique ability to bridge Indigenous and Western ways of knowing, helping leaders, teams, and organizations build stronger relationships grounded in trust, accountability, and understanding.
Drawing upon both lived experience and professional expertise, Rachael supports organizations in moving beyond performative approaches to reconciliation. Her work helps leaders develop the awareness, understanding, and capacity needed to engage with Indigenous employees, communities, Nations, and partners in a good way.
Alongside her corporate and community work, Rachael mentors Indigenous women and entrepreneurs navigating leadership, business, and personal growth while learning to walk in two worlds - personally and professionally.
Rachael is the host of The Cycle Breakers Podcast, where she leads conversations on Indigenous success, prosperity, leadership, well-being, and breaking cycles across corporate, entrepreneurial, and community contexts.
She is also the creator of the award-winning Freedom Method™ and a board-certified Master Practitioner trained in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Hypnosis, Somatic Therapy, Holy Fire® Reiki, and Success Coaching.
Who We've Supported
Past & Present Clients
HOW TO GET STARTED
Every organization is different, so we start with a conversation. Request a proposal using the form below, and we’ll get on a call to talk through what you’re looking for. From there, we’ll tailor a proposal to your goals, timeline and capacity.