More about Becky

Becky Shuster launched Home Ground Consulting in 2024 after over three decades fostering welcoming workplaces, colleges and schools through civil rights compliance, equity-based decision-making, proactive diversity and inclusion efforts, and management coaching. By crafting comprehensive policies, implementing detailed protocols to investigate and address potential bias-based or sexual misconduct, providing skills-based training and age-appropriate instruction, and empowering leaders, she leaves each office, campus, and classroom with the tools to ensure that all who enter can thrive. 

​

Under her leadership from 2015 to 2024, the Boston Public Schools' Office of Equity addressed thousands of student and employee requests for assistance, including investigating student and employee concerns, applying an equity lens to key initiatives, facilitating inclusive team-building, responding to accommodation requests, mediating conflicts, and training and coaching principals and department heads. 

 

Becky’s prior work includes fifteen years as director of training at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), where she delivered hundreds of internal and external training programs. Highlights of her tenure include leading the award-winning twelve-day MCAD-Certified Courses for Equal Employment Opportunity Professionals attended by hundreds of attorneys and human resources managers each year, and co-founding the Citywide Dialogues on Boston's Ethnic and Racial Diversity.

 

Becky’s previous experience includes serving as deputy director of training and organizational development at DSZ, Inc., a national civil rights consulting firm; an equal rights officer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency; and co-director of the Massachusetts Legal Services Diversity Coalition.

​

Becky holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University, and an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is a certified mediator, and a licensed school superintendent. Becky lives in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, and is the proud mother of a college sophomore.