About Indigenous Workplace Solutions, LLC
Indigenous Workplace Solutions, LLC is a workplace enrichment organization that specializes in serving Native American businesses and organizations who contend with workplace challenges.
We aim to strengthen Native workplaces by focusing on empowering our clients and their respective workforce, while embracing cultural differences and to establish trustworthy and fair connections.
Our goal is to provide clarity of the difficult workplace matters, therein allowing our clients to become more informed and to identify systematic and personal barriers which cause harm to the workforce.
What sets us apart?
Indigenous Workplace Solutions, LLC is a Native Woman-Owned business that aims to empower and strengthen our Indigenous organizations by providing an unbiased and meticulous approaches designed to instill harmony into our workplaces. With combined knowledge and skillsets in Human Resources-Employee Relations, Counseling and Social Work, IWS, LLC has an in-depth awareness and understanding of workplace challenges and those it affects. As a Native operated company, we aim to establish trustworthy, respectful work environments while promoting positivity & growth through coaching toward accountability.
Indigenous Workplace Solutions, LLC stands apart of from the mainstream Human Resources support services because as Indigenous People, we understand the various cultural dynamics of our fellow Native Nations and its effects within the work environment. All IWS services are high quality, thorough and every step is taken to coach up those they work with. Services are aimed to re-create a trustworthy, respectful work environment.
CEO and Founder
Mary Descheeny-Reyna, MSW, TMP, THRP II
A member of the Navajo (Dine) Nation; where she was born and raised. She formally established Indigenous Workplace Solutions, LLC in January 2021.
Mary has combined experience in both the Human Resources-Employee Relations and in the Social Work-Counselor fields. It is this combination of knowledge and skillset that enables Mary to have an in-depth awareness and understanding in interpreting workplace challenges. She is inspired by positive, fair work environments which she desires for all Indigenous workplaces so, she invests and takes every opportunity to coach those she works with.
Mary proudly contributes her dedication, tireless work ethic and meticulous nature of her work products to her reservation upbringing. The efforts put forth at each stage of her work are high quality. Her approach emphasizes personal accountability, respectful communication, leadership development, and the shared responsibility of building healthier, more effective work environments.
Through her work, Mary brings together professional development, leadership principles, organizational assessment, and culturally grounded practices that honor the relationships, values, and responsibilities that shape workplaces in Indian Country.
Learn more about our Founder/CEO!
Special Guest on the Warm Embers Podcast w/ Tiffany Wolfe
Video Description:
Mary, CEO of Indigenous Workplace Solutions, LLC shares insights into her journey to Human Resources and becoming an entrepreneur. She discusses leadership, cultural values and ancestral resilience; this episode is full of inspiration and amazing conversation.
Our IWS's Logo
The Indigenous Workplace Solutions, LLC logo was designed with the collaborative family efforts of Katie, Kyle and Steve Reyna (proud members of Navajo/Dine Nation and the Fort Mohave Indian Tribe). It was designed to highlight the beauty of our Indigenous ways by demonstrating respect, honor, unity, and community.
Land Acknowledgement
With honor, Indigenous Workplace Solutions, LLC recognizes and respects we as Native People are the traditional stewards and caretakers of this land. All landscape images were intentionally chosen to honor our tribal lands, waters, people and ancestors.