Welcome To The DWC Group

SERVICES

Collaborative Decision-Making

Diversity, Cultural Competence, and Anti-Bias

Historic and Cultural Preservation

Leadership Development

Collaborative Decision-Making – helping organizations or communities make better strategic choices by clarifying a more inclusive understanding of current challenges and potential solutions. For a sample of clients that to which The DWC Group has provided services for collaborative decision-making, click here.

Diversity, Cultural Competence, and Anti-Bias – improving initiatives or organizations that focus that are attempting to insure that institutions and communities are operating in a way that is free of institutional bias, supports various identities, fosters positive relationships, and produces fairness and equity.

Experience with Campus Diversity Initiatives
Video Clip Highlighting Our Philosophy Toward Campus Initiatives
10 Tips for a Successful Campus Diversity Initiative Tip Sheet
Upcoming Book Tour

For a sample of clients that The DWC Group has provided services in this area, click here.

Historic and Cultural Preservation – providing assistance in efforts to insure that efforts to preserve history recognize the full complexity of the past, as well as are designed so that diverse communities feel as though they have a stake in creating a collective future. For a sample of clients that The DWC Group has provided services in this area, click here.

Leadership Development – helping organizations that are consciously developing youth or adult leaders so that they maximize their own individual potential as well as improve their capacity to function as agents of positive institutional and social change For a sample of clients that The DWC Group has provided services in this area, click here.

In delivering services in these four areas, DWC has the unique capacity to provide assistance in all three of the major areas of project: strategic planning, implementation, and evaluation. In some cases, clients rely on DWC to provide direction and oversight to make sure all three of these areas are properly alighted. In other cases, clients have already retained assistance in one of these other efforts, but still rely on DWC for leadership on one of these areas as well as ensuring that there is alignment between planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Experience with Campus Diversity Initiatives – The DWC Group has played a major role in a number of campus diversity initiatives all across the country. We have worked in initiatives focused on students, staff, and faculty, and have provided services ranging from strategic planning and assessment, to speaking and facilitating large-scale events, through evaluation and communications. In every case, our services are provided in a many that is highly attuned to responding to the needs the client and are also intended to to transition the client to greater internal capacity and less reliance on us.

Because our consultants have a broad array of skills, our clients have tapped into our skill set in many different ways. To efficiently convey our set of experiences, we provide a table that communicates a sample of our clients, as well as some major functions of diversity initiatives that we have taken part in. The table is based on putting basic functions of diversity initiatives into 3 primary categories, each of which has a few specific tasks. The functions and tasks are:

Assessment and Strategic Planning
Design and execute campus/organizational assessment
Provide strategic planning and coaching to leadership teams, diversity councils, etc.

Implementation
Design and delivery base-line cultural competence training, leadership retreats, or dialogue curriculum
Design and delivery training of trainers, and provide subsequent coaching
Deliver keynote speeches and workshops

Evaluation and Dissemination
Provide guidance on communications plan and deliverables
Design and execute evaluation plan for diversity initiative

This table of sample clients highlights illustrates the breadth and depth of The DWC Group.

	Strategic planning and coaching to leadership teams	Design and execute org./campus assessment	Cultural competence training, leadership retreats, dialogue curriculum	Train trainers, and provide subsequent coaching	Deliver featured speeches and large-scale workshops	Advise & execute comm. plan	Design & execute evaluation plan
American University	X			X
Cal State, Dominguez Hills	X	X
East Carolina University		X	X			X
Princeton University				X
Trinity College	X			X	X		X
University of Chicago					X
University of Connecticut		X	X	X		X
University of Minnesota			X
New York Medical College		X				X
Valdosta State College	X	X	X	X		X	X
Valencia State College	X	X	X	X		X	X
	Strategic planning and coaching to leadership teams	Design and execute org./campus assessment	Cultural competence training, leadership retreats, dialogue curriculum	Train trainers, and provide subsequent coaching	Deliver featured speeches and large-scale workshops	Advise & execute comm. plan	Design & execute evaluation plan

10 Tips for a Successful Campus Diversity Initiative Tip Sheet
The DWC Group has worked on many campus diversity initiatives, and has conducted a number of multi-day trainings for diversity professionals from geographically disparate campuses. These experience have helped us clarify some important guidelines that are important to keep in mind to make such initiatives work most effectively. Click here for a copy of these tips. And feel free to reproduce them and send them to others, (as long as you give us credit)!

Video Clip Highlighting Our Philosophy Toward Campus Initiatives
In late 2005, a diversity scholar creating a film on campus diversity challenges interviewed a member of the DWC Group about the group’s philosophy about campus diversity initiatives. If you want to see and hear edited portions of this interview, click here.