Strategic Institutional DEI Management (SIDEIM)

SIDEIM is the term we coined to elevate DEI work to the level of enterprise strategy and offer a wider lens that centers on three distinct fields of theory and practice: Business Management, Social Science, and Law.

SIDEIM is concerned with a rigorous analysis of systems, policies, and practices that impact people and interventions. A SIDEIM orientation improves an institution’s ability to innovate around people processes to drive greater success by thinking outside the constraints of current functions to create lasting equitable culture.

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Actionable Spaces for
Auditing and Advancing DEI

SIDEIM offers principles and standards to evaluate an organization's commitment to excellence and equity demonstrated through its policy and practices that impact people.

Organizational innovation around culture and climate (the roof) should be guided by research and data (the arrow) and be centered on institutional policies and practices (the pillars) that structure the key interactions amongst people and grounded in a foundation of compliance & people relations.

The four pillars are:

- Attracting & Recruiting

- Onboarding & Alignment

- Learning & Development

- Community Outreach

Building an Organization Profile

We begin our engagement by conducting an initial diagnostic of your organization’s culture and climate and level of DEI. 

Before we begin openly engaging with your community, we ground ourselves in understanding your organization’s programs, policies, and practices and industry’s best practices. This allows us to hypothesize about organizational strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities.

Pillar Assessment

Using our hypotheses developed in phase 1 as a bedrock, we next conduct a listening tour (a combination of individual interviews and focus groups), which gives us the opportunity to connect with people directly and understand how norms, processes, and policies are lived out. After completion of our listening tour, we formally assess your core people, policy and practice areas using our SIDEIM Scorecard.

Insights & Recommendations

Our final report and presentation include a synthesis of all the research conducted, insights from the listening tour, our analysis and SIDEIM scorecard, and prioritized recommendations along with a change management process to support adoption of the recommendations.

Our prioritized recommendations are aligned to your key people processes and policies and can be structured through a variety of offerings.