DEI Organizational Survey
Our customizable DEI organizational survey is designed to provide a baseline snapshot of the current state of DEI in an organization.
Listening Sessions
We conduct anonymous focus group sessions designed to listen to stakeholders to gain insight into organizations’ issues, opportunities, and growth areas.
Equity Scan
We develop customized organizational equity scans that look at broad or specific policies and processes that impact an organization’s equity footprint.
ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP + CHANGE WORK
Using an equity lens, we design and facilitate change processes that empower organizations to reimagine and transform existing systems, structures, processes, and policies so that they align with their aspirational DEI values.
Responsive coaching
We provide individual, responsive coaching sessions for senior leadership, management, and staff members on navigating issues related to diversity, equity, inclusions, and belonging.
Foundational workshops
Comprise of three “101 sessions” on identity, language, and allyship.
Customized Workshops & Retreats
TS will design customized workshops for a client’s specific needs. These often connect to the intersection of DEI, leadership, management, and organizational development.
Approach
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We use interactive training modalities to facilitate authentic intergroup dialogue that strengthen individuals, teams, and organizations.
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We unearth and understand the issue through interviews, surveys and discovery sessions.
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We identify key challenges and opportunities.
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We provide our partners with ongoing technical support to generate and implement their own solutions.
Our Three DEI Competencies
In our experience, DEI work falls under three competencies—knowledge, culture and structure. Every institution is at a different point in its journey and we see our role as helping our partners discover where they are and determine what work needs to be done to meet their goals.
Knowledge
Organizations need their people to gain knowledge, skills and competencies around diversity, inclusion and equitable practices. Knowledge work can be delivered through interactive in-person trainings, webinars and the creation of custom curricula that ranges from basic definitions and language level setting, to historical context, dialogue and facilitation skills.
Culture
When an organization commits to DEI as a value, thinking about how inclusion is felt and seen in its workplace becomes imperative. Culture work builds the community to bring the organization’s values to life. It typically begins with discussion based workshops and retreats. It is sustained through self-led cohorts and team building initiatives.
Structure
In order to fulfill the “E” in DEI—organizations must assess, eliminate or transform policies and systems that operationalize inequity. Structural transformation requires research, analysis, testing, implementation and iteration. Structural work heavily involves leadership from all departments over sustained periods of time.