Diversity and Equality
Inclusion, Diversity, Equality & Equity: Designing Difference that Delivers
We are thought leaders and exemplary practitioners, compassionately supporting learning, strategies and effective action that enable greater equity, human flourishing and organisational effectiveness
Diversity and Inclusion is a promise, a possibility and a problem.
It is not a simple, superficial puzzle that a few "quick wins" can achieve. We believe that working with an understanding of its complexity helps avoid simplistic off-the-peg solutions. We have successfully worked with many individuals, organisations and systems in engaging with the complex challenges, honestly, irreverently, compassionately and effectively.
Our practitioners are all the same in that they bring professionalism, knowledge, skill and commitment to their work. They embody difference in ethnicity, gender, faith, class, sexual orientation and identity, disability and thought. This professionalism and diversity give our interventions a grounding in the messy, complex beauty and contradiction of human systems. Working with this reality, with a passionate belief in our ability as a species to overcome the challenges we face, gives our work real power and holistic impact.
We have a proud track record in delivering projects and programmes that lead to environments in which people are more able to bring their whole selves, including typically unrecognised perspectives and talents, to their work and their wider lives. In order for greater diversity and inclusion to become a reality there needs to be a focus on equity. We bring that focus into all aspects of our work.
We offer
Board development workshops and processes
Addressing diversity development priorities and encouraging board members to challenge perceptions, discover new possibilities, co-evolve new visions, develop transformational strategies and work effectively to achieve aspirations.
Hacking Present Paradigms – creating new futures
Team development workshops focused on empowering, unlocking and unleashing the power of teams as the essential drivers of organisational change and therefore increased equity.
Inclusive Leadership Development Programmes and Interventions
We use our four phase process of focusing on:
The Self
The Team
The Organisation
The Context
We believe that if we are to develop into more equitable organisations with practices and strategy that effectively enable that ambition to be achieved, we need to focus on each of these areas.
Whole system culture reviews - We have designed and implemented transformational diagnostic tools and processes.
Bringing in and bringing on the best talent – creating new possibilities
We need extended perspectives for recruiting, recognising and developing talent.
As well as paradigm changes in how we bring people into our organisations we need to think differently about how we treat people once they are in the organisation. These include developing the ability for all managers to create and effectively manage high performing, inclusive, equitable teams that work with the principles of a ‘Just Culture’.
Thinking differently
Going beyond to create change that actually makes a difference. Extended paradigms and strategies for Equitable Talent Management.
Empowerment work
Helping people from all backgrounds feel able to embrace and engage with the opportunities and challenges of working for greater equity. This involves increasing self-awareness and feeling equipped to have the ‘difficult’ conversations necessary for improving quality and equity.
Positive Action Programmes
We have designed and facilitated ground breaking positive action programmes for a variety of different members with protected characteristics. Our work leads the field with the application of our bespoke models, processes and pedagogy.
