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OUR WORK

Equity in action.

Our strengths-based approach is built upon:
Listening, Assessing, Co-Designing, Implementing, Measuring, and Refining

Our strengths-based approach is built upon:
Listening, Assessing, Co-Designing, Implementing, Measuring, and Refining

MICROSOFT
Global Events, Production Studios
& Marketing Community

The opportunity.

  • Formalize and bolster the Global Events department’s Diversity Inclusion and Accessibility (DIA) efforts by expanding and refining its existing strategies.
  • Ignite executive leadership team consensus and leverage their revitalized intent and approaches to create 200+ employee buy-in across the department and company.
  • Re-structure and reinvigorate DIA efforts; connect the new DIA group to Microsoft's global efforts, values, and measured business goals.
  • Create visibility and sustainability for the DIA group and its strategies in the long-term.

Our solution.

  • Prioritized listening and documenting team input and building consensus as the foundation of department-wide initiative-building and mindset changes.
  • Developed assessments and conducted leadership coaching to shift management approaches about the need for DIA efforts and improved the executive leadership engagement process.
  • Co-designed a strategy for operationalizing data reporting and utilizing metrics and team feedback for authentic storytelling.
  • Led external and internal strategic partnership building to maintain the cohesiveness and growth of the DIA program.
  • Supported the development and evolution of a DIA-specific community engagement initiative
SUCCESS STORIES

Client Review

“Equity and Impact Solutions (EIS) understood the monumental task - our overarching goal to infuse equity-centered inclusive best practices into the fabric of corporate organizations. They were experienced and authentic, which allowed them to work through the heightened sensitivities and the sphere of current corporate processes and procedures, in order to do the work.

Having a trusted partner with whom you can step back has been huge! EIS kept us ‘community engaged’ and brought us invaluable best practices that have really helped challenge our strategy and approach. Their services such as storytelling with an equity-centered lens, strategic planning to determine how to best move forward with understanding, and how to merge all of this with best practices have been truly valuable.”

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Alexia Claybourne,
Director, Inclusion, Accessibility Marketing and Consumer Business,
Microsoft 

Louisiana Health Department
STD/HIV/ Hepatitis Program (SHHP)

The opportunity.

  • Facilitate a complex and long-term process, with a large but committed department, of re-energizing leadership and re-setting organizational mindset.
  • Initiate feedback from a 200+ person team to build upon internal culture changes and their connection to productivity.
  • Reframe long-term goals for community health services and outcomes by re-aligning mission, vision, and values.

Our solution.

  • Gathered and focused on internal feedback as a collaborative process to create long-term internal and external change.
  • Revised mission, vision, and values, as the foundation of building team morale and setting the stage for community engagement.
  • Co-designed a strategy for operationalizing data reporting and utilizing metrics and team feedback for authentic storytelling.
  • Gathered feedback from external partners to design the strategic plan and its implementation priorities.
  • Co-led and participated in a multi-city roadshow across the state to engage community partners serving people impacted by state systems and the health department’s efforts.
  • Created recommendations from roadshow feedback to recommend organizational priorities to advance momentum of organizational change and team morale.
SUCCESS STORIES

Client Review

“I was new to the Director position, we were in survival crisis mode with responding to COVID, and we experienced high staff turnover. Those challenges delayed the teamwide strategic planning work I had intended as a way to build alignment, relationships, and trust.

EIS brought a wealth of direct experience and had previously worked with health departments on HIV, STI, and hepatitis programs. Working with them to update the vision, mission, and values was the jump-off place for us to do some strategic planning work which we're continuing. We specifically highly- valued the focus on health equity and racial justice because that has been a core value of our program and we needed that perspective for our strategic planning.

The process took longer because we had this huge staff who wanted to be involved, and it created incredible alignment. There was so much feedback, which in some ways, created enormous consensus. So, it really has been a great partnership!”

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Sam Burgess,
Director, STD/HIV/ Hepatitis Program (SHHP)

Gilead
HIV Franchise & Marketing

The opportunity.

  • Reframe existing organizational and brand perceptions in the community and among patient groups to create awareness and access to lifesaving medication.
  • Build trust based on respectful relationships and real people’s experiences to inform long-term outreach efforts and initiatives.
  • Create linkages between biomedical interventions and people impacted by HIV and facing disparities

Our solution.

  • Curated and designed expert advisory boards as the foundation to prioritize and incorporate community insight into business strategies.
  • Cultivated community-centric activities, content, and initiatives to launch at key conferences for wider engagement.
  • Conceptualize, co-create, and manage extensive visibility campaigns that grow trust-based brand perceptions.

Collabs based
on trust.

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