Dudley Hamilton Associates | Our Core Principles

INTERVENTIONS, CONSULTATION AND COACHING

Organizations, coalitions, conferences, events and their leaders all face the challenge of creating inclusive environments where differences thrive and where people work together productively, efficiently, with innovation [innovatively] and [with] minimized conflict. However, multicultural environments sometimes lead to cross-cultural conflict between individuals, in teams and organizations. DHA facilitates processes including group sessions or retreats; on-site consultation at events; individual coaching for managers, senior leadership or staff; and strategic thinking that assists in finding “win/win” solutions that break through conflict and build lasting cultures of communication and respect.

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STRATEGIES AND SYSTEMS

DHA has successfully designed and implemented organizational change strategies that build inclusion, trust, leadership, communication and productivity in both large corporations and community-based organizations. The development of comprehensive strategies that view diversity practices as connected to business outcomes has helped our clients take the next “leap” toward maximizing effectiveness. Strategies we help clients develop include:

Staff, Board and Leadership Development
Diversity Task Forces, Councils and Committees
Programs and Services Design and Development
Communications Systems That Build Inclusion

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TRAINING

DHA offers customized diversity training packages designed to engage participants in non-threatening, personally challenging learning that promotes individual accountability and growth, teamwork and organizational effectiveness. The firm’s training strategy combines reflective exercises, skills enhancement and information sharing.
Our trainings are highly interactive and focus on the transfer of information and tools that participants can easily and quickly apply to real life situations. We tailor our presentation style to reach a wide range of audiences and levels of experience. We offer workshops, training series and multi-day institutes on a range of diversity related topics that include:

Awareness, Understanding and Acceptance
Unlearning Bias
Managing Diversity
Building Multicultural Organizations
Communicating Cultural Perspectives
Train-the-Trainer

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Our Unique Approach

Our Team

Our Core Principles

Three core principles have guided DHA's work since its inception: Quality, Partnership and Trust.

Quality:

We only take on projects for which we are uniquely positioned to add value; we do our homework to make sure we understand your needs and the outcomes you want to achieve.
We work with you to make sure the conditions for success are in place and that achieved outcomes meet current and anticipated needs.

Partnership:

We partner with our clients to ensure that our work is informed by their perspective and that our knowledge and expertise serve to augment and deepen theirs.
We work in alignment with our clients to ensure customization and to draw on and build the internal capacity within the organization to sustain success for the future.

Trust:

We get to know and connect with our clients.
We bring competence and experience to the table .
What we do and how we do it is completely transparent - no surprises.