1) Understand your current state

An EDI baseline assessment is an important first step to understanding the challenges faced by your employees or members. In order to solve a problem, we must first define it. We facilitate anonymous and confidential engagements with your employees or members to understand their lived experiences. Next, we analyze the resulting data and provide actionable recommendations. The result is a direct line of communication from your organization to senior leaders on what is working and what needs to change. Contact us to learn about how we can work with your existing data and conduct customized surveys, focus groups, or interviews to understand how everyone experiences your organization.

2) EDI strategy & leadership alignment

To effectively shift workplace culture, an organization’s equity, inclusion, and diversity strategy must be aligned and integrated throughout the business. We engage senior leaders to take the findings from the EDI baseline assessment and create a concise EDI purpose statement and EDI strategy. Prairie Catalyst can help provide your roadmap to achieve a diverse, empowered, and engaged workforce. Along the way, we also equip leaders with the language and awareness to speak confidentially about EDI advancement.

3) Engage your organization

Our experience in education and training will give your workforce or members the tools and skills to create inclusive environments. To effectively shift cultures to work for everyone, we need to engage everyone as potential allies. Whether you need training, resources, or a keynote speaker, we are here to help you engage your entire organization to begin shifting your culture. Let’s discuss options that work to help lead and inspire positive change.

4) Measure, monitor, and repeat

What gets measured gets managed and change will take time. We can help set you up for success to measure and monitor equity, diversity, and inclusion advancement in your organization. As we measuring change in a complex and every changing social setting, we need to use both qualitative and quantitative methods to measure the changes. Prairie Catalyst can support your organization with mixed-methods data collection and analysis. To effectively measure EDI advancement, we will also need to repeat EDI baseline assessments and re-evaluate engagements with leaders and the greater organization on an ongoing basis.