EDI consulting helps organizations identify systemic barriers, strengthen inclusion, improve accessibility, and create practical plans for organizational change.
Consulting Support for Sustainable Organizational Change
Anti-Oppression Resources provides consulting services across five core practice areas:
- Anti-Oppression and EDI
- Anti-Racism
- 2SLGBTQIA+ Inclusion
- Disability Inclusion and Accessibility
- Truth and Reconciliation
Within each consulting area, AOR helps organizations develop strategies, action plans, policies, programs, governance practices, learning initiatives, and organizational change processes that support more equitable, inclusive, and accessible workplaces, services, and communities.
Our consulting is evidence-informed, tailored to each organization’s context, and focused on practical, sustainable, and measurable change.
Anti-Oppression and EDI Consulting
Anti-Oppression and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion consulting helps organizations identify and address systemic barriers that may contribute to inequitable outcomes for employees, clients, and communities.
EDI work often focuses on inclusion, representation, belonging, and equitable participation. However, anti-oppression also examines how organizational structures, policies, practices, decision-making, and power dynamics may reproduce inequities.
Together, these approaches help organizations create environments where people have equitable opportunities to participate, contribute, and thrive.
Anti-Oppression Resources works with organizations to integrate equity and anti-oppression into:
- Organizational strategy
- Governance
- Leadership
- Policies and procedures
- Programs and services
- Employee engagement
- Organizational culture
- Evaluation and accountability
Anti-Oppression and EDI Consulting May Include
- Equity assessments
- EDI strategies
- Organizational action plans
- Policy reviews
- Governance consulting
- Employee engagement
- Change-management support
- Program and initiative evaluation
Our goal is to help organizations build sustainable systems that support long-term equity rather than relying on one-time initiatives.
Anti-Racism Consulting
Anti-racism consulting helps organizations understand, prevent, and address racism at individual, organizational, and systemic levels.
Rather than focusing only on awareness or racial diversity, anti-racism work examines inequitable policies, practices, organizational systems, and power structures. It supports the development of intentional strategies for addressing racial inequities and strengthening accountability.
This work can help organizations strengthen workplace culture, improve programs and service delivery, and advance their commitments to equity and human rights.
Anti-Racism Consulting May Include
- Organizational assessments
- Anti-racism strategies
- Policy development and review
- Strategic planning
- Anti-racism action plans
- Leadership consultation
- Employee education
- Community engagement
- Evaluation and accountability planning
AOR works collaboratively with organizations to strengthen the knowledge, capacity, accountability, and internal systems required for meaningful and lasting change.
2SLGBTQIA+ Inclusion Consulting
2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion consulting supports organizations in creating workplaces, services, and communities where people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions, and sex characteristics are respected, safe, and included.
Meaningful inclusion can help organizations improve psychological safety, strengthen service quality, support employee attraction and retention, and meet their human rights responsibilities.
AOR helps organizations move beyond symbolic inclusion by examining the policies, practices, language, systems, and workplace cultures that shape people’s everyday experiences.
2SLGBTQIA+ Inclusion Consulting May Include
- Organizational assessments
- Inclusive policy development
- Strategic planning
- Employee education
- Leadership consultation
- Inclusive-language guidance
- Pride planning
- Gender-inclusive practices
- Program and service reviews
Our consulting supports practical organizational and cultural change that strengthens inclusion across policies, programs, services, and workplace practices.
Disability Inclusion and Accessibility Consulting
Disability inclusion and accessibility consulting focuses on identifying and removing barriers that may prevent persons with disabilities from participating fully and equitably in workplaces, programs, services, facilities, and community life.
These barriers may be:
- Physical
- Attitudinal
- Communication-related
- Technological
- Organizational
- Systemic
Our approach is grounded in the social model of disability, which recognizes that disability is shaped not only by an individual’s impairment but also by barriers within society and organizations.
Disability justice expands this perspective by centring intersectionality, collective access, leadership by disabled people, and the transformation of systems that have historically marginalized disabled communities.
Accessibility is therefore about more than legislative compliance. It is also about designing organizations, services, and environments that are inclusive and accessible from the beginning.
Disability Inclusion and Accessibility Consulting May Include
- Accessibility planning
- Accessibility audits
- AODA compliance support
- Accessible communications
- Policy development and review
- Workplace accommodation practices
- Inclusive service design
- Employee and leadership education
- Accessibility action planning
- Governance and strategy support
AOR helps organizations integrate accessibility and disability inclusion into their strategies, governance, policies, programs, services, and organizational cultures.
Our work considers the experiences of people with visible, invisible, physical, sensory, cognitive, intellectual, mental health, and neurodivergent disabilities.
Technical Accessibility Consulting
AOR also provides technical accessibility consulting to help organizations understand and respond to legislative requirements and recognized accessibility standards.
Services may include:
- Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act compliance support
- Accessibility audits
- Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification assessments
- Accessibility implementation planning
- Barrier identification
- Improvement prioritization
- Accessibility-plan development
- Built-environment accessibility support
This work helps organizations improve regulatory compliance while strengthening the accessibility of spaces and services for employees, clients, and community members.
Truth and Reconciliation Consulting
Truth and Reconciliation consulting helps organizations strengthen respectful relationships with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis Peoples while addressing the continuing effects of colonialism.
This work may involve learning about Indigenous histories, rights, and experiences; responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action; supporting Indigenous self-determination; and embedding reconciliation into organizational policies, practices, governance, and relationships.
AOR works with organizations to develop practical and meaningful approaches grounded in collaboration, accountability, relationship-building, and continuous learning.
Truth and Reconciliation Consulting May Include
- Reconciliation action plans
- Indigenous engagement strategies
- Policy and program reviews
- Organizational education
- Land acknowledgement development
- Governance support
- Strategic planning
- Guidance on implementing reconciliation commitments
The goal is to support organizations in integrating reconciliation commitments across their strategies, policies, programs, services, governance practices, and organizational relationships.
A Tailored Consulting Approach
Every organization has a different history, structure, sector, audience, and level of experience with equity and organizational change.
AOR’s consulting approach is tailored to each organization’s priorities, existing initiatives, available capacity, and desired outcomes.
Depending on the project, consulting may include:
- Organizational assessments
- Interviews and focus groups
- Employee or community surveys
- Policy and document reviews
- Strategy development
- Action planning
- Leadership consultation
- Education and facilitated learning
- Program evaluation
- Implementation and accountability support
Frequently Asked Questions About Anti-Oppression Training
EDI consulting may include organizational assessments, strategy development, action planning, policy reviews, employee engagement, leadership consultation, education, evaluation, and implementation support.
EDI consulting often focuses on inclusion, representation, belonging, and equitable participation. Anti-oppression consulting also examines how organizational systems, policies, power, and decision-making may contribute to inequitable outcomes.
Yes. AOR can provide support in one focused area or across several connected areas, including anti-racism, 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusion, disability inclusion and accessibility, and Truth and Reconciliation.
AOR supports municipalities, nonprofits, healthcare organizations, educational institutions, public-sector organizations, foundations, and professional associations.
AOR considers the organization’s sector, goals, current initiatives, timeline, capacity, and desired outcomes before recommending an appropriate approach.
Find the Right Consulting Support
Your organization may require support in one consulting area or across several interconnected areas.
Contact Anti-Oppression Resources to discuss how EDI consulting can support your organization’s priorities, current challenges, and long-term goals.