About The DWC Group

Embracing inclusive processes; creating smarter organizations; building stronger communities

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

Our Core Competencies include:

  • Assessment and Evaluation
  • Strategic Planning and Organizational Development
  • Stakeholder Engagement and Facilitation
  • Conflict Resolution and Transformation
  • Managing Diversity, Bias Reduction, and Cultural Competence
  • Meeting Strategy, Efficiency, and Efficacy
  • Leadership Coaching and Training
  • Youth Education and Development
  • Strengthening Keynotes and Workshops

 

Mission

The mission of The DWC Group is to deploy innovative dialogue strategies to tap the 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 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 their stakeholders. 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 unlock the power of better collaboration to create greater success.

Key Principles

  • Organizations and communities 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 or community if they their perspective has been well considered by decision-makers.
  • A primary obligation for consultants and coaches is to employ methods that maximize the opportunity for all stakeholders to express their views.
  • The legacy of inter-group bias in behavior and subtle or overt attitudes can be a severe drag on contemporary stakeholder inclusion and overall 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 issues can be the root causes of an organization’s or community’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/community change strategy deeply consider the perspectives, development needs, growth edges, and aspirations of leadership.
  • Any effort to improve an organization/community 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, Philosophy & Key Principles
Meet The DWC Group Team
Previous Clients