ABOUT THE DWC Group

Embracing inclusive processes; creating smarter organizations; building stronger communities

Mission
Philosophy
Key Principles
Meet the DWC Team
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The team at the DWC Group is composed of professionals with degrees from top universities with extensive experience helping organizations and communities increase their effectiveness, efficiency, and inclusiveness.

Our Core Competencies include:

• Strategic Planning and Organizational Development
• Managing Diversity, Bias Reduction, and Cultural Competence
• Assessment and Evaluation
• Leadership Coaching and Training
• Conflict Resolution and Transformation
• Youth Education and Development
• Internet Strategy and Website Development
• Proposal Development and Writing
• Contracts and Grant Management
  
  

Mission

The mission of The DWC Group is to deploy innovative strategies to embrace the distributed of wisdom within organizations and communities. As these strategies are executed, it is important that individuals and organizations become more reflective and effective, that relationships between people and populations within communities become stronger and more equitable, and that both organizations and communities are left with more capacity than when the consulting relationship began.

Philosophy
The philosophy behind The DWC Group is that most human systems operate in a way that do not maximize either organizational productivity or satisfaction by those involved in them. We believe that almost all organizations and communities could improve their functioning if they employ efficient and inclusive processes that tap into the distributed wisdom of those involved in them. A foundational approach of The DWC Group is to recognize the potential collective wisdom within points of view that at first may seem disparate. As it recognizes the truth of apparently different points of view, The DWC Group creates opportunities for people who see an issue very differently to find not just their simple common ground, but also to recognize the critical questions that will help people see a larger truth that lies beyond apparently conflicted visions.


Key Principles

• Organizations make better decisions when they can employ efficient processes for getting a large number of perspectives to weigh in on issues.
  
• People are more enthusiastic contributors to an organization if they their perspective has been well considered by decision-makers.
  
• The legacy of inter-group bias in behavior and subtle or overt attitudes can be a severe drag on organizational effectiveness. Nevertheless, there is often significant resistance to the necessary process of examining these potential biases.
  
• Although these inter-group biases are important, it is also important to recognize when other organizational issues can be the root causes of an organization’s challenges.
  
• If properly understood, leveraging the cultural interplay within an organization and/or between an organization and its clients can significantly add to an organization’s effectiveness.
  
• Historic Difficulties between societal groups can, by deploying sufficient skill, be turned into opportunities for community building.
  
• Despite the importance of institutional process that foster inclusive decision-making, it is critical that any organizational change strategy deeply consider the perspectives, development needs, growth edges, and aspirations of leadership.
  
• Any effort to improve an organization should be designed to include a component of reflection/evaluation, and that this evaluation process should be constructed in alignment with other aspects of the intervention.

Mission
Key Principles
Meet the DWC Team
Colleagues