DEIA Strategy and Roadmap

DEIA is the 10x strategy for organizational change, whether the business objectives are equity, innovation, resilience, or agility.

Our 30/90 day Compass for Agility approach helps you create both an integrated business value proposition as well as people-centered objectives. You’ll get a more accurate picture of your current state and chart the journey to bridge the gap between  your vision and reality.

We co-create with you so that you’re building fluency and internal capability with measurable results.  We help your people help themselves, and each other to continue to grow in the DEIA journey.

Our DEIA products and services are designed to facilitate this journey, for every one, for every community and for every organization that wants to be better. We can help, but we cannot do it for you. Your commitment and our expertise can make the difference.

Bumps and Barriers

Foundational 1-2 day workshop that focuses on DEI as a way to enhance collaboration and reduce friction within any workplace. We address unconscious biases, structural dynamics and other core DEIA topics through the lens of “how could we better achieve our shared work objectives” instead of as a compliance-driven activity.

This approach, focusing DEI as how not why, is designed optimally for teams that work together, either in performing similar functions or in having similar responsibilities since it serves as a shared experience for further exploration and learning.

Strategy for DEIA

We will co-create a DEIA strategy that will start off in the boardroom but will also resonate in the breakroom. Our approach to DEIA is designed for organizational leaders who are responsible for the creation and implementation and will include individuals at all levels of the organization.

With our Wicked Agility approach, we recognize that DEIA is both a cultural transformation as well as a iterative process improvement effort. Our dual-track approach provides sustainable process improvement and shift in systemic mindset. Our co-created outcome is a strategic roadmap why, what and how for accountability and execution.

DEIA Initiative

For organizations and leaders committed to delivering results, we join you for this immersive and intensive approach to create a more equitable, diverse, accessible and inclusive organization.

We commit to identifying and removing systemic barriers along five key business process: recruitment, hiring, onboarding, retention and promotion. Building on our Lean and Agile foundational capabilities, we assess the alignment between the current state of these processes and the targeted outcome. In a parallel effort, we leverage our Culture Co-Lab toolkit to infuse key behavioral shifts and cultivate internal ambassadors.

Book Recommendations

  • Allies and Advocates by Amber Cabral

    Allies and Advocates: Creating an Inclusive and Equitable Culture delivers a powerful and useful message about inclusion and diversity in everyday life. Author Amber Cabral, a celebrated inclusion strategist, speaker, and writer, shows readers how to move away from discriminatory and unjust behaviors to supporting and building meaningful connections with people across our diverse backgrounds and identities.

    Readers of Allies and Advocates will benefit from the book's: Straight-forward style and applicable action items; Real-world examples highlighting inclusion best practices; Implementable tactics to assist people in seeing how they can help create an inclusive environment

  • Beyond Sticky Notes: Co-Design for Real: Mindsets, Methods and Movements by Kelly McKercher

    Co-design is a transformative, community-centred design method which is much discussed - yet rarely practised authentically. Beyond Sticky Notes teaches you what co-design is and how to do it. Packed full of useful tips, clear diagrams, and practical frameworks, this book will help you lead collaborative design work, and genuinely share power.A useful book for new and experienced practitioners alike, Beyond Sticky Notes is a definitive guide to the mindsets, methods, and social movements of co-design.

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    How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi

    From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a refreshing approach that will radically reorient America on the urgent issues of race, justice, and equality.

    Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. Instead of working with the policies and system we have in place, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.

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    Inclusive 360 by Bernadette Smith

    To be Inclusive 360 is to embed DEI strategies in every department of an organization. It is to be holistically and systematically equitable, inclusive, diverse, and antiracist. Organizations that are Inclusive 360 live their values not only with their employees but also with their customers and suppliers. True inclusion requires a multi-layered approach that should touch every person within the organization.

    Becoming Inclusive 360 is not a one-and-done, but this book will provide you with clear ideas that will move every department of your organization forward towards justice.