YW Boston works with you to customize a DEI Discovery process
that illuminates your diversity, equity, and inclusion strengths, challenges, and opportunities for impact. Utilizing surveys, interviews, focus groups, and document review, YW Boston delivers a summary of your organization’s current DEI state along with a set of recommendations that can be used to design a DEI strategy and action plan.

What you get:
Recommendations to help your organization advance its DEI journey.

The YW Boston DEI Pulse Survey is a valuable tool for assessing and enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within your organization. The survey is designed to take under 15 minutes to complete and will lead to a summary report and recommendations that organizations can use as they continue on their DEI journeys.

With YW Boston’s DEI Pulse Survey you’ll gain a clear snapshot of your organization’s culture by focusing on two key areas:

1. Perceptions of DEI:
Understand how employees view DEI

2. Experiences of Belonging:

Assess how valued and included your team members feel

What you get:
Valuable insights on your current DEI state and actionable recommendations.

Whether you are starting from scratch or have established DEI initiatives, YW Boston will tailor an action plan designed to help your organization become more equitable and inclusive.

YW Boston offers various pathways towards developing an Action Plan. One approach utilizes a robust discovery process that includes interviews and focus groups with constituents across your organization. Another approach centers on our unique Dialogues Series, in which a cohort of individuals from your organization engages in facilitated discussions and activities deepen their understanding of social identity and systemic inequities, and surface your organization’s strengths, opportunities for growth, and DEI aspirations. Whichever path you choose, YW Boston will synthesize input from a diverse range of voices and work with you to develop a robust DEI action plan.

Here’s what we’ll  do:

• Define DEI goals, outcomes, and performance measures
• Outline action steps
• Identify accountable parties
• Pinpoint potential roadblocks

What you get:
A roadmap for you to move your organization toward clearly defined equity and inclusion goals

Ready to put your Action Plan in place? Whether you created it with YW Boston or another consultant, YW Boston is here to help you stay on track and build your internal capacity to achieve your DEI goals and sustain these efforts long term.

Our collaborative approach ensures that your organization not only advances your DEI priorities, but also embeds them into your organizational fabric for lasting change.

Here’s what we’ll  do:

• Meet with your organization monthly to celebrate progress
• Identify emerging obstacles and adapt your plan as needed.
• Host Equity Labs, targeted sessions designed to address specific challenges and goal areas related to your action plan.

What you get: 

Ongoing support to implement lasting change

During YW Boston’s DEI Workshops, expert facilitators guide participants through a multi-step process of expanding their knowledge base, engaging in personal and collective reflection, analyzing the current state of their organization, and beginning to apply what they’ve learned to build a more inclusive culture.

Here’s what we’ll do:

• Meet with your organization ahead of the workshop to tailor it to your context.
• Provide customized pre-work that allows participants to familiarize themselves with content, language, and frameworks to allow for an efficient and interactive session

Workshop Offerings:

• Understanding Social Identity
• Understanding Racial Equity
• At the Intersection of Identities
• Addressing Implicit Bias
• Addressing Implicit Bias for Managers and Recruiters
• Responding to Microaggressions
• Leading for Equity
• Organizational Change for Equity
• The Role of Governing Boards in Advancing DEI