Create System-Wide Change

Organizational change happens at three levels: change within the individual, change within the group or team, and, finally, change at the organizational or system level.
    
Many diversity programs bypass the individual and group levels and seek to make changes solely at the organizational level. This fails to address mindsets and support new leadership behavior, leading to individual and group resistance that makes the real organizational change next to impossible.

White Men as Full Diversity Partners’ consultants are known for producing lasting impact among individuals by helping them not only to internalize the perspectives of other cultures, but also to realize the existence and effects of their own built-in cultural bias.

With White Men as Full Diversity Partners, your organization will:

  • Uncover opportunities and hidden strengths
  • Set priorities to resolve immediate needs while building toward long-term goals
  • Build skills, transform mindsets, and create partnerships that empower new levels of innovation and productivity
  • Participate in the creative power of diversity
  • Address hidden obstacles that keep the organization from achieving its potential
  • Enable the capacity to create and sustain an inclusive culture

We help you build an organization where every individual feels valued and where diversity is revered as a corporate strength.

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As a white male, I have a tendency to focus on 'look how far we've come.' My experience at this lab now has me feeling empowered to focus on 'look how far we have to go' and that I can personally impact what that change looks like.

Executive

Kellogg Company

What's New
  • Save the Date: Women of Different Tribes Caucus

    We've set the date for the 2012 offering of the Women of Different Tribe's Caucus. At the Caucus, you will gain new awareness, build skills to forge meaningful cross-cultural partnership and create a Leader's Action Plan to help apply learning. Mark your calendars for September 24-27, 2012. More information will follow. Download a Caucus flyer.

  • Bill Proudman to present at DRI's Diversity for Success Seminar

    Advancing Diversity: The Critical Role of Non-Diverse, White Male Partners
    Bill Proudman, cofounder of White Men as Full Diversity Partnerswill discuss the importance of diversity, the reasons why non-diverse attorneys need to be onboard and engaged in diversity initiatives, and how these joint efforts not only promote diversity but also the bottom line. Learn more about this seminar sponsored by DRI: The Voice of the Defense Bar.

  • A Leader's Investment

    "It's never easy to give up the better part of a work week, but this event is well worth it. More than any other training or discussions I have previously participated in, I left this event with a deeper personal understanding of diversity and inclusion issues on both an intellectual and emotional level. More importantly, I left with an improved understanding of how I can be a better leader in a diverse environment. I recommend this for all senior leaders. If you choose to attend, bring an open mind and a willingness to fully participate."

    Ted D. Crandall, Senior Vice President & CFO for Rockwell Automation

  • Diversity Matters: You Are Kidding Right?

    This article was published in the March 2009 Linkage Leader eNewsletter - a free, monthly eNewsletter that offers industry leaders' viewpoints, best practices, and relevant information. "The response to the suggestion to create a white men's affinity group is often some laughter, a rolling of the eyes accompanied by a statement like, "What the heck do the white guys need a network for, when everyday at work is already a white men's group?..." Read full article