Navigating Change: Practical Guides for Organizations
Organizations across sectors face unprecedented pressure to rethink their approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion—even as they work to attract talent, serve diverse communities, and maintain organizational integrity. The path forward requires neither abandonment of core values nor rigid adherence to terminology that has lost public support. It requires co-creating what's next with the people who matter most to your organization.
These guides offer a different approach grounded in stakeholder engagement, informed by comprehensive national research, and designed to help organizations protect what matters while building broader understanding and support.
Stakeholder Engagement Guide for Corporations
Designed for: Companies navigating external pressure, legal complexity, and the need to remain competitive while maintaining authentic commitments to their values.
Corporations face a unique set of challenges: balancing legal frameworks across multiple jurisdictions, meeting the expectations of diverse employee bases, and protecting business fundamentals from political volatility. This guide provides a roadmap for engaging your key stakeholders—employees, customers, investors, and community partners—to understand what diversity, equity, and inclusion mean to them, and to build sustainable approaches that create genuine belonging rather than division.
What You'll Find:
Research insights that inform strategic decision-making
Framework for identifying and engaging your stakeholder ecosystem
Practical tools including an unbranded video to facilitate stakeholder conversations
Sample questions for meaningful engagement
Process for synthesizing learnings and translating them into action
Stakeholder Engagement Guide for NGOs
Designed for: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working to advance their mission while navigating external pressure and maintaining community trust.
NGOs operate at the intersection of mission and community—accountable to donors, boards, staff, and the people they serve. This guide recognizes that protecting and advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within nonprofit contexts requires alignment between organizational values and community expectations. By centering stakeholder voices, NGOs can build approaches that strengthen rather than threaten organizational stability, and that deepen rather than erode community trust.
What You'll Find:
Research insights that ground your stakeholder engagement strategy
Guide to mapping your stakeholder landscape
Methods for facilitating authentic conversations with diverse stakeholders
Sample questions tailored to nonprofit contexts
Frameworks for aligning stakeholder input with mission advancement
Both guides are designed to help organizations move beyond reactive responses and toward proactive, values-aligned strategies that work in today's complex environment. They provide insulation from political attacks, protect organizational integrity, and generate ideas rooted in what your stakeholders actually care about.