Diversity is a reality in your workplace. Are leaders and managers ready to leverage it as a business and talent driver?

Managing Diversity can take many forms:

• Differing thinking styles.
• Differing levels of experience.
• Differing cultural backgrounds (ethnicity, nationality, geography).
• Differing opinions around gender roles.
• Conscious and unconscious bias and stereotype assumptions around minorities and their “presumed” behaviors (LGBT, ethnic minorities, religious minorities).
• Differing generational approaches to work.

What do we do?

Culture and Engagement Audits

We assess your company culture and report the findings to you so that you can understand where your starting point is. This culture audit is really uncovering how work gets done, what behaviors are encouraged and who holds the power? What are the covert processes in play and how do your systems and policies support your goals?

We work with your leaders and managers to help them further develop their intercultural and gender competencies so that they can set the right tone and are equipped to support an unbiased culture where all voices can be heard. Are innovative new business ideas being is silenced because only one certain type of communication is heard?

If leaders succeed in understanding their role in creating a high performing, inclusive culture, then the firm’s employees can take up their roles in supporting a workplace based on meritocracy. Without leadership or with biased leadership, fiefdoms emerge, status quo prevails and it’s politics as usual. The result is the mental or actual resignation of great people!

Only with enlightened leadership can high performing work teams emerge, with motivated and talented employees able to feel the benefits of both cultural support and the HR team’s structural support (programs and policies).

Is your business talent driven or compliance driven?

Consulting- Interventions for lasting change.

Diversity as a leadership competence- Coaching and small group work.

We work with leaders on a one to one level to help them identify “blind spots,” so that they can lead teams and companies into the future.

We use a number of tools to facilitate this discussion with leaders in a positive and confidential environment Personal growth is the foundation of executive development.

Mekayla Castro leads our work in this space.

Employee Resource Group and other programmatic interventions.

We build and support employee networks by providing context from the culture audit and  support around structure and content. We can license content to our clients from our sister site www.theglasshammer.com  for enhanced internal network build outs.

We specialize in Gender and LGBT programs. We do not believe in “fixing” the women or gay people to fit in, but rather encourage employees to empower themselves and others within the culture that they operate in.

Specialized content can be designed and delivered by our strategic partners.

Carol Frohlinger specializes in teaching women to negotiate and excel in navigating their career proactively.

Kathleen McQuiggan specializes in business development skills for women as well as selling to women as a market segment.