Services
Dr. Diversity is available to work with your company or organization.
He is popular presenter who can do high energy, fun introductory presentations on a variety of topics, an experienced consultant who can work with teams to build programs and processes, and a sought-after coach of individual leaders.
Consulting
Dr. Diversity will meet with leadership to determine what problem needs to be solved. This will be followed by a thorough needs assessment involving interviews and document reviews. A proposal for engagement will be presented. Consulting relationships typically last from a few months to a year.
Dr. Diversity has taken on a variety of consulting projects with companies and organizations. He draws upon his years of working inside corporations as a leadership development expert as well as his experience with Situational Leadership and Myers Briggs Personality Inventory. Previous consulting contracts have been focussed on themes such as formalizing a leadership development strategy, building diverse leadership teams, and cultivating diversity of thought.
Through consulting, Dr. Diversity can help you:
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Make the business case for diversity and inclusion initiatives
Diversity and inclusion initiatives can challenge the way things are done. Why go to all the effort and expense?
There are public relations and marketing advantages. There are improved ESG scores that attract investors. There is a bigger pool of people to recruit. But best of all, diverse teams are more productive and more creative.
Explore with us how D&I can improve your bottom line.
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Increase the diversity and inclusiveness of your Board of Directors
Boards that reflect the diversity of communities in which they operate are more effective and can attract investors and customers to the company. But it can be hard to find individuals from diverse populations that have the necessary qualifications. Furthermore, not every ethnic group, sexual orientation and gender identity can be represented on one board. And once boards recruit members of diverse populations, are they able to contribute?
We can help you go beyond diversity and become an inclusive Board.
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Develop a diversity and inclusion program for your company
Affirmative action hiring and mandatory diversity training can cause as much harm as good. Becoming an inclusive company requires more than a training here and a diverse person there. It requires an integrated strategy that changes expectations and modifies behaviour.
This cannot be done by an outsider, but an outsider can help by asking the right questions and sharing innovations that work. We can help you develop and implement an effective diversity and inclusion strategy.
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Recruit and retain foreign trained professionals
Professionals come to Canada from all over the world to start a new life for their family. Unfortunately, many do not find work in their area of expertise and many end up in survival jobs.
One reason this happens is acculturation. It is really hard to figure out the implicit beliefs, values and assumptions that underlie Canadian culture. Asking a Canadian to explain Canadian culture is like asking a fish to explain water – they can’t because they are immersed in it.
We can help you develop international recruiting strategies that identify professionals with the best chance of adapting to Canada and your company culture. We can also help you build a strong support system in your company to help internationally trained professionals adapt and contribute.
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Prepare staff to live and work in another country
Working in another culture can be challenging. It is a great way to develop employees and pursue new opportunities for the business, but it is expensive and can often backfire for both the individual and the business.
Culture shock is inevitable and the adaptation curve can be different for people depending upon a number of factors. People need much more than a copy of the Lonely Planet to be successful.
Dr. Diversity has over 30 years of experience coaching leaders from companies and agencies who are planning to live and work overseas.
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Improve the cultural competency of your leadership team
It can be challenging to manage a team of people who have very different ideas about how the boss should behave, how professionals talk to one another, how risk should be managed, how conflict should be resolved. We can equip your leaders with ideas such as power distance, individuality, high context communication and other concepts generated by research that will help leaders bring out the best in their diverse teams.
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Embracing the babble of diversity
The number of terms being bandied about in the Diversity and Inclusion space can be intimidating – cultural appropriation, LGBTQ2S+, cis-gendered, heteronormative, micro-aggressions, etc. This presentation helps clarify what is being talked about while making the evidence-based case that diverse teams and organizations are more productive and creative. This presentation makes the business case for diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Presentations
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Building a diverse leadership team
Building a diverse leadership team means so much more than hiring or promoting members of diverse populations into leadership positions. It means including diverse perspectives in decision making and forming trusting relationships with diverse populations. This presentation explores how to build the capacity of the entire leadership team to be inclusive through initiatives such as succession planning, community relations, retention programs and diversity hiring.
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Bringing out the best in your internationally trained employees
Based on research in the field of acculturation and years of personal experience coaching, this presentation explores the challenges that internationally trained professionals can have when trying to work in a different culture. It explores cultural differences in management style, gender roles, and workplace relationships. The presentation can be tailored to individuals making this transition or to the people helping such professionals make the transition.
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Managing diverse teams
We are not all the same – except in the most basic ways. Culture influences how we meet our physiological needs, how we achieve safety, how express love and belonging, how we express esteem and what it means to be self-actualized. In a business setting this translates to very different ways of managing employees, communicating respectfully, building relationships, negotiation, and risk mitigation. This presentation brings together a generation of scholarship and suggests practical strategies for bringing out the best in employees who have very different assumptions about how the world – and business – works.
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Culture and the clinical encounter
While most will admit that culture has some influence of how patients seek treatment and how physicians and nurses deliver care, do we really understand what culture is? Culture is not something that controls everything we do but rather something that influences our thinking and choices. It affects how patients think about their illnesses and how they expect to be treated by their care providers. It affects how care providers make diagnoses and how they communicate with patients. This presentation explores how “explanatory models of illness” can undermine compliance and how attitudes about “power distance” can distort the clinical encounter. Participants will be introduced to concrete strategies for working with patients from diverse populations.
Dr. Diversity can work with you to design a presentation that is rooted in clear business objectives. We can help with a needs assessments of potential participants. Then we can assemble a team of experts to deliver the presentation and evaluate its impact on your business.
Dr. Diversity also has a number of presentations that can be delivered with a quick turn around. These can be a great way to try out our services and see if we are a good fit with your organization.