Welcome to Black Brilliance Inc
Committed to helping you uncover your Excellence via your own Brilliance.
Welcome to Black Brilliance Inc. Our main goal is to always achieve a high level of customer satisfaction with the services and products that we provide. This simple approach has effectively fueled our growth since we opened our virtual doors in 2020. We’re thrilled you’ve decided to visit us - please browse our site to discover what we’re all about.
About
Who We Are
Since 2019 Black Brilliance leadership has married their skills in strategizing, advocating, and collaborating with neighbors, institutions, and small nonprofits to create safer communities in the South Minneapolis area and beyond.
Black Brilliance is a dynamic and innovative consulting firm dedicated to empowering and uplifting marginalized populations through a communal-centered approach. With a strong emphasis on fostering safety, advocacy, and well-being, our team is committed to creating sustainable solutions that address the unique challenges faced by underserved populations. By leveraging our expertise and experience, we work with community members to co-create strategies that promote safety, resilience, equity, and social justice while using restorative practices. At Black Brilliance, we believe in the power of collective action and strive to cultivate environments where all individuals can thrive and reach their full potential.
With over more than a decade of experience as Executive Directors of Corcoran, Central, and Bryant Neighborhoods, both Alicia and Carmen have played a major role in maintaining, establishing, and furthering community partnerships to advance overall community health. Alicia and Carmen played a vital role in the MinneapolUS initiative as advisors and partners with the Office of Violence Prevention. Both are still in partnership with the Neighborhood Safety Department.
In 2022, Carmen served on the City of Minneapolis Mayor Safety Advisory Work Group. As a result, their work is reflected in current collaborations with several key initiatives, which include the South Minneapolis Anti-Racism Coalition (SMAC) and the Southside United Neighborhoods (SUN) Project - New Era Collaborative (NEC), 38th Street United, Midtown Farmers Market, and Hennepin County Suicide Prevention Collaboration. These interactions exemplify community-centered, grassroots organizing, and movement-building work that facilitates across and alongside various community stakeholders.
Despite the conclusion of Alicia's 5-years with Corcoran in December of 2023 and Carmen's upcoming completion of her term with Central and Bryan in June 2024, both executives have maintained their ties and will persist in fulfilling volunteer commitments and ongoing advisory duties. Their enduring relationship with South Minneapolis remains steadfast.
In the spirit of efficiency, excellence, and capacity Black Brilliance has partners that frequently in advisory and subcontractural roles.
Black Brilliance Inc Services
Brilliance can never be extinguished
We’re committed to helping our customers every step of the way and providing useful services to take care of all their needs. Read below to learn about the range of services we provide. We’re constantly growing and expanding our service options, so if you have something in mind that we don’t yet provide, we’d love to hear about it.
Workshops & Training
Next Level Service
We offer a host of workshops and trainings for staff and leadership on topics like anti-racism, community organizing and anti-racist community engagement.
Events
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Have a meeting? Want to host an event? Do you need outside facilitators to step in and facilitate? We’re happy to provide planning and facilitation for groups whether its a meeting or celebration!
Coaching & Facilitation
Here For You
Coaching is not just for C-Suite folks! Black Brilliance Inc. specializes in coaching and facilitating non-profit executives, managers, and supervisors at all levels. Whether it's managing across race and gender, creating generative supervisory relationships, or helping rediscover what committed you to change work in the first place, our coaching focuses on our professional growth and development.
