How does it work?
Listen to and learn from your diverse stakeholders
A Wave® brings to the table the wisdom of your many stakeholders - employees, customers, and stakeholders alike - to better understand your greatest challenges, to clearly define your greatest opportunities, and to crowdsource innovative ideas that can inform a better strategy - your unique value - and collective action.
Who’s made a Wave®?
Organizations and sectors that put equity at the heart of strategy
Since 2018, we’ve been partnering with higher education institutions and sector-specific groups and associations to create Wave® strategic plans that deliver not only strategic success, but social impact.
Our Latest Client
“Working with Tidal Equality was one of the best first decisions I made as a dean. I truly believe it was their distinct process and facilitative expertise that has helped shape a clear, coherent, and compelling plan for a bright and hopeful future.”
Deanna Dannels, Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, NCSU
Stories of Strategic and Equitable Change
Read the Case Snapshots below and imagine the success and impact your organization could achieve with a Wave®.
FAQ
What are the steps in a Wave® strategic planning process? +
We start by listening and learning from your stakeholders, with a combination of live focus groups and 1:1 sessions, and by distributing our unique Qualitative Insights Questionnaire. We analyze and synthesize what we learn, shaping results into challenge and opportunity areas, before we guide participants in the co-design of a vision, set of values, and strategic priorities. Throughout the process, we strive to equalize power dynamics, and we recruit a Strategic Planning Feedback Team - a diverse team as representative as possible of the organization's stakeholder groups.
I’m a member of a professional network or association. Do you only make Waves® in enterprise settings, or can you help us make a Wave®, too? +
Yes, we can! We’ve helped private-sector and public-sector organizations make Waves®, but we’ve also worked with industry groups, associations, and non-profit organizations. If you want to make a Wave®, regardless of your context, we are excited to find a way to support you. Our process can be particularly helpful if you're looking to solve a particularly tricky industry-wide problem.
I’ve participated in design-thinking sessions before, what’s different about a Wave®? +
A Wave® doesn’t begin and end during the actual session. A Wave® starts when we work with you to define an equality-focused problem you’re struggling with. Then we design a qualitative questionnaire that solicits very nuanced, anecdotal data from key populations within your organization or community. We then synthesize that data, shaping it into a unique Wave® session. At the Wave®, we support participants to clarify their common cause, and design highly-actionable tactics that ...
How long does a Wave® strategic planning process take, and how much does it cost? +
From beginning to end - all planning included - a Wave® can take as little as 5 months, but as partners, we know that your organization is working to a unique rhythm of events and schedules, so we will work with you to set and guide a project plan that suits your stakeholders, to ensure we get the greatest degree of participation and support. Because we work will organizations big and small, our pricing slides along a scale. Book a call to learn more.
Ready for a Wave® of change?
Wherever you live, work, learn, or play, Tidal Equality can partner with you to crowdsource new solutions to the equality, strategy, and culture challenges you face.
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