Recent Cultural Intelligence in Equitable Futures
s&h Culture Bites
You’ve committed to running a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization and your DE&I policy is in place, but what's the next step? It’s time to take action. Our series of equity accelerators are designed to expand equity from the core of your organization to every facet of your business. We help you build out smart policies and reach new audiences with thoughtful messaging, so everything from your people to your products and services will resonate across culture.
At sparks & honey we have recognized equity as a leading determinant for well-being. It’s the responsibility of organizations of all kinds to claim equity as a strategic ideal. When equity is placed at the center of an organization’s strategy, diversity and inclusion come so much more quickly and its effects reverberate from people to organizations and society.
Davianne Harris, Managing Partner & Chief Client Officer
Organizational transformation must be grounded in diversity, equity and inclusion. Historically, DE&I was considered to be an internal nice-to-have and often existed in a silo of its own, far from an organization’s core business practices. But now, DE&I is a tangible and measured imperative: it’s an integral part of an organization’s people, products, practices and partnerships. We are here to help you create an authentically fair world with systematic inclusivity. We want to replace unconscious bias with understanding and opportunity that extends beyond human resources to socioeconomic status, gender, social identity, age and race.
The lessons from the last few years have illustrated our endless capacity for resilience, rebuilding and empathy. But they have also shown the vast disparity in opportunity, justice and economics that still prevail in the U.S. and globally. In this report, we explore various principles gleaned from living through the pandemic and establish equity, or the quality of being fair, as a leading determinant for wellbeing. It’s the responsibility of organizations of all kinds to claim equity as a strategic, grounding ideal. This report covers the five cultural shifts with which every company now needs to reckon.
These five shifts will affect how everyone works, whether businesses change or not. We outline key principles to get ahead of these cultural shifts and build the Post-Pandemic Organization. The shifts, starting with Accountable Action and ending in a Resilient Future, define the human-centric organization of tomorrow, specifically with an eye on diversity. Our future is asking us to share wealth, resources and know-how to create more equity in a world where people, organizations and the environments we inhabit can thrive. When that happens, there’s an exponential effect that reverberates across people, organizations and society.