We are visionary leaders, critical thinkers and systemic thinkers. We unearth the complex and root causes of societal and organizational challenges. We create opportunities for everyone who works with us to shine.
Interested in creating a culture that lives up to what you value, and how you want to be in the world?
In 2005, Abundant Sun convened the groundbreaking Diversity Mindset summit — a bold experiment that widened the diversity agenda beyond the workplace to include ecosystems, communities, and global futures.
Twenty years later, we gather again. Diversity Mindset 2025 is a 7-week virtual summit that invites leaders, educators, innovators, and citizens to step away from daily noise and into a space of clarity, reflection, and renewal. During this virtual event we will revisit what was said then, confront what has changed (and what hasn’t), and co-create strategies for more humane, sustainable, and just societies.
With health and wellbeing woven into the programme, Diversity Mindset 2025 is more than a conference — it is a chance to reset our collective compass for the decades ahead.
Our CEO wrote this book. Her fundamental PhD research question was “Why have the diversity management strategies and initiatives of the mid-20th century not yielded significantly the type of social change they were intended to create?”. And more importantly, who do we still practice them? Something was, and is still amiss and it has to give. This is explored in Dismantling Diversity Management.
Dismantling Diversity Management emphasizes the vital importance of ethical and values-driven leadership and of living, not just spouting out, corporate values. It provides a valuable contribution to the international field of diversity management as it highlights the key flaws in traditional diversity management thinking. It presents a clear picture of the barriers in place which make it difficult to achieve desired outcomes within organizations and society. This book is a courageous and refreshing look at diversity. It not only provides a bold critique of how corporate structure has co-opted people into a diversity management model which perpetuates, rather than, transforms the status quo, it also maps out how to break this ineffective cycle.
Dismantling Diversity Management will be of interest to organizational development professionals, diversity and inclusion practitioners, senior executive officers and human resource and talent management professionals. It may not be what you want to hear, but it is what we all have to figure out how to do.
Take the first step on a new journey. Purchase it here.
Transforming cultures is challenging. We’ve developed an E.P.I.C. Journey, Ethical Performance Improvement Campaign, a strategic methodology based on data and science, to help catalyze organizations to build better cultures from within:
Ethical – we believe that to maximize diversity, organizations need strong values-driven climates.
Performance – to matter, organizations need to be high performing.
Improvement – organizations need to be agile to stay in step with an everchanging world.
Campaign – transforming culture isn’t a quick fix. Our work is a collective, long-term effort to create sustainable change.
It’s a journey, not a jaunt.
To help ensure sustainable transformation, we immerse ourselves in our clients’ organizations to gather data, identify strengths and weaknesses and help forge healthy, supportive relationships across silos.
E.P.I.C. outcomes include:
“Abundant Sun offers a team with deep experience, skilled at utilizing data and analytics to identify
strengths and opportunities in your organization. Evolving, defining and/or addressing culture in an
organization is a challenging undertaking and our partnership with Abundant Sun provided us with
the framework for bringing structure and progress to the ever-changing topic of culture.”
– Head of People and Culture of Vermont Energy Investment Corporation (VEIC)
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