When organizations begin diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives without undergoing a cultural reimagination process, they often erect cultures that remain rooted in the status quo.
What our culture coaching clients receive
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Intentional community (re)building
Reciprocal, respectful relationships grounded in empathy and vulnerability are necessary to maintain an organizational culture of equity. If intra-team trust has been compromised, your team is experiencing DEI overwhelm, or you are working with a new team, their skills of collaborative and creative solution-generation will need attention. Culture Kinesis has extensive experience coaching teams away from dysfunction and toward cohesion.
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A cultural bottom line
Just as a traditional bottom line defines revenue success for an organization, a cultural bottom line articulates an organization’s expectation for its cultural progress. Culture Kinesis coaches your team to establish a cultural bottom line - a concise articulation of your team’s current culture and your cultural development baseline. We then leverage it to provide specific directionality for your cultural reimagination process.
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Targeted professional development
Achieving an equitable cultural foundation is a multi-layered process. Culture Kinesis supports your organization to identify and address the specific skill gaps that compromise your team’s ability to build a foundation of equity. We design a customized professional development suite that is tailored to fit the particular needs of your team.
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Cultural analysis and assessment
To construct a more equitable cultural foundation, organizations must be clear about the impact of their current culture. Culture Kinesis supports your team to interrogate internal organizational culture and the external cultures that influence it, and guides deep inquiry about: where power sits, what (un)spoken rules of engagement exist, how success is defined and by whom, etc. We offer tried-and-true frameworks that guide your team from foundational questions to key revelations.
Questions you’ve asked that we love
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Is it better if my organization has or has not begun a DEI initiative?
Culture Kinesis is equipped to meet your organization exactly where you are in your journey to establish a more equitable culture, whether this is your first step or your fifteenth. We customize an approach to meet your organization’s specific needs - no two client paths are ever the same.
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Is Culture Kinesis able to work with more than one team at a time within my organization?
Yes - and it’s one of our favorite ways to do this work. Reimagining culture on multiple fronts and bringing folks together to compare notes is one of the most impactful ways to infuse genuine collaboration into the process.
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My organization has experienced significant staff turnover. Should we wait until that slows to reach out to Culture Kinesis?
No need! Proactivity is invaluable to the work of building sustainable, inclusive cultures. The earlier we can collaborate to examine and address your culture challenges, the more impactful the turnaround process will be.
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Can we partner with Culture Kinesis if we do not have an internal employee or team dedicated to culture work?
Absolutely. During the ‘cultural analysis and assessment’ portion of our collaboration with your organization, we will identify opportunities to establish an internal body focused on culture. Investment in constructing a culture of equity also necessitates building the infrastructure to supports its sustainability.
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Can Culture Kinesis work with a specific team within my organization?
Yes! Culture Kinesis often begins the cultural reimagination process with your DEI committee, your leadership team, your employee resource group lead, your nonprofit Board, etc.
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Can Culture Kinesis provide multiple types of support to an organization simultaneously?
Yes, and we usually do. Early on, our co-creative process reveals multiple opportunities for cultural reimagination. Most of our clients benefit from a combination of our 1:1 coaching, group coaching, and conflict mediation offerings.