Services

Program Management

  • DEI Committees

    Receive capacity-building training that equips your commitee or council to do the work.

  • Employee Resource Groups

    Position your ERGs as strategic business partners advancing organizational goals through collective innovation.

  • Recruitment and Retention

    Attract talent and re-imagine recruitment and retention strategy.

  • Awareness Building

    Create a program series that educates your community about the ways difference makes a difference.

Learning and Development (Training) Solutions

Virtual, In-Person, Hybrid

Introductions and Fundamentals

All learning and development sessions include a free consultation to create a customized curriculum for each client’s specific needs and desired outcomes. Topics are examples of delivered sessions.

Topics include:

  • Cultural Humility and Self-Awareness

  • The Awareness Continuum

  • Anatomy of an Ally

  • Getting DEIB Buy-In from Leadership

Foundational: 2 - 3 Module Programs

Learn skill-building with desired outcomes to help develop your team. Our customized mini-series options deliver scaffolded learning and development programs that facilitate opportunities for self-reflection and perspective-taking. Sessions include activities guiding participants towards action planning and considering next steps and areas of future focus. These mini-series are a great option for recently-formed DEIB teams and ideally, their respective leadership responsible for facilitating accountability and socialization to understand and support key DEIB essentials. Leadership sessions include leadership practices, facilitating organizational accountability, and leveraging positional capital for change agency.  

 Topics include:

  • Moving from Compliance to Inclusion

  • Embedding Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging into Your Organizational DNA

  • DEIB Action Planning: The Basics

  • Change Visioning Toward Your Goals

Capacity-Building and Change Agency Solutions

These comprehensive (multi-module) customized programs use our Solution Circles model to provide DEIB teams and personnel foundational training, including facilitated opportunities to engage leadership in collaborative strategic and action planning. Programs are designed for organizations ready to move into substantive action planning with the goal of organizational transformation through our Innovation Forums.

 

Topics include:

  • Organizational Culture and Belonging: the Role of Socialization

  • Words that Matter: Creating a Culture of Inclusive Language

  • Spending Your Capital: Leveraging Relative Privilege for Allyship, Action, and Coalition Building

  • Change Management, Leadership, and Agency for Effective DEIB Strategies

Train the Trainer

Combined with the Capacity-Building and Change Agency solutions as a foundation, this program is designed for teams tasked with executing DEI programs in their organizations through learning and development.

 Topics include:

  • Beginning at the Beginning: Self-Awareness for DEIB Leadership

  • Dialogue Facilitation and Mediation Skills

  • Goal-aligned Curriculum Development

  • Learning and Development Objectives and Evaluation

Real-Time Strategic Advisement, Coaching, and Development

Designed for DEIB professionals, teams, and optimally designed for those who have completed our Foundational and Capacity-Building Programs, these client-driven advisory sessions provide long-term support for sustaining strategic and action planning. Session length ranges from 60 – 90 minutes, and provide flexibility for attendees (i.e. scheduling sessions for different groups or audiences), topic exploration for immediate application, resource development, and general guidance.  Advisement is customized for each team, initiative, or individual developmental and initiative goals.

Strategy Execution and Maintenance: Fractional DEI Leadership

Congratulations! You’ve begun your DEIB journey. You may have strategic goals and a budget, but aren’t quite sure where or how to get started.

 Queries may include:

  • How can I integrate inclusive practices into my organizational strategy and culture?

  • How do I execute strategies and tactics? How do we measure success?

  • How do I build out programs and strategy?

  • Where can I use data to substantiate my work?

  • How do I get people comfortable talking about diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging?

Embedded DEIB support through fractional (i.e. part-time) leadership affords the ongoing expertise to help catalyze action planning, strategy execution, and organizational change. Recognizing effective and sustainable DEIB efforts take time to build, implement, and evaluate, these multi-year strategies are collaboratively developed and designed for execution over time. Longer-term engagements also ensure integration of change management strategies for sustainable efforts.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Events and Coalition Building

Want to engage your organization though large-group dialogue such as a summit, town hall, large-group facilitation, restorative discussions, or caucuses for inter-group community building? Skilled facilitators work with you and your team to identify the problems you’re trying to solve, skills you’re trying to build, and optimal conditions for best-case outcomes.

Thought Leadership and Speaking Engagements

Need a speaker to help introduce, inspire, or catalyze your DEIB efforts? Engagements include interactive keynotes, “fireside” chats with leaders, and opportunities for participant engagement via virtual and in-person delivery. Events and engagements can be paired with customized learning and development opportunities related to explored concepts and topics.

Higher Education Programs and Services

Leverage decades of collective experience in K-12, 2-year and 4-year higher education institutions, our DEIB and Inclusive Excellence capacity-building programs fortify existing efforts towards creating more intentionally inclusive campuses. Working in tandem with your institution’s DEIB unit, designee, or committee, these services help to create and execute data-driven, climate-based efforts for faculty, staff, and administration through data insights, learning and development, and related programming.

Campus Climate Assessment, Reporting, and Planning

Through an exclusive partnership with Viewfinder Campus Climate Surveys, institutions can customize their data collection tools, make a case for inclusive excellence with actionable data, and begin creating strategies toward developing inclusive efforts among students,  faculty, staff and administrators.

 Packages include:

  • Step-by-step climate survey execution guidance including steering committee development, survey creation and deployment, and maximizing student and employee engagement

  • Application of survey findings to meet strategic goals

  • Development of executive summaries and reports, including options by unit

  • Presentation templates, suggested marketing materials, and branding

Campus Learning and Development

With programs structurally based upon our innovative learning and development solutions, customized plans for engaging campus personnel (i.e. faculty, staff, and administrators) create opportunities for facilitating student success through inclusive excellence and equity-minded principles. Campus learning and development solutions can be coupled with keynotes and related speaking engagement topics, providing opportunities for participants to apply explored concepts.  

 Topics include:

  • Introduction to Inclusive Excellence

  • Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

  • Actualizing Equity and Inclusion with the 4Ps

  • Applying Equity-Mindedness and Inclusion to Student Success: What Can I Do?

  • Mitigating Bias in Teaching and Learning

  • Collective Accountability for Institutional Change

Project-Based Leadership Development

Traditionally, leadership development programs designed for People of Color do not afford participants an opportunity to shape curriculum or content, contribute to the co-creation of organizational culture, or determine how their experience will specifically be applied. Many programs demonstrate employees’ ability to demonstrate their knowledge, skills, and abilities within an existing organizational culture that may not be intentionally inclusive – or allow for full authenticity.

Through our facilitative process, employees of color select, develop, and execute projects and efforts affecting their respective organization, while centering their experiences - and are guided through the journey of working collaboratively with their organization’s culture-affecting and talent development influencers.

 Topics include:

  • Developing a “Calling In” Culture: Solving for Organizational Microaggressions

  • Why Are They Leaving? Retention Solutions for People of Color

  • Please Don’t Touch My Hair: Integrating an Understanding of Cultural Norms