Recent studies have shown that strong financial performance for companies is directly impacted by high levels of gender, ethnic, and cultural diversity. Many organizations and institutions have invested in efforts to diversify their workforces to include more women, racialized people, and marginalized groups. Often, these initiatives are focused on hiring and are executed by Human Resources departments. However, these HR diversity initiatives rarely address equitable employment outcomes beyond hiring, including succession and conflict resolution.
Human Resources Diversity
Supporting human resources teams to ensure equitable outcomes for their staff from recruitment to succession
Human Resources Diversity
The Challenges
Achieve transformational results.
Traditional human resources management was not designed to address inequitable outcomes for marginalized groups. This, paired with a culture of meritocracy and neoliberalism which suggests that hard work and intelligence are what determines who succeed, makes it difficult to acknowledge and address the systemic oppression that is intertwined in organizations and the lack of employment equity at play. As a result, diversity fails to reach beyond entry level positions, executive tiers are homogenous in race and gender, pay inequities arise, employee conflict is frequent and satisfaction is low, and the turnover, especially for staff from equity-seeking groups, is high
Human Resources Diversity
Our Solutions
KOJO Institute supports human resources departments to ensure equitable outcomes for their staff in recruitment, succession, and the day-to-day experiences of the workplace. To direct our clients towards more equitable human resources diversity outcomes, we complete consultations with the staff to understand the key concerns and analyze disaggregated identity-based data to identify disparities in staffing. From these results, we facilitate professional development for human resources leaders and staff and assist in driving organizational culture change and the creation and implementation of policies, procedures, and mechanisms that are relevant and specific to the organization.
Through our work together, our clients’ HR teams become more conscious of how the normal ways of operation create inequitable outcomes and more capable of addressing these issues effectively. They set equity-based goals at the centre of their approach to diversity and have an actionable plan to achieve them. This leads all staff, including those from equity-seeking groups, to have greater trust and confidence in the organization and its HR department because they feel heard, served, and considered by its policies and practices. While more complaints may be raised initially as staff begin to feel more confident that their issues will be resolved, in the long term, there are fewer conflicts, organizational crises, human rights commission filings, and less staff unionization.
8 Levers To Organizational, Institutional and Systems Change
- Engaging the Board of Directors
- Impacting Staffing Strategies
- Examining the Accountability Framework
- Maximizing the Use of Data
- Implementing Fresh Training and Learning
- Amplifying Communications Strategies
- Widening Community and Stakeholder Relations
- Revisting Service or Business Models
What We Do Well
- Equity & Human Rights
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppression
- Anti-Black Racism
- Employment Equity
- Human Resources Diversity
- Organizational Culture Change
How We Prepare You
- Training
- Executive Coaching
- Community Consultations
- Content & Research Development
- Keynotes & Guest Lectures
- Conferences
- Multi-Session Programs
Building Transformation Skills
KOJO Institute leads executives, managers and organizations through an innovative approach that reconstructs their paradigms and systems connected to equity, diversity and inclusion. We amplify the vision for change through deep-dive explorations that identify the scope, segment competencies and quantify resources required to birth social innovation.
With a clear focus on client expectations, we aim to produce actionable frameworks and solutions that ultimately better the lives your people and organization. Contact us.
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What Our Clients Say
Joanne Adair
Development Manager, House of Friendship
Development Manager, House of Friendship
Game Changing and Empowering
Kike visited House of Friendship for a Leadership/Management training session last June. It was incredible and life-changing for many of us. Kike’s gift to the world is to be able to openly name and allow us to sit in the discomfort of this work, holding us accountable, but also not judging anyone. She created a…
Javeed Sukhera
Chair, London Police Services Board
Chair, London Police Services Board
Profound and Actionable
The London Police Services Board asked Ms. Ojo-Thompson from the KOJO Institute to start off a day-long strategy session devoted to anti-racism in policing. Her presentation hit on all the right notes. In addition to challenging the Board to question long standing assumptions that are built upon racist legacies, she guided Board members towards actionable… read more
Janine Manning
Granting Committee Chair, Laidlaw Foundation
Granting Committee Chair, Laidlaw Foundation
Conscious and Skillful
Laidlaw Foundation had the privilege and pleasure of having Kike Ojo-Thompson support our collective staff and board anti-oppression training. Our individual levels of awareness and competency on the issue was from ‘none’ to ‘well versed’. Regardless of where we were on the spectrum of knowing, she supported all of us, with patience and enthusiasm. Miigwetch… read more
Chris Robert
Co-President, BOLDforce for Salesforce Canada
Co-President, BOLDforce for Salesforce Canada
Business-Critical Training
Kike exceeded our expectations at Salesforce. She dynamically navigated audience demographics to provide extremely relevant Equity Training that stimulated immense conversation and insight. Her teachings should be at the centre of every organization’s strategy moving forward. I can’t wait to work with her again!
Graeme Young
President, Eva’s Initiatives for Homeless Youth
President, Eva’s Initiatives for Homeless Youth
Enlightening and Effective
We thought we already had a pretty good handle on equity, diversity, inclusion and Anti-Black Racism, but Kike’s presentation was enlightening. I have used her concepts several times since. Her style is energetic and engaging and she has a very positive manner. Our thirteen board members were engrossed by her work. Extremely effective.
Yasmin Razack, M.Ed.
Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Inclusion
Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Inclusion
Global Mind Innovator
Kike Ojo has the depth, knowledge and experience to engage participants of diverse backgrounds with highly complex subject matters that are relevant to all organizations. The sheer brilliance of her mind and ability to connect ideas is masterful, which allows everyone in the room to powerful moments of learning.