Helping People Helping Others
Tools for inclusive empowerment
We provide resources to unlock creativity and compassion within yourself, your group, and your community.
At Helping People Helping Others (HPHO) we offer practical tools and services that empower individuals with diverse abilities to thrive by partnering with you – their families, workplace, and communities!
We envision a world where people of all abilities truly belong and are able to reach their full potential.
Our Services
Helping People Helping Others provides advisory workshops, inclusivity labs, and keynote sessions to help unlock creativity. Our offerings are based in a foundation of scientific research and focus on four key pillars that enable inclusivity for diverse individuals. Learn more about the pillars below.
Character Strengths
Discover your strengths
A set of personality traits that describe what is best in people, how they think, behave, and feel.
Self-determination
Live Authentically
Being able to be and live as yourself, and to be accepted and supported by others and our environment to do so.
Belonging
Building communities
A personal sense of feeing ‘at home’ in one’s community serving as a personal resource that can build forms of social and spatial inclusion.
Mattering
Feel and add value
Profound and fudamental human need essential to well-being…feeling valued and adding value.
Our Story
Helping People Helping Others was founded by Xaviera Diaz & Kathy Miller to offer practical tools and advisory services based in a foundation of scientific research and focus on adding valuable positive impact. We envision a world where people of all abilities truly belong and are able to reach their full potential.
Kathy Miller
Kathy Miller is a Senior Operations Executive with a proven track record at major companies such as General Motors, Delphi, Parker Hannifin, Rolls-Royce, and Vertiv. She has led global teams, fostering inclusive cultures built on trust, respect, and accountability.
Kathy is passionate about helping individuals of diverse talents and abilities thrive in the workplace. She has been an executive sponsor of numerous employee resource groups and served as Vice Chairman of the Board for Damar, a non-profit supporting people with developmental, behavioral, and intellectual disabilities.
An author, keynote speaker, coach and consultant, Kathy uses the science of positive psychology to drive transformation for clients like Subaru, Panasonic, and Madison Industries.
Xaviera Diaz
Xaviera Diaz has spent her professional career working to unlock people potential in companies (small to large) and helping employees to feel valued at work. She has a passion for inclusion and diversity as a first generation Canadian and particularly enjoys focusing on opportunities to make a positive impact.
Xaviera achieved her Bachelor of Arts & Science from Quest University Canada, specializing in Organizational Behaviour and Neuroscience. She went on to pursure her Master of Applied Positive Psychology (where she met Kathy!) at the University of Pennsylvania, connecting the dots between personal financial management and psychology.
Having worked in the financial industry, Xaviera has seen first-hand the importance of focusing on value-add programs and processes when it comes to diversity and inclusion.
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Our Mission
Helping People Helping Others offers practical tools and advisory services based in a foundation of scientific research and focus on adding valuable positive impact.
Our Services
Available in the following formats:
- Keynote
- Inclusivity Lab
- Advisory & Workshops
- Self-Facilitated Content & Guides