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DIVERSITY, EQUITY, & INCLUSION

Helping you understand how to best serve all populations – both internally and externally.
The need for change within organizations is imperative when it comes to how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are approached in everything that is done. Inequitable structures and systems continue to perpetuate and support the status quo, and we can help you formulate an effective strategy and plan to improve DEI throughout your organization to foster the most inclusive community possible.
ORGANIZATIONAL CHALLENGES
  • Institutions are not student centric thus systems, curricula, and other experiences arenot designed with them in mind
  • Barriers to change and root causes aren't identified prior to change efforts
  • Disparate efforts and silos encumber coordinated change
  • Mid-level leaders aren't empowered to lead change efforts
  • Data aren't consistently used to identify areas of foc

ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS

IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT
  • Identification of barriers and actions to achieving equity in outcomes, strategic goalsand objectives.
  • Partner to develop approaches to designing, developing and implementing data driven, equitable student success plans, initiatives and/or programs
  • Facilitation of organizational, team and sensemaking discussions
COACHING: INSTITUTION & INDIVIDUAL FOCUSSED
  • Focus on root challenges and identifying barriers to identified change
  • Guide an intentional reflection and (re) design process
  • Support professional and personal development aligned with change efforts
CONSULTATION
  • Program development
  • Data use & integration
  • Organizational & equitable approaches to change
  • DEI lens on all communication & marketing tactics/messaging
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMNENT FACILITATION
  • Capacity building for faculty, staff and administrators
  • Workshops designed around identified themes intended to engage teams and leadership
  • Facilitation of communities of practice and curricula designed to support change process
  • Peer mentor training curriculum and program staff development
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT
  • Intentional design of program activities and goals aligned to data and student need
  • Implementation planning
  • Identify and develop staff and student development opportunities to support program components
  • Develop assessment and evaluation strategy
PEER MENTORING
  • Consult on and/or design peer mentoring programs based on intended outcomes
  • Devise organizational structure to oversee program including mentoring & supervision roles
TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
  • Utilize Growth by Design’s peer training curriculum contextualized to campus
  • Facilitate training workshops, mentoring sessions and ongoing growth and development opportunities for peer mentors and program staff
PROCESS MAPPING
  • Examine organizational processes to streamline operations, reduce redundancies, and improve capacity to support student success.
  • Foster cross divisional collaboration around problem definition and solution
  • Build institutional capacity to facilitate ongoing process mapping activities
Meet Melissa Welker
Melissa is the founder of Growth by Design, Independent World’s exclusive DEI parter. She has over 20 years of higher education institutional experience and 3+ years in higher education association focussd on all things Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She has extensive experience facilitating culture change and transformational efforts for organizations across a variety of industries, an fosters analytics & data capture to quantify resaults.
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