Cases: Designing diversity & inclusion strategies
In Brattleboro, Vermont, we designed and facilitated two, 3-hour educational sessions for the leadership team of the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union to increase their skills and knowledge applying a strategic approach to the why, what, and how of achieving diversity and inclusion in school systems.
For a network of diversity professionals in the West Coast, we implemented a day-long workshop to educate them on the meaning of class and the ways in which class can be addressed to engage workers and disaffected employees. Our educational sessions do not offer superficial solutions, like changing titles from employee to associates, but teach about the structure of class in organizations, how it hinders participation, involvement, and respect of all employees, and what can be done about it.
To read more about this intervention, please refer to Class: "A difference that makes a difference" in organizations. The Diversity Factor, 10(2), 28-34, Holvino, 2002.
At a telecommunications company headquartered in the United States we worked with the staff of the Diversity Unit to design a global diversity strategy to implement in other countries and cultural context. The model we developed was used...
