Our services
At Co-Creating Inclusion (CCI), we partner with organizations to foster meaningful and lasting cultural shifts, ensuring everyone has what they need to do their best and most fulfilling work. Whether you’re addressing pressing challenges or laying the groundwork for a transformative journey, or both, our services are designed to meet you where you are.
Exploratory groundwork for DEI transformation
Every engagement begins with an exploratory groundwork phase to build clarity, alignment, and a strong foundation for transformational work—an essential first step to working with us, regardless of previous DEI efforts. This approach ensures that existing initiatives are effectively integrated, gaps are identified, and new opportunities are explored.
Why Groundwork Matters
Experience has shown us that even well-intentioned DEI initiatives can miss critical systemic issues without periodic recalibration. By “slowing down to speed up,” we:
Surface opportunities and tensions early.
Build trust and buy-in across your organization.
Ensure long-term success through thoughtful, strategic planning.
Goals and Benefits
The exploratory groundwork phase is not just about addressing immediate needs—it’s about setting the stage for impactful, sustainable change. Key goals and benefits include:
Mutual fit: Establishing a strong, collaborative relationship where you understand our approach and we gain a deeper insight into your organization’s culture, challenges, and needs.
Responsive scope design: Gathering the input, feedback, and data necessary to co-create a meaningful and effective longer-term engagement tailored to your unique circumstances.
Immediate relief: support for leaders and teams navigating harm, confronting difficult truths, and feeling a sense of urgency and overwhelm about making change.
Alignment across stakeholders: foster collaboration, trust and buy-in for cultural change work with CCI.
Actionable next steps: Defining clear strategies and solutions that ensure progress, whether or not you continue working with CCI.
Our two exploratory tracks lead to potential longer term engagement
Exploratory track #1:
Leadership Relief & Alignment
This track provides immediate support to leaders navigating cultural challenges, offering space to reflect, strategize, and lead by example.
What’s Included:
(5) 1-hour 1:1 coaching sessions - for the CEO, business, DEI, or HR leader who would be the key stakeholder for our work
(1) 1-hour strategy session with key decision maker(s) to align on insights and design the scope of a longer-term engagement.
Fee: $10,000
Goal: Provide immediate relief and equip leaders to manage challenges while defining the scope for next steps and/or a longer-term engagement. It also sets the tone of leading by example for the rest of the organization.
Exploratory track #2:
Stakeholder Engagement
This track brings together key groups to build trust, surface challenges, and foster alignment.
What’s Included:
(2) 2-hour stakeholder sessions to explore challenges, successes, and goals - for two stakeholder groups responsible for leading change and providing feedback and input into this work, usually the leadership team and a working group with employees from all levels
(1) 1-hour strategy session with key decision maker(s) to align on insights and design the scope of a longer-term engagement.
Fee: $10,000
Goal: Create alignment, uncover opportunities, and gather more information in order to define the scope for next steps and/or a longer-term engagement.
Building Toward a Longer-Term Engagement
After completing one or both introductory tracks, we can collaboratively design a highly customized longer-term engagement. This may include:
Phase I Discovery: Deep dive into organizational culture and dynamics.
Phase II Workshop Facilitation: Skill-building and strategic discussions.
Phase III Strategic Planning: Designing actionable and sustainable solutions.
Phase IV Implementation: Supporting the execution of strategic initiatives.
