About us
We build the tools belonging requires.
Belonging Works is the practitioner-built home for the people doing the daily work of inclusion. Free to join. No fluff. Built with the community it serves.
Our mission
Inclusion work should not be invented from scratch every time.
For years, HR leaders, DEIA practitioners, ERG champions, and people leaders have been handed the responsibility of building belonging without the structure, tools, or peer community to do it well. They reinvent the same wheels, in the same lonely rooms, every single year.
Belonging Works exists to change that. We give practitioners frameworks built from real organizational work, templates they can adapt and ship the same day, and a peer community that has been where they are. Free to join. Open by default. Built with the people who use it.
Belonging is not a poster on the wall. It is the result of specific decisions, made by specific people, supported by the right tools. That is what we build.
The team
Practitioners building for practitioners.
Michael Bach
Co-Founder
Michael is an award-winning leader, speaker, and bestselling author in DEIA. He has spent more than two decades building the systems, structures, and language that organizations need to take belonging from value statement to daily practice.
He founded Belonging Works to give practitioners the same support, tools, and peer community he wished he had at the start of his own career.
Gabby Zuniga
Co-Founder
Gabby brings a practical HR and workplace perspective that keeps Belonging Works grounded in the realities organizations face every day. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience in HR, inclusion, leadership, and organizational culture, she ensures that every resource is practical, relevant, and immediately applicable.
She leads the development of the community experience, practical toolkits and templates, and member programming, ensuring that every member gains meaningful value from the moment they join.
What we believe
The principles behind every tool we ship.
Belonging is built, not declared.
Posters and panels don't move the needle. The work happens in specific decisions made by specific people. Our tools live where those decisions get made.
Practitioners come first.
The people doing inclusion work are usually the last ones supported. We build for them, with them, and we keep the core offering free (resources, tools, learning, etc.) so support is not gated by budget.
Frameworks beat opinions.
Hot takes don't scale. We publish the structures, checklists, and templates in our content library so they travel from one organization to the next without losing their integrity.
No one does this alone.
Inclusion work is isolating by default. Our monthly community call, peer threads, and member events exist so practitioners can compare notes with people who get it.
New to some of the language on this page? See our glossary of DEIA terms.
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