Audit
The Fearless Futures Ecosystem Audit allows you to gain clarity about your organisation as a dynamic system so we can share with you how to leverage the system to create deep inclusive change.
Our unique and innovative methodology allows us to surface the deep structure of the system, push beyond the immediate or obvious problems to see the underlying patterns, and crucially, identify the ways we can engage the system to create inclusive change that is principled, purposeful and powerful.
To do this we need to understand
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How does the organisation operate as a complex, dynamic system?
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How and where does systemic inequity show up, play out in and shape this ecosystem?
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How and where can we leverage the ecosystem, to generate a deeply equitable and inclusive organisation?
What are we seeking to surface?
- What are the enabling dynamics and forces within your company cultures and structures?
- What are the inhibiting dynamics and forces within your company cultures and structures?
- What opportunities exist to progress and accelerate inclusion?
- Where within the ecosystem is there the biggest buy-in?
- Where within the ecosystem is there greatest resistance? Why?
Organisations function as ecosystems.
Simply put, as an ‘organised’ or connected groups of people, creating and navigating particular structures, cultures and processes which together, produce numerous outcomes.
All organisations exist and function within a broader system—society.
They are therefore informed by—and can either further or reduce—wider, intersecting, systems of inequity.
Organisational ecosystems are complex.
Within a dynamic organisational ecosystem, we know it can be difficult for leaders to know what dynamics are inhibiting equity and inclusion and the best strategies to overcome these.
The dynamic interplay between the components of the ecosystem serve to further or reduce inclusion. To understand the entire ecosystem we need to understand the relations and connections between these levels.
Within a dynamic organisational ecosystem, we know it can be difficult for leaders to know what dynamics are inhibiting equity and inclusion and the best strategies to overcome these.
Triangulation across the Ecosystem
We use triangulated research tools to audit and map the ecosystem:
- Focus groups
- Surveying
- 1:1 Consultations
- Policy document analysis
- Company products
- Historical company impact (company dependent)
What you get from the Audit
Findings Report
After our analysis, we create a findings report. This report presents the patterns and dynamics our auditing has surfaced within the ecosystem. We will share with you both the specific forces as well as the ‘deep’ structure – across people, policy and process.
Forces might be virtuous—aligned with deep inclusion and enhancing equitable outcomes within the system or vicious—furthering inequity and exclusion.
They might be stabilising—keeping things from getting worse, or stagnating—keeping things from getting better.
Organisation Ecosystem Map
We team the Findings Report with a sophisticated, interactive map of your organisational ecosystem.
Your Ecosystem Map provides you with a state of the art visualisation of what forces are driving or inhibiting equity, inclusion and belonging in your organisation, how and why.
The ecosystem map gives you rich insight into the “why” behind the recommendations in the Systems Change Strategy Report.
Access to your ecosystem map is private, secure and protected.
Systems Change Strategy Report
The Systems Change Strategy Report provides you with a clear road-map for how to leverage your ecosystem to create enduring change, at scale.
- How to enhance and accelerate virtuous and stabilising feedback loops to build on enabling dynamics of inclusion and equity existing in your organisation.
- What cultural and structural changes you can make and how, to disrupt vicious and stagnating feedback loops that may be perpetuating exclusion.
Using Fearless Futures’ unique frameworks and our expertise in designing equity based solutions for our Clients, the Systems Change Strategy Report focuses on practical solutions and detailed recommendations that you can implement immediately for your context-specific inclusion and equity strategy.
Give Your Team the Resources to be Fearless
We believe in directly addressing the conversations that make us uncomfortable to create a more inclusive environment for everyone in the workplace. Our services create comprehensive educational experiences that empower your team to collaborate with one another and engage in meaningful discussion. Reach out to us today to learn more.