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Cultural Equity Strategic Plan
The beliefs and behaviors that determine an organization’s culture, values, policies and practices should be designed to ensure that all people including but not limited to those who have been historically underrepresented have the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Through conducting an internal information analysis, Corporate Leadership Cultural Assessment and Team Member Cultural Perception Check surveys, focus groups and individual interviews, Cardinal Change combines its knowledge of organizational management, historical systemic inequity and cultural equity to create an organization’s Cultural Equity Strategic Plan, which includes objectives, strategies and tactics for team member recruitment, retention and development, social responsibility, and marketplace positioning.
Incorporating Cultural Equity into the Curricula
University faculty and staff around the country have been challenged by the enormous complexity of social unrest. Cardinal Change can assist in addressing these issues by sharing frameworks for increased understanding and trusted methods to successfully engage with students and increase empathy.
Utilizing a broad communications lens, which incorporates contemporary research, industry driven professional development, and teaching expertise, Cardinal Change will provide strategies and discussion techniques for incorporating difficult topics related to race, diversity, equity and power into curricula.
Custom solutions such as workshops and training will provide faculty and staff with opportunities to self-reflect, role play, investigate micro-aggressions, bias, and engage in authentic conversations related to campus culture,
Corporate Leadership Cultural Assessment Survey
Strong corporate leaders who believe in, understand and want to build an organization with a culturally equitable foundation must be willing to reflect upon their personal and professional biases and take action to intentionally overcome those biases.
The results of the Corporate Leadership Cultural Assessment Survey will provide insight into the organization's cultural climate, Cardinal Change will use these insights to guide leadership in their efforts to close awareness gaps and take action to demonstrate their support of cultural equity as individuals and as leaders of the organization.
The CLC Assessment Survey establishes benchmarks for measurement of future growth and further exploration as the company embarks its journey to be more culturally inclusive and equitable..
Team Member Cultural Perception Check Survey
Cultural Perception Check Survey is designed to assess team members' opinions, beliefs, and behaviors related to the organization’s culture, equity and social responsibility. Insights gained from the “Check” will assist with engaging team members and leadership with creating and implementing the organization's Cultural Equity Strategic Plan.
Title IX DEI Bias Prevention Program
Cardinal Change offers the Title IX DEI Bias Prevention Program, which is a unique, comprehensive, and multifaceted program of bias prevention for educational institutions. The program includes training for the institutional participants in the Title IX program (specifically the Title IX Coordinator, investigators, advisors, hearing officers, decisionmakers, and informal resolution facilitators), assessment of the institution's Title IX program and policies to identify any possible bias indicators, and the development of solutions to prevent bias from creeping into the Title IX program.