Our Holistic Approach
Diagnosis
It's tough work to change. We use multiple methodologies to collaboratively develop a current snapshot of your organization.
Design
We recognize the importance of a measurable plan. That’s why we map out a strategy and series of checkpoints to measure success and evaluate progress.
Delivery
With an understanding of the situation (diagnosis) and a plan for moving forward (design), our delivery produces results that create comprehensive and sustainable change.
Diversity and Inclusion Consulting
If you can’t feel it, you can’t change it.
Diversity and Inclusion Consulting is a hands-on, collaborative relationship. We work with you to gain a full understanding of your organizational goals, internal culture and external impetus for diversity and inclusion consulting.
Our Approach:
We link intellectual understanding, emotional response and action taking to develop a sustained effort for systemic change. Using the “Difference Circle,”© we lay the foundational framework to:
- Re-imagine equity concepts
- Re-define dominant thought patterns
- Re-script organizational norms
- Re-construct and close gaps between mission and values
What the client can expect:
- A safe environment for open dialogue;
- Tools for participants to understand default judgments;
- A head, heart and hands approach undergirded with theories, conceptual models and cultural frameworks;
- Knowledgable guidance from experts. Cheryl Harris is co-author and designer of Boston city-Wide Dialogues on Racial and Ethnic Diversity.
The Benefits:
- Improve organization's negotiation of power differentials
- Increased awareness of unconscious biases that impact the organizational culture
- Ability to see an alternative vision and social structure within organizational systems
- Additional tools and resources to move from the experiential to the practical