CULTIVATING
Adaptive Leadership Series
Who is this for?: Senior Leaders
What will we explore?: Building leadership capacity by learning about the adaptive leadership framework, which encourages leaders to embrace complexity, uncertainty, and adaptive thinking in order to drive meaningful and sustainable change.
Estimated engagement: 3-6 Months
Leadership and/or Staff Retreats
Who is this for?: Senior Leaders, People Managers, All Staff
What will we explore?: Our retreats are curated to meet the specific needs of our clients. A retreat’s focus can be broad, such as regrounding in organizational values and strategic planning, or address a specific aspect of organizational culture, such as communication or equity centered initiatives. No matter the focus area, our retreats are thoughtfully designed and skillfully facilitated to support your team in building community, having important conversations to increase clarity and alignment, and having fun while doing so!
Estimated engagement: 1-3 Days
DEI Action Plan Development
(follow up to DEI & Cultural Climate Assessment)
Who is this for?: Board of Directors, Senior Leaders
What will we explore?: Leveraging the results of the cultural climate assessment, you will work alongside our team of experts to develop a DEI Action Plan that drives your organization’s work forward.
Estimated engagement: 3-6 Months
People Managers DEI Development Series
Who is this for?: People Managers
What will we explore?: This series focuses on the pivotal role that People Managers play in supporting an executive team’s vision of how to center equity throughout the organization. Content focuses on key elements of implementing the plan and common scenarios that occur when change is made – and building capacity to navigate those situations successfully.
Estimated engagement: 3-6 Months
DEI & Board Governance
Who is this for?: Board of Directors
What will we explore?: We will equip your board with the knowledge, tools, understanding, and capacity to govern your organization through an equity, inclusion, and antiracism lens. This comprehensive series focuses on your organization's unique needs and the critical importance of committed DEI leadership for transformative impact.
Estimated engagement: 3-6 Months
Operationalizing an Element of your Equity Action Plan Series
(follow up to DEI Action Plan Development)
Who is this for?: Board of Directors, Senior Leaders, People Managers
What will we explore?: In this series, leaders will engage in the process of creating clear goals and relevant timelines to accomplish a specific priority from your DEI Action Plan. Rooted in Equity will provide implementation guidance and best practices to maximize impact and equitable outcomes.
Estimated engagement: 3-6 Months
All Staff DEI Training
Who is this for?: Full Staff
What will we explore?: We will create an opportunity for organization-wide learning. You will collaborate with Rooted in Equity to curate training topics that best support your DEI goals and initiatives.
Estimated engagement: 3-6 Months
DEI & Philanthropy/Grantmakers
Who is this for?: Philanthropic Organizations, Foundations, & Grantmaking Agencies
What will we explore?: We will establish foundational knowledge on DEI topics to build capacity for philanthropic entities to make more equitable funding decisions and more inclusively support the communities they serve.
Estimated engagement: 3-6 Months
Developing a Power Analysis / Power Sharing
Who is this for?: Board of Directors, Senior Leaders
What will we explore?: You will work alongside Rooted in Equity to build capacity to identify better understand and address the various ways power dynamics impact your organization. Identify areas where increased awareness, thorough analysis, and targeted action can support your organization in honoring its DEI commitments to staff the communities it serves.
Estimated engagement: 2-4 Months
Creating a Culture of Feedback Series
Who is this for?: Senior Leaders, People Managers
What will we explore?: This series explores Kim Scott’s Radical Candor framework and the ways it can be applied within organizations to improve their internal culture and get better results.
Estimated engagement: 2-4 Months
White / BIPOC Affinity Group ERG Development & Support
Who is this for?: Senior Leaders, People Managers
What will we explore?: This series is relevant to organizations seeking to create or revamp employee resource groups (ERGs) that support multiple identities. Leaders will work alongside Rooted in Equity to build capacity to develop and implement an ERG program uniquely designed for your organization.
Estimated engagement: 2-4 Months
White Racial Identity Development Series
Who is this for?: Senior Leaders, People Managers, All Staff
What will we explore?: A deep dive into Racial identity development, which refers to the belief systems that evolve within people of the same racial identity as a result of society’s messages about race. This series provides white staff a chance to explore what it means to have been socialized as white in American society with a white facilitator.
This series creates space for white people to deepen their self-awareness about race in general and whiteness in particular. When white people better understand both, it allows them to better understand their role in creating an equitable and inclusive work environment and to work on multiracial teams.
Estimated engagement: 2-4 Months
Policy & Practice Review with a DEI Lens
Who is this for?: Senior Leaders, People Managers
What will we explore?: We will conduct an audit of current policies and practices – reviewing them through a DEI lens of equity, inclusion, and antiracism. Uncovering opportunities to make adjustments in order to more effectively support organizational DEI initiatives and outcomes.
Estimated engagement: 2-4 Months
WSC Traits & Detour Spotting
Who is this for?: Senior Leaders, People Managers, Full Staff
What will we explore?: We will establish an understanding of the traits of white supremacy culture (WSC) in order to recognize when they are showing up, and build capacity to disrupt the ways in which these traits manifest in the workplace.
Estimated engagement: 2-4 Months
Strategic Planning
Who is this for?: Board of Directors, Senior Leaders
What will we explore?: Comprised of various disciplines, this series guides leaders in seamlessly integrating DEI-focused thinking into their organizational strategic planning processes. Participants will learn practical strategies to align organizational goals with DEI principles, fostering innovation, resilience, and sustainable growth.
Estimated engagement: 2-4 Months
Strategic Planning
DEI & Budgeting Workshop
Who is this for?: Board of Directors, Senior Leaders
What will we explore?: We will learn more about building equity, inclusion, and antiracism initiatives into the budgeting process and thoughtfully allocating resources to ensure your DEI initiatives’ success.
Estimated engagement: 3-6 Hours