Our services include Discovery, Education, and Consulting.
These services are a way to build and maintain the foundational phase of DEI in your organization. With each of our discovery services, you’ll receive a summary of our findings and an executive debrief for your organization’s senior leadership team.
Trainings are designed to be interactive and engaging with opportunities for breakout groups, whole group discussion, and individual reflection. There are opportunities to create training sessions demographically (caucus) or by job family/organizational level.
Learn strategies on how to navigate challenging situations when discussing complex topics at your organization. This is a foundational, yet challenging training that will help pave the way for braver conversations about DEI-related topics of interest.
In this interactive training, participants will better understand the origins of their unconscious biases as well as the impacts that can occur from our actions. They will gain better insight into common misconceptions, learn different types of unconscious biases in the workplace, and how social constructs can impact our beliefs.
Words, gestures, and actions can be perceived negatively, regardless of intent. Participants will learn strategies on how to respond to microaggressions, and how to demonstrate accountability if they are the offender of a microaggression. This training will challenge participants to shift their mindset, take accountability for their actions, and have the courage to better support underrepresented groups.
DEI training can be a lot to process. Our one-hour debrief is a virtual session held approximately one week following the training session. During the debrief, participants have an additional opportunity to speak courageously about their thoughts, and curiosity, or to ask questions. The debrief starts with a whole group discussion followed by small breakout sessions.
They are available for short or long-term consulting projects. Projects are customized to meet an organization’s needs, and can range from supporting the implementation of the strategic plan, partnering with HR or recruiting teams to help eliminate barriers and bias in the system, advising on policies, procedures, and practices to be more inclusive and equitable, handling difficult conversations, and more nuanced situations.
A DEI community group can be a DEI Council or Committee, an Employee Resource Group (ERG), or an Affinity Group. Our IDEAL consultants will work with your organization to build an understanding of the difference between the three groups, learn how to effectively launch a group, how to write charters, recruit, strategize, advocate for sponsorship, and empower from within. We’ll also work with senior leaders to understand their role, responsibility, and accountability in supporting a DEI Community Group.
