Building Organizational Capacity
TO DISMANTLE SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION
“I often feel I am trapped inside someone else's imagination, and I must engage my own imagination in order to break free.”
- Adrienne Maree Brown
Turning Tides Collective
We lead with our shared humanity.
The world we live in with all of its injustices and inequities was imagined by someone else and was designed to protect their interests. It does not reflect the world that we want to live in. To change it, we must activate our own imagination and change the existing systems.
We work with organizations and leaders to imagine, develop generative spaces, and change their systems to create a culture of equity and justice that honors everyone’s humanity.
Our methodology is built on the premise that we are all capable of growth. Growth requires bravery and persistence. We help clients inhabit spaces of learning, unlearning, and relearning to bring humanity back to how organizations function.
Someone envisioned the world we live in before it came to be. Groups of people throughout history built that vision and gave us the world we now live in. We can create a new vision and a new world. We only need to ask HOW.
Offerings
Establish a program of change by creating
a culture rooted in equity and justice.
We provide client-tailored consulting services to support organizational culture and systems change to advance racial equity.
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Establish a program of change by creating a culture rooted in equity and justice. We provide tailored trauma-informed training on key concepts, such as racial and gender equity, systems and culture change, and more to build the groundwork for deeper strategic change efforts.
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In addition to training that delivers foundational understanding, we provide coaching sessions to ensure leadership and key stakeholders feel equipped to take on the charge of racial equity systems change work.
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Many of our clients come to us because of a conflict that is hindering their change efforts. These conflicts can seem insurmountable and defeat change efforts, but we believe conflict is generative and can be fertile ground for change. We support clients through these conflicts to identify the opportunities they present and the direction they provide for change work.
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Understanding stakeholders and their needs is a critical part of racial equity systems change. We can help clients design and implement stakeholder engagement plans to inform organizational development goals and strategies and sustain stakeholder relationships.
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We provide assessments that are rooted in equity and justice and support organizations to describe their context, identify needs, clarify direction, and measure strategic impact. This work includes needs assessments, organizational assessment, process evaluation, performance measurement, and impact evaluation, among other research and evaluation approaches.
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Strategic planning can be an intensive process, beginning with defining where the organization wants to go, then specifying goals and objectives, and finally developing concrete action plans to get there. We can support clients with developing and implementing a strategic plan. This can include training, coaching, stakeholder engagement, and assessment to inform the strategy and measure its success once implementation begins.
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Organizational development and culture change is our deepest level of engagement. This is where the deep work of systems and culture change happens. We help organizations shift from checking boxes to making integral changes to policies, practices and procedures. This may include training, conflict mediation, assessment, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and other approaches that inform and propel change. Organizational development and culture change processes are tailored according to each client’s needs.
Our Values
We envision a world where every person
is treated with dignity and thrives.
Our work is deeply rooted in values of care, grace, and integrity. These values ground us and guide our decision-making. Creating a capacity-building organization begins with creating a collaborative culture and building mechanisms that reward innovative, forward-thinking and adaptive behaviors. Having grace for ourselves and others allows for greater honesty, meeting one another in our humanity and growing spaces that allow for everyone in them to be whole.
