
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 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...
1Free 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.
2Assessment 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
3Delivery
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.
4Evaluation
You'll regularly evaluate the effectiveness of your strategies.
5Continuous improvement
If things aren't working or could be improved, we'll help you agilely change direction.
6Review
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.

Facilitation
Develop diversity, leadership and social improvement.

Speaking
Times are changing...get an up-to-date insight about what this means for diversity,

Consulting
Anything tailored to your needs.
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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