Consulting Services DRAFT - Equity Accelerator

Consulting Services

Whether your organization is looking to shift cultural norms, attract and retain diverse talent, improve customer or student experiences, or provide training, we want to help.

Our evidence-based consulting approach draws from social and behavioral sciences and research to inform our process and help you create and sustain a Culture of Growth to achieve your organizational goals. Our interdisciplinary team of experts will collaborate with you to implement high-impact, low-lift approaches that are practical, adaptable, and integrate into what you're already doing.

We have worked with all types of organizations–from large corporations and universities to small startups and nonprofits–to apply our proven science-based approach to organizational change. Our work is designed to work in all industries and can be adapted to make sense for your specific environment.

Why is your organization's culture important?

64% of organizations who adopt a growth mindset culture report higher productivity and performance, and 58% cite improved employee engagement as a benefit (Gallup)
89% of senior leaders agree that future business success will depend on leaders who embody a growth mindset (Gallup)
While 96% of executives believe they have a growth mindset, only 45% of employees think that their executives demonstrate a growth mindset (TalentLMS)

Our Consulting Services

CULTURE BENCHMARKING AND ANALYSIS

What is your organization’s current mindset culture? We support organizations in understanding the current state of the practices, policies, norms, and mindset beliefs and their impact on your culture. We help you to better understand and work to improve your organization-wide culture, and/or specific programs, departments and processes through qualitative and quantitative benchmarking and analysis.

Mindset Culture Climate Survey - better understand your work environment and gain insights on how to improve aspects of your organization’s mindset culture.
Mindset Culture Cues Audit - identify the policies, practices, and norms in place and whether they’re pushing your organization more toward their fixed or growth mindset.
Survey Design, Implementation, and Analysis - develop targeted surveys to better understand how a particular program or process is impacting your organization’s mindset culture.

LEADERSHIP ALIGNMENT

Leaders, faculty, and other culture creators have a disproportionate impact on your organization culture. It’s important for culture creators to align on their shared goals and collectively commit to modelling the culture that will enable those goals. We support teams in assessing and understanding the current state of their organization’s mindset culture, aligning on a desired culture that is supportive of your organization goals, and creating customized strategies that support you in reaching your desired culture.

Strategic Alignment Facilitation - help culture creators align on desired organization goals, values, desired culture, and associated strategies to help with cohesive decision making and effective organizational direction.
Cultures of Growth Coaching - offer personalized guidance and support to help leaders, managers, faculty, and other culture creators move towards a growth mindset, better understand their triggers, and gain skills and strategies to navigate the workplace and improve their performance.
Team Building Retreats - launch an immersive, in-person, hybrid or virtual session that aims to improve team dynamics, collaboration, and communication through structured activities and shared experiences.

CULTURE CHANGE IMPLEMENTATION

Culture change can be complicated and messy. We help organizations create growth mindset cultures that inspire collaboration, innovation, adaptability, and integrity. Once your leadership is aligned on your organization’s most impactful areas to focus on, EA can support you in bringing that vision to life. We support organizations in communicating and engaging with their stakeholders on all elements of the culture transformation. We collaborate with you to develop tailored communications and change management approaches to support organizational alignment and adoption.

Change Management - implement strategies to support your workforce with understanding and contributing to the desired culture change in your organization.
Strategic Communications - execute communication strategies that effectively convey key messages, align stakeholders, and support organizational goals.
Engagements - launch new or existing initiatives that support shifting your Cultures of Growth mindset which could include process improvement, policy re-design, and piloting new approaches.
Advisory Services - gain expert guidance provided to organizations on Cultures of Growth, aimed at improving performance and achieving organizational goals.

SUSTAINING CULTURE CHANGE

Effective culture change must happen at all levels of an organization. We identify and deploy highly interactive tailored services, often including workshops and training sessions to deepen skills and behaviors. Our services are delivered in-person and virtually, in an engaging style that inspires, empowers, and equips the team to commit to action and in ways that help you move toward your desired goals. Remember, lasting culture change doesn’t just happen from the top down, it must also happen from the bottom up.

Keynote Speaking - bring on a Cultures of Growth expert to help inspire, educate, and empower teams to collective work towards creating your desired culture.
Workshops - launch interactive, skill-building sessions that focus on specific topics to enhance participants' knowledge, competencies, and capabilities supporting a culture of growth.
Leadership Development Programs - deploy structured learning initiatives designed to build and enhance the leadership skills of current and future leaders to drive organizational performance.
Coaching - offer personalized guidance and support to help individuals move towards a Growth mindset, better understand their triggers, and gain skills and strategies to navigate the workplace and improve their performance.
Communities of Practice - build or participate in a community within and across organizational boundaries who are interested, knowledgeable and passionate about improving the growth mindset or experiences with your organization or program.

Our Consulting Lifecycle

1. Discover

Discover insights and develop a deeper understanding of your current state. This could be your entire organization, groups and departments, a specific program or process, or as an individual.

2. Build

Design strategies to build towards your desired future state while aligning with leaders and other culture creators across your organization.

3. Implement

Deliver and implement the agreed-upon strategies, identify ways to continuously improve, and develop mechanisms to support sustainability.

Our Values

DRIVE OUR APPROACH

Equity-Centered

We are committed to applying an equity lens to all aspects of our work, addressing historical and ongoing inequalities across lines of difference. We strive to create Cultures of Growth where individuals from all backgrounds are valued, respected, and thrive.

Continuous Learning

As the first focused research organization (FRO) in the nation to apply social and behavioral science to the challenge of creating–and sustaining–equitable learning and working environments, we are able to harness empirical evidence and apply it to real world problems, then apply that data to contribute to scientific understanding.

Collaboration

We believe in the power of inclusive and cross-disciplinary teams. We recognize that sustainable, impactful change arises from diverse perspectives and expertise. We actively partner with other organizations and value and respect their local expertise. By building partnerships, we all amplify our impact.