DEIB Assessment & Consultation Services

About

In an effort to be responsive to broader campus needs for capacity building around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion goals at Berkeley, People and Culture has contracted professional expert Bryant Smith, to work with a range of departments/units at Berkeley to support their goals related to DEIB.

Services

1. Coaching and Consultation (1-on-1 or for a small group)

(a) Ideal for individuals or groups who have DEIB responsibilities within their portfolio. (i.e. Offer insight, recommendations, and resources to inform planning, prioritization, and practices)

(b) Ideal for individuals or groups seeking feedback and insight around previous and/or current DEIB efforts. (i.e. Reviewing planning documents, surveys, climate reports, department websites & communications, etc.)

2.  Intercultural Development Inventory (3 session process)

(a) The Intercultural Development Inventory® (IDI®) is the premier, cross-cultural assessment of intercultural competence that is used by thousands of individuals and organizations to build intercultural competence to achieve international and domestic diversity and inclusion goals and outcomes.

3. Training  or Workshop (At least 2 hours needed)

(a) There are a variety of facilitated workshops, training, and activities partners can engage in depending on needs. Below are examples of topics:

    • Managing Across The Gaps, Understanding Today’s Workforce - Employers, educators, and service providers are faced with a new dilemma. We are now living in a time whereby in order to provide services to clients you may now have to work with four people across possibly four or five generations.
    • The Franchised Employee Symposium - This experience is designed to shift the company management paradigm in how we manage, evaluate, sustain and grow an agency or organization utilizing a strategic franchise relationship model.
    • Shades, Glasses & Contacts: Beyond 20/20 Vision - This is a multimedia experience whereby attendees will examine race through several different lenses with the goal of changing how we see, engage, understand, promote and respond to being racialized.

Criteria for Participation 

  • Commitment to incorporating feedback and counsel provided by program experts.

  • Willingness to use available intellectual, human, and fiscal resources available to actualize DEIB efforts.

Process for Participation

  • Complete an inquiry form. If you have questions and need assistance with completing the form, contact Katrina Pantig Naval (kpantig@berkeley.edu / 510-457-8826).
  • Interested participants will receive an email from the Office of DEIB, with either: (1) Clarifying questions (2) an invitation to participate OR (3) recommendations for alternative resources and services that could be more effective at addressing the needs mentioned in the inquiry form.
  • New participants who have been invited to engage will schedule an initial consultation with Bryant Smith for the month of December.

Schedule Overview 

  • Accepting Inquiry forms on a rolling basis
  • December - Initial consultation meetings
  • 1/23 -7/23 -  Confirm scope of work for all clients and provide services

Reflections from last year's participants

  • "We sought out consultation services because we had no idea where to begin with our goal of improving the experience of BIPOC community members. Bryant's guidance gave us a road map that made us more confident about taking action to achieve this goal. The concrete steps we took under Bryant's advice allowed us to create meaningful change."
  • "Bryant Smith was excellent. He was so helpful to our organization. He's helped with our internal governance, public communications regarding DEIB, and in general improving all our systems and practices. He is so excellent, and I am recommending him to anyone on campus that inquires."