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 managers 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
Co-Founder
Gabby brings the practitioner lens that keeps Belonging Works grounded in what actually happens inside organizations. Her work spans ERG leadership, inclusive design, and the hard, often invisible labour of making belonging real.
She leads how the community shows up, what the tools feel like to use, and how we keep our promise that members get value the day they sign up.
What we believe
The principles behind every tool we ship.
Belonging is built, not declared.
Posters and panels do not 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 free so support is not gated by budget.
Frameworks beat opinions.
Hot takes do not scale. We publish structures, checklists, and templates that travel from one organization to the next without losing their integrity.
No one does this alone.
Inclusion work is isolating by default. Our community calls, peer threads, and member events exist so practitioners can compare notes with people who get it.
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