Justice Informed is a social impact consulting firm that supports the evaluation, redesign, and learning experiences to transform our clients into industry leaders who blend social and economic impact within and outside the workplace.
Support Your DEI Initiatives
Justice Informed provides customized solutions for our clients
All Services Include
Custom-Fit Solutions
Justice Informed works with its clients to adapt its services, processes, and frameworks to the unique challenges and circumstances of each organization and team.
Interdisciplinary Learning and Guidance
Staff at Justice Informed hail from a variety of backgrounds allowing insights and learnings from fields as far ranging as organizational design, trauma-informed care, gender studies, antiracism, and public policy, to name a few.
Justice Informed Expert Support
A fully staffed project team will provide the necessary project management capacity and expertise to manage these services, allowing your staff's energy to be focused on their day-to-day responsibilities.
Frequently Asked Questions
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We offer a wide range of implementation and assessment services.
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DEI/social impact as a field of practice is still being defined and refined in the public eye causing varying expectations, standards, and conceptions of what success looks like
For those organizations that are invested in DEI, there may already be a foundation of DEI work that is either insufficient, unclear, or incorrect that stalls continued progress
Although people are interested in social impact and justice, the DEI pedagogy, initiatives and trainings undertaken are increasingly being viewed as ineffective, unclear, unspecific, and ultimately not connected to true organizational and societal change.
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Many organizations started DEI committees in 2020 without knowing how to lead them. By establishing a DEI charter you can build momentum and trust among your staff. DEI committees can be customized to help prompt your goals and needs.
DEI committees are democratic vehicles to implement your DEI strategy. A DEI committee can empower your staff and create a culture of inclusion at your organization. Many companies focus on diversity, but a cultural transformation is necessary for equity and inclusion. DEI should be embedded as a lens through which all your work is seen and a DEI Committee can facilitate this.
If DEI initiatives are not strategically owned by a committee, they will fall flat. 80% of employees state they want to work for inclusive companies and prioritize this in their job search. Organizations with DEI committees report higher belonging and engagement scores, resulting in lower levels of attrition or reported bias.
Sample Services
For DEI strategies to be effective, they must be comprehensive, org-wide, and speak to an organization’s staff and leadership and their ambitions and fears regarding DEI. For many organizations, existing DEI strategies often only focus on one area such as hiring at the expense of others. For these clients, Justice Informed offers DEI Strategy Review support to update an existing DEI strategy.
Through staff focus groups, interviews, and detailed policy review, Justice Informed can provide expert recommendations on an existing DEI strategy based on staff feedback as well as our own analysis of themes and data. Following this work, Justice Informed can provide its updates to incorporate new areas of focus, new challenges, or new initiatives to an existing DEI strategy.
By the close of this engagement, clients will leave with a refreshed DEI strategy that is more tailored to staff and leadership goals and the organization’s needs
Justice Informed will orient your members to the work of leading and managing DEI. Together we will construct a charter that outlines the key goals, responsibilities, and level of authority the committee will have.
If DEI initiatives are not strategically owned by a committee, they will fall flat. 80% of employees state they want to work for inclusive companies and prioritize this in their job search. Organizations with DEI committees report higher belonging and engagement scores, resulting in lower levels of attrition or reported bias.
+ Three facilitated meetings to create a DEI Committee Charter
+ Other support and project management of the committee as needed
With DEI being a new field, clients are often faced with little to no direction on how to implement new or visionary DEI initiatives or programs. To assist, Justice Informed can provide research support to any client looking for more data, case studies, or general insights on a particular issue, initiative, or program. Justice Informed has already supported research and developed white papers around issues like Historically Black College and University recruiting, collective action networks and groups, and the state of funding opportunities for DEI initiatives.
Research support which can include:
+ Online research
+ Field interviews
+ Landscape scans
+ Data analysis and synthesis
+ SME focus groups