Skill-based education enhancing inclusivity, accessibility, and impact.
A Different Kind of Different is an organization committed to inclusive and comprehensive skill-based education for corporations, non-profits, K-12 schools, universities and other institutions of higher education. Nationally known for engaging and thought-provoking workshops, their most requested topics include diversity and inclusion, capacity building assistance, public health programming, comprehensive and inclusive sex education, and tailored competence development. A Different Kind of Different provides a broad portfolio of services that include workshops, staff training, curriculum creation and review, grant writing assistance, organizational evaluations, keynote speaking, local and remote consulting, and more. Naomi Ardjomand-Kermani M.P.H. conceived and leads a Different Kind of Different as an extension of their acclaimed social justice and equity work.
Who we serve
Corporations & non-profits
Broadening perspectives from the personal to the professional, we provide capacity building services that open dialogues, reduce stigma, and improve sustainability. Some of the services we offer include risk assessment and management, local and remote consultation, diversity and inclusion skill-based training, policy revisions and assessments, and more.
colleges & Universities
A Different Kind of Different serves the needs of colleges and universities on every level. From individual classroom presentations to campus level policy reform, our curriculum engages your students, faculty, and staff in their pursuit of a more diverse and inclusive campus climate.
k-12 schools
Our most popular curriculum addresses gender; sexuality; healthy relationships and consent; and comprehensive and inclusive, medically accurate, and developmentally appropriate safer sex education. Regardless of over-arching topic, our workshops overcome barriers and increase access for students and peers. We provide safe and non-judgmental spaces for participants to engage in challenging topics in order to develop agents of change in their own communities.
About the founder
Naomi Ardjomand-Kermani, M.P.H.
(They/Them/Their/They're)
Naomi Ardjomand-Kermani is the founder of the capacity-building assistance and inclusive and comprehensive safer sex education consulting agency, A Different Kind of Different, LLC.
For nearly two decades, Naomi has been involved in social justice advocacy through their work in equity and justice as well as inclusive and comprehensive safer sex education and skill building. A graduate of New College of Florida, the honors college of Florida, Naomi studied bioinformatics and received a bachelor’s degree in biology. They went on to the University of Florida to receive their masters of public health, in social and behavioral sciences, with a focus on queer and transgender health promotion.
Independently motivated and self- taught, Naomi advocates for the improvement of age-appropriate inclusive and comprehensive sexual health curriculum in Florida’s public school system. They work tirelessly to improve quality of care and increase positive health outcomes throughout the state of Florida and beyond. They are nationally known in the diversity and inclusion community for their program design, development, and delivery of engaging and thought- provoking cultural competence workshops.
