Organizational Change

Communication, Conflict, Diversity & Inclusion, Organizational Change

Intent vs. Impact: Narrowing the Gap Part 3: The Narrowing

June 24, 2026

Intent vs. impact: We’ve all been caught saying or doing something that produces an effect so very different – in a not so good or even very bad way – from the one we intended. This happens with friends, family…

Communication, Conflict, Diversity & Inclusion, Organizational Change

Intent vs. Impact: Narrowing the Gap Part 2: The Gap

June 19, 2026

Intent versus impact: We’ve all been caught saying or doing something that produces an effect so very different – in a not so good or even very bad way – from the one we intended. This happens with friends, family…

Communication, Conflict, Diversity & Inclusion, Organizational Change

Intent vs. Impact: Narrowing the Gap, Part 1

June 12, 2026

Impact vs. intent: Yes, I’m talking about that much-dreaded moment when someone tells you that something you’ve just said or done hurts or has a negative impact in some way. Perhaps it came across as racist or sexist (or both),…

Organizational Change

Dissonance as a Driver of Change

April 21, 2024

Dissonance drives change. The work of Piaget, Festinger and Lewin (among others) demonstrates that without dissonance, and the equally important process of resolution or integration, it is unlikely that people or organizations will let go of prior ideas and embrace…

Going virtual in a coronavirus-impacted global community: start with compassion

Going Virtual, Organizational Change

From In-Person to Virtual: Head, Heart, Hands

March 17, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic affects all of us, in unprecedented ways. Right now, most of us are facing increasing restrictions on our physical movement, forcing us to change how we conduct business and live our lives. We are noticing that, in…

Academic Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Organizational Change

Celebrating Faculty Leaders: Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity

November 30, 2018

In Fall of 2018, NSF received the final summary report on TECAID, Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity, an NSF-funded project awarded to the Women in Engineering Proactive Network (WEPAN) in collaboration with the American Society of Mechanical…

Diversity & Inclusion, Organizational Change

Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity

March 21, 2018

The TECAID Project TECAID, Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity, is an NSF-funded project that is now a leading voice in making DEI-focused changes in engineering departments. We at Kardia Group feel especially proud to have played the…

Diversity & Inclusion, Organizational Change

The Educational Case for Diversity and Inclusion

October 31, 2017

What does diversity have to do with higher education? Diversity promotes learning. In their landmark Supreme Court case on Affirmative Action, the University of Michigan demonstrated that interactions across social identity differences have the potential to make us smarter. With…

Diversity & Inclusion, Organizational Change

Three Approaches to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

October 3, 2017

For diversity efforts to succeed, we need greater specificity about the meaning of these efforts and the strategies we might use to achieve these outcomes. In our work, we categorize these efforts into three approaches: building representational diversity (what we…

Academic Culture, Organizational Change

The Challenges of Making Change in Academia, Part III

January 4, 2017

Change requires coordination across roles. Faculty and staff have broadly different foci, duties, and goals, as well as different levels and kinds of power within the institution and in relation to each other. Faculty and staff sometimes find it difficult…

Organizational Change

Intent vs. Impact: Narrowing the Gap Part 3: The Narrowing

Intent vs. Impact: Narrowing the Gap Part 2: The Gap

Intent vs. Impact: Narrowing the Gap, Part 1

Dissonance as a Driver of Change

From In-Person to Virtual: Head, Heart, Hands

Celebrating Faculty Leaders: Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity

Transforming Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and Diversity

The Educational Case for Diversity and Inclusion

Three Approaches to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The Challenges of Making Change in Academia, Part III

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