Equity-Centered Strategic Planning: Shifting Organization Culture at the Core

Course Description
Does strategic planning feel burdensome and tiring? Ever wonder why it is so hard to move an organization’s commitment to equity to action? Does your organization’s strategic planning put people in the center of the process? This workshop will help you unpack these questions and provide a framework to incorporate equity into each stage of strategic planning and doing.

 

Learning Objectives:
 

  • Participants will understand what it means to embed equity in all stages of strategic planning and why this is so important.
  • Participants will reflect on why the traditional processes of strategic planning are flawed and how to move new ideas to action.
  • Participants will walk away with tangible tools and frameworks to begin to center equity in their strategic planning and strategic doing processes.

Presnted By:

Rebecca Toll, MNM

Rebecca has demonstrated success applying a diverse set of practices that include collaborative governance, systems change, collective impact, authentic community engagement, building community leadership capacity, as well as understanding and deploying social innovation practices. Rebecca utilizes human-centered design thinking, emergent strategy, root cause analysis, and deliberative dialogue techniques in her work. These practices facilitate effective decision-making and trust building while increasing awareness and reducing barriers that ensure access to build will and ignite action. Specific projects include the co-creation of the Anti-Racist Change Lab (ARCL) developed in partnership with Colorado State University's School of Social Work. The ARCL a participatory experience for individuals to dismantle bias, increase awareness, and move toward collective action as it relates to racialized oppression within their communities. These practices are also applied to her work with numerous schools and districts across Colorado in an effort to cultivate transformational change for school climate and student voice.

Erin Zimmermann, MS

As the Executive Manager for the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2), Erin brings industry best practice tools specific to community engagement that center equity and inclusion in order to advance policy, sustain advocacy efforts, and deepen engagement. In this role, she works alongside practitioners across the country who are redefining what authentic public participation in decision-making looks like. Additionally, she has facilitated many large-scale strategic planning processes that not only delivered quality final products, but usable tools for implementation and progress monitoring. She prioritizes balancing multiple stakeholder voices and commits to continuous feedback processes, as well as flexibility and consistency, so that space is created for continuous learning.

 

 

Pricing

  • Free for members of Colorado Nonprofit Association (must be logged in for discount on Regular price)
  • $50.00 for non-members