IC Edge
is a full-service diversity consulting firm specializing in moving organizations to higher levels of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB)
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Why Choose IC Edge?
We help you to identify, clarify, and achieve your diversity goals
We guide you with experienced facilitators, researchers, and DEIB coaches
Our experiential learning methodology helps you to internalize key concepts without feelings of shame or blame
We customize the process and programs to fit your organization’s needs
We are a minority-owned company with several decades of corporate, educational, and global experiences that bring theory and practice together
Since its inception in 2015, IC Edge has worked across all major industries:
Corporations
Mid-Size Companies
Education (K-12 and College)
Non-Profit Organizations
Government Agencies
Industries
Our People-Centered Approach
IC Edge takes a person-centered approach to building DEIB at your organization. We meet individuals where they are regarding their development and help each person to move forward without feelings of blame and shame. We use a rigorously tested, research-based approach to assess your organization’s level of intercultural competence, educate each stakeholder, and then guide the team through our unique and customized diversity strategy development process.
Our Vision
A World that Values and Respects Everyone
Our Mission
To create unity, equity, and inclusion through intercultural understanding and appreciation
Our Core Belief
We believe that progress starts at the individual level. To begin the journey, we work on each individual’s intercultural competence. Intercultural competence is a mindset and a skill that is needed to foster diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging within any environment.
What is intercultural competence?
Intercultural competence is an individual’s and organization’s ability
to recognize and adapt to cultural differences in order to:
build stronger cross-cultural relationships
create inclusive and equitable workplaces
achieve organizational and social goals
Why is Intercultural Competence the foundation of the IC Edge approach?
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Simply put, it is a mindset and skill that allows an individual to work effectively across cultural differences based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ableness, generation, and many more identities that make us different. Since organizations are made up of individuals, starting at the people level, the entire organization is transformed to a higher level of intercultural competence.
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An interculturally incompetent organization will commonly struggle to genuinely and authentically foster diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Such an organization often gets caught in the many misconceptions about diversity work (what we call diversity clutter) and will go in circles until people in the organization are fatigued and stuck. Having intercultural competence as the foundation eliminates this diversity fatigue and creates a more inspired organization.
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Intercultural competence is measured at both the individual level and the organizational level by using the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI®). IC Edge develops a program to help your team improve its skills and competence with the Intercultural Development Continuum™. This process takes the guesswork out of moving your staff and organization to higher levels of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
“I’ve traveled the world extensively, leading workshops with 30 different cultures. My global exposure has been incredibly insightful and has heightened my cultural competence. However, this workshop opened my eyes to the nuances of culture and how to ‘connect’ on a different level by building strong cultural relationships. It was my ‘missing piece’ to drive transformational behavior shifts and outcomes.”
Scott A. Morris, International Sales Development Leader
