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The key to success is YOU.
You are here because you know there is work to do to overcome bias and bring inclusion to your workplace or community. But you’re not sure how to do it in an authentic, impactful way. You’re willing to show up and do the work, and need some guidance.
We are here for you.
Calico’s workshops on diversity, equity, and inclusion strive to meet every person and team where they are in their understanding of bias. This work isn’t about shame or blame. It’s about empowering people to overcome bias, and it starts within each one of us. At Calico, we equip you and your team with knowledge and tools you need to feel confident and act.
It’s time to do better. Let’s start by working together.
Learn more about our Story and Core Values.
Our popular Offerings
Helping your team identify, understand, and address the basics of workplace belonging is in our roots.
All our programs are founded in evidence-based strategies for overcoming bias at the personal, organizational, and institutional level.
Interested in booking a multi-part program? Check out our special offer below. Have questions? Book a call today.
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Learn how your employees feel about your organization’s climate and culture; the types of experiences they are having with unconscious bias and discrimination; their views on your organization’s equity; and their reactions to organizational initiatives. With complete anonymity and secure data processing - you get their full, honest opinions.
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In-depth Survey + Qualitative Interviews
Company Climate Report
Research-Based Recommendations
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If you wonder “am I biased?” or “do I have unconscious bias?” and are concerned about how this could impact your leadership, this series will help you lead with compassion and trust. Power dynamics add extra layers of difficulty to already sensitive interactions. But what if you could leverage power dynamics for positive change to overcome bias and foster inclusion? Leaders learn to identify pitfalls of authority, how to repair relationships and build a top-down commitment to inclusion.
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Practice with real-life implicit bias experiences
Impact report with tailored recommendations
Custom workbooks
Dynamic group & individual activities
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DEI STRATEGIC PLANNING
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Effectively meeting long-term DEI goals requires thoughtful strategies to overcome intentional and unconscious bias while balancing organizational goals, measurable success, and team capacity. We’ll help you navigate the path to fully examine, improve, and build structures that support your mission.
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Surveys, focus groups, feedback forums
Expert-facilitated collaborative work sessions
A finalized Strategic Plan with metrics and an achievable timeline
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“Calico opened the door for us to talk about how we move forward as a community, how we talk to each other, how we relate. It set the tone for moving forward.”
— Calico Workshop Participant
More Programs
The following programs are centered on specific categories of work that can focus your impact.
Mending Relationships for a Collaborative Workplace
Nobody’s perfect, and we all make mistakes sometimes. When we hurt a colleague through bias, how do we repair the relationship to ensure an understanding of mutual trust and respect? These workshops help leaders and staff repair relationships and inspire trust - which enables a more inclusive workplace and helps leaders and staff protect and enhance the productivity and collaboration of their teams.
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Practice with real-life experiences
Report of findings & tailored recommendations
Custom workbooks
Dynamic group & individual activities
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TIMING: 1-part, 2-hour workshop
SIZE: 30+ staff
Empowering Employees and Building Trust
For general staff, overcoming unconscious bias and building trust within the context of power dynamics adds extra layers of difficulty to already sensitive interactions. These workshops help staff learn how to collaborate with each other and nurture relationships across managerial levels to help constructively improve the welcoming atmosphere of your organization.
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Change management best practices for all levels of staff
Strategic problem-solving tools and practice
Expert co-facilitation
Dynamic large and small workgroup sessions
Playbook for how the organization will anticipate and address resistance to change
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TIMING: 3-part, 1.5-hour workshops
SIZE: 30+ staff
Creating Buy-in for Successful Rollouts
Realigning aspects of your organization to better meet your mission and cultural goals can be difficult. Change comes with resistance and countering that resistance isn’t easy. We’ll guide you so you can meet your goals confidently. Change labs employ strategies to generate buy-in across all levels of your organization, create safer spaces for staff and leadership to collaborate, and help leaders anticipate and address resistance. Change labs will help leaders encourage teams to support each other in problem-solving, accountability, and investment in mission and culture goals.
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Practice with real-life experience scenarios
Expert co-facilitation
Report of findings
Post-program tailored recommendations
Custom workbooks
Dynamic group & individual activities
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TIMING: 3-part, 2-hour workshops
SIZE: 30+ staff
Moving from Minimum to Vision
An underrated strategy to overcome unconscious bias are policies. Traditional, unexamined policies can impede or undermine a positive organizational culture. Good policies can guide people’s behavior and support team members in making the right decisions and improving inclusion and equity. Our Policy Development Labs help teams develop equitable, inclusive policy and equip organizations to strategically create and tackle policy development goals. Inside the labs, you’ll have a dedicated opportunity to collaboratively craft and revise cultural policy with the help of expert guidance.
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Practice with real-life experiences
Expert co-facilitation
Custom workbooks
Working sessions for concrete deliverables
Dynamic group & individual activities
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TIMING: 2-part, 2-hour workshops
SIZE: 30 staff
Special Offer for Multi-Phase Engagements
Making a big commitment to a positive, inclusive culture is hard to do all at once, and it’s also hard to maintain momentum with a string of individual projects. If you’re ready to commit to making change in your organization with our support, we have a special offer for multi-phase engagements to help you assess need, prioritize initiatives, address training needs, and generate real organizational change.
Get 20% off engagement fees when you commit to transforming your organization with:
Organizational Climate Survey
Strategic Plan Development
Policy Development Lab Series
Two or More additional sessions of Unconscious Bias, Leadership, or Power Dynamics Labs.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Calico’s core values of being open, humble, curious, and fun - along with an emphasis on empiricism - have led us to use Agile project management framework based on transparency, inspection, and adaptation. In alignment with these values, every client we work with gets individualized attention and reviews each program leading up to the engagement so that you can get the results you want. We go above and beyond to support your team’s needs because we are passionate about this work, so your success matters to us.
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Yes! We’re always researching, reading, and talking to experts PLUS we use our pre-workshop assessments to make sure we’re keeping to relevant topics and the latest tools for our program participants
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Everyone has a role to play in growing a more inclusive community. Your experience is unique and we will make sure to understand your needs so that we can steward this process alongside you every step of the way.
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We offer sliding scale pricing based on organization size and type.
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We strongly recommend keeping attendance voluntary for any DEI training. Mandatory DEI or sexual violence and harassment training often backfires, resulting in ineffective training that increases hostility and distrust. For more on why, please review this Harvard Business Review article.
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We often survey different audiences belonging to varied demographics and psychographics. QuestionPro provided us unmatched features to tailor our surveys to suit different types of audiences, collecting all the insights we need.