Group - Diversity New Zealand Copy

Our offer
Increasing understanding of diversity for organisations

ORGANISATIONAL STRATEGY AND DEVELOPMENT
Why?
Cultures are becoming more and more intermingled; gender and sexual identity are now far more openly fluid; the complexity of our ability to function is increasing as we live longer due to technological and medical advancements.

Our current work »
Our style of working is light and engaging — yet apposite and revealing. We work with our clients to increase belonging by:
Understanding a unique approach to diversity

Developing leadership capacity

Building environments of trust, openness, curiosity and inquiry

Creating the conditions needed to embrace complexity, uncertainty and social improvement

Greeting the future with confidence and curiosity
Developing new ways to think about ourselves and others — in the context of our future, our teams, communities or organisations — increases well-being and relationships.
How we work
No tick boxes, no tokenism, no tricky techniques. We're casual yet effective. But here's the spiel...

1
Free initial consultation
Talk to us about what changes you want to make to your diversity profile – your own competency and confidence, team, project or organisation. We'll negotiate cost and work alongside you from here.
2
Assessment and agreement
You'll map your current state and come up with how you want to work with us to increase diversity competence and confidence in creating short-, medium- and long-term strategies. We provide:
leadership development
consulting/advising
stock take and gap analysis
mentoring/coaching
facilitation/speaking
PR & social media
and other services
3
Delivery
You'll be confident to implement your strategies. Some things you can do, other things we'll coach you to do and give constructive feedback along the way.
4
Evaluation
You'll regularly evaluate the effectiveness of your strategies.
5
Continuous improvement
If things aren't working or could be improved, we'll help you agilely change direction.
6
Review
At a pre-determined date, you'll review your progress and decide with us what your next steps are.
Why, how and what we do for you
We create social improvement where all people freely share and celebrate their identity and self-expression....no need to take it too seriously.

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What you get
Our expertise and passion are to support you to actively respond to a changing world that is getting more and more diverse.
You will:
develop healthy working relationships
oil the engine of a small project team
nurture confidence in negotiating diverse situations
make sure the language you use is affirming and appropriate
get things wrong and recover
assess whether what you do encompasses everyone and not just the "average"
You'll access a range of other services, using diversity and equitable participation as a platform:
thought leadership and capacity development to enhance diversity and lead social improvement
strategic, research and policy advice
developmental evaluation
public speaking, keynotes and participatory workshops
mentoring and coaching
project and process management
online systems, web design and social media
collaborating on projects with a diversity kaupapa
designing and facilitating entertaining team-building experiences
writing and editing diversity-related copy
Current work
Co-direction of Be. Lab's Be. Leadership programme
Management of End-of-Choice Society's website and social media
Agitating for a yes-yes referendum
Waiting for the next thing to come along «your thing here»
Key past work
Health Research Council's Development Group
Working with NZ Transport Agency to provide inclusive access, enabling all people to participate in society through access to social and economic opportunities, with Ipsos.
Brand audit of accessable with Ipsos
Keynotes and workshops for University of Auckland, AUT University, Epsom Girls Grammar, TEDxAuckland (view Philip's TEDTalk); Auckland Careers and Transition Educators; St John Ambulance Regional Managers and its leadership team; community arts practitioners; mental health, disability and addiction services; and more.
With whom
We've worked with individuals, teams, organisations, media, schools, communities and Government to embrace diversity as a way to create better environments, relationships, outcomes and more.
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