ISSUES WE CAN ADDRESS
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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB)
Synchronized team effort
Is everyone on the same page for DEIB? How do we improve organizational effectiveness and morale?
Inclusive products & services
Do all of your products and services qualify as inclusive in today's world?
Disability access
Want to improve and address disability access across your organization for all stakeholders (employees and customers alike)?
Intersectionality
Want to see how your policies and practices affect multiple minorities (e.g., women of color, pregnant women, racial minorities with disabilities, etc.)?
DEIB 2.0
Has your organization taken the training and hired the DEIB staff, but you are not seeing the results that you want?
Eliminating pay gaps
Want to figure out how to eliminate pay gaps across your whole organization and all of its stakeholders?
Subject matter experts can't do it all
You are a DEIB manager, HR, or lawyer who is overwhelmed.
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You need someone to bring together cross-functional teams.
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You can't do it all alone.
Change Readiness
Before setting yourself up for failure, discover whether you and/or your organization are ready, able, and willing to implement change around DEI or anti-discrimination efforts and what needs to happen to make sure you are ready for such transformation.
Systemic reform
System-wide review to ensure that all policies, practices, processes, and structures support organizational DEIB efforts.
CSR/ESG and social governance
Want to improve your company's corporate social and governance ratings and its approach to handling these issues?
Identity & Values-Based Conflicts
Discrimination complaint
Are you a party to a discrimination complaint or lawsuit and want a third-party neutral to help you and the opposing party to settle the case without a judge making the decision?
Geopolitical conflicts
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What do you do when an external, geopolitical conflict spills over into your organization?
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These longstanding conflicts have spilled over into the company and impacted teamwork or morale.
Widespread organizational conflict
You need a mediator to resolve
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a cross-cultural conflict (e.g., amongst individuals of different races or religions),
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amongst multiple stakeholders,
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affecting many parts of an organization, and
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is a long-standing or long-term conflict
Coaching for conflict resolution practitioners
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Are you an peacebuilding or ADR practitioner who needs a coach to plan how you want to run a mediation or plan a dispute resolution process?
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Do you want integrate inclusivity in your dispute resolution processes?
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Do you want to address your own biases as a third-party neutral?
Religious divisions
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Are you a member or leader of a faith group or organization who wants to resolve differences or improve your relationship with another faith group or organization?
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Have you been losing your morale authority, losing followers, or feel like your organizations/factions would be stronger together?
Federal Civil Rights & EEO Compliance
What's happening: Federal contractors and recipients of federal funds (e.g., disaster funding, COVID funding, PPP loans, etc.) are often required to comply with federal civil rights and nondiscrimination laws (e.g., pay equity, disability hiring, nondiscrimination) as a condition of receiving federal money or contracts. If not, they can be suspended or debarred, and their relationship with the US government as a contractor or recipient of federal funds can be cut off in the future. The Biden administration has vowed to eliminate systemic discrimination and has made moves to do so.
Who you are: federal contractor and recipient of federal funds who wants to be proactive in eliminating systemic discrimination in your organization.
Your Goal:
(A) Don't get suspended or debarred (i.e., keep a business relationship with the government in the future)
(B) Review and update your current organization's practices, policies, and structure; and
(C) Figure out what to do for everyday operations.
Note: Big Little Insights does not give legal advice.
Achieving Grand Social Visions
Social entrepreneurship & leadership
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Your company has an active social justice stance to eliminate inequality
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You feel overwhelmed or outnumbered when your competitors don’t care about inequality.
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You want to make a difference but want to be sustainable and make a profit with limited resources.
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You want to figure out how to incorporate social values into the whole company (internal and external stakeholders).
Leveling up impact
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Your company has been a leader in social good and governance
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Now you want to take it to the next level and have a social justice lens throughout your entire organization (internal and external stakeholders).
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You are not sure where to start or focus, need help to action, and actualize our vision.
Social justice teamwork & collective action
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Various groups want to come together to figure out a collective strategy to combat a specific civil rights or other social justice matter and want to coordinate their resources and strategy.
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They want someone to help them think through how they should allocate their resources, strategy, and jointly work together to divide and conquer or company together.
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They may need help putting aside or dealing with long-standing tensions or conflicts.
Aligning Mission with Actions
Seismic Social Shifts
Disasters & emergenciesÂ
Are you part of an organization that is trying to figure out how to make decisions related to emergencies and disasters that could affect vulnerable populations?
Planning for vulnerable populations
A company saw what happened to peers that failed to plan for vulnerable populations in their decisions. It wants to review how it currently deals with vulnerable populations, where it can incorporate that consideration into their corporate processes, and how it can implement this new approach.
COVID aftermath
Has COVID thrown your company for a loop? Are you looking for a way to manage this constantly changing situation with overwhelming number of competing stakeholders and unknown factors?
How to deal with social movements
Social movements, such as BLM and Me Too happened. Now what? As an organization, you want to figure out what you want, can, or need to change in light of those movements.
Growing Companies
Growth spurt bust
Is your company feeling the negative impacts of growing too fast (e.g., many discrimination complaints)?
Growing pains
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Are you a leader of a company that is socially minded and wants to be competitive with larger companies?
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Most hires up until now have been friends or family.
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You’ve been told your company needs a Diversity & Inclusion employee but are not sure why.
Values alignment
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Does your company need help discovering its identity/values or living out our corporate values?
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Are you doing what your advertise in recruiting or state in our corporate values?
Founders conflicts
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Disagreements about how the company should move forward
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Pending decisions about the company's identity
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Co-founders with conflicting values
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Are the conflicts getting so bad that it is affecting the company and its future?
Coaching for Individuals
Practicing what your preach and the Golden Rule
Are you someone who believes in the Golden Rule or Platinum Rule but wants to integrate that into your life? Do you want to practice what you preach?
Inclusive leadership
Are you someone who wants to become an inclusive leader or cultivate inclusive leadership in your organization?
Defining allyship
Are you a member of a privileged group who wants to figure out how to use your privilege for good? You want to figure out what it means, how to do it, and how to treat others.
How to respond when faced with injustice & inequality
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Are you a member of a vulnerable population?
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Do you want to be coached so that you can figure out for yourself how to deal gracefully with injustice and inequality you are or have faced due to your protected class (e.g., gender, race, disability)?
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Have you recently become disabled and want to figure out how to thrive in your new normal?
Improving conflict management skills
Are you an executive who wants to be coached on improving your conflict management skills and skills to ensure that you don't retaliate against employees who bring complaints?