Training Services
Transform Your Workplace with Justice, Equity, and Inclusion
At RADIUS SFU, we believe education is the key to creating more just, equitable, and inclusive workplaces. It fosters shared language, bridges diverse perspectives, and deepens understanding of intersectional identities and experiences— laying the foundation for harmonious relationships, better decision-making, and solutions that drive meaningful change for your team and community.
Informed by over a decade of work with underrepresented communities in RADIUS labs, our workshops and training provide tools to build awareness, take action, and sustain change. Tailored to your individual, team, and organizational goals and needs, our programs help leaders and organizations create communities where everyone can thrive.
Explore our programs and take the next step towards lasting, transformative change.
We Are All Designers
Design isn’t just for architects or artists—it’s for anyone who solves problems, makes decisions, or creates solutions. At RADIUS SFU, we believe your “designs”— policies, services, products, or programs—hold the power to shape lives and transform communities.
Too often, solutions are created by and for a privileged few, leaving many excluded and underserved. This results in barriers like inequitable hiring practices, disengaged teams, and programs that miss the mark – leaving staff potential untapped and community needs underserved.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
By embracing inclusivity in our approaches, we can create solutions that work for everyone—driving meaningful, sustainable change and building a better future.
Learning Pathway: From Foundation to Action
Our learning pathway takes participants from foundational knowledge to practical application. It equips individuals and teams with tools to design, lead, and sustain workplace change.
EDI Foundations
EDI Foundations
Build a solid foundation of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) principles by fostering awareness and accountability. Understand how these principles have been historically overlooked and learn to identify and address biases that unintentionally impact decisions and relationships. Create inclusive environments, embrace equitable decisions, and strengthen connections within teams.
Equity-Centered Design
Equity-Centered Design
Apply creative problem-solving tools and frameworks to design decision-making processes that actually address the root cause of challenges. Develop more effective and inclusive policies, products, and services that reflect the diverse needs of your clients, teams and community.
Inclusive Leadership
Inclusive Leadership
Cultivate a leadership mindset and capacity to create organizational teams and spaces where all can thrive. Learn how strong relationships and equitable practices can enhance collective decision-making, unlock new ideas, create harmonious teams, and promote an inclusive culture - which ultimately improve the delivery of services, programs, and mandates.
Our Training Offerings
Our Approach
We approach this work in a relational, vulnerable, and compassionate way.
We meet people wherever they are on their learning journey, encouraging growth without blame or shame. We create safe, non-judgmental, and accountable spaces for learning, where participants can engage in meaningful, strengths-based discussions that go beyond surface-level understanding.
Our training is rooted in anti-racist, intersectional, equity-centered, and trauma-informed principles. With over 18 years of teaching, 15 years of consulting across public and private sectors, 24 years in social innovation, and 30+ years in research and advocacy, our team brings diverse expertise and lived experiences.
EDI Foundations
Our half-day EDI Foundations training helps teams and individuals explore systemic racism, power, and oppression, equipping them to apply Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion principles in their work. This training empowers individuals and organizations to increase awareness, foster accountability, and take actionable steps to address inequities and drive meaningful systems change.
Through interactive modules and reflective learning, we create safe, accountable spaces to learn, unlearn, and take action. Participants deepen their understanding of concepts like unconscious bias, privilege, and intersectionality and understand how they have personal and professional impacts in interactions and decision-making.
Equity-Centered Design
Our half-day Equity-Centered Design training equips teams with creative problem-solving skills to integrate justice, equity, and inclusion into decision-making and design processes.
By prioritizing the voices and needs of impacted communities – such as historically excluded or underserved – ECD ensures projects, programs, and processes are designed ‘right the first time,’ creating meaningful, useful solutions while saving time and resources.
This training introduces and dives deeper into an equity-centered design framework and principles. It contrasts them with traditional design thinking approaches through examining the role of power, privilege, and systemic barriers that limit our ideas and result in ineffective or harmful solutions.
Participants will learn to:
- Engage stakeholders authentically.
- Co-create strategies with impacted communities.
- Challenge biases and apply practical frameworks for discovery, ideation, prototyping, and iteration.
By fostering inclusive, collaborative processes, ECD empowers teams to create equitable outcomes that meet the needs of those often excluded.
Inclusive Leadership
Our half- day Inclusive Leadership training equips leaders with modern people management practices for staff and teams to bring their best selves and do their best work.
This training emphasizes emotional intelligence, active listening, and modeling inclusive behaviors to foster a culture of respect and collaboration. Leaders will learn to:
- Foster psychological safety and address discrimination
- Identify and mitigate biases and barriers that impact how we manage teams and make decisions
- Embrace co-creation to reflect the diversity of their teams
By leading with empathy, cultivating accountability, and sustaining a culture of belonging, leaders can drive meaningful systemic transformation while creating environments where all voices are valued.
CONTACT
Questions?
To book a RADIUS session, please provide your organization’s training goals, team size, and preferred dates to help us understand and meet your needs. You can also reach us at consulting@radiussfu.com.
Organizations We've Worked With
Testimonials
RADIUS's training in inclusive design was immensely valuable, both personally and professionally for our HR staff. Their unique hosting and facilitation processes made for a learning environment in which our authentic selves were valued, we were provided the self-determination to define our outcomes, and utilization of the training learnings were immediate.
We were thrilled to have had the opportunity to work with RADIUS to help immigrants, refugees, and newcomers to access culturally relevant and meaningful
opportunities to leverage and future-proof their skills. As a result, we have identified three solutions that have potential to be explored further. We greatly appreciate the partnership between RADIUS and BII+E. We hope to continue working together in the near future!
RADIUS facilitated a session on centring equity within all our design processes, and it was a rewarding session for our team, both personally and professionally. The session gave us an opportunity to sit with big questions that reenergized us to look at our work differently.
Working with Leah and the RADIUS team on the City of Chilliwack Inclusion Project was a monumental time in my professional and personal career. The ease in which they led discovery sessions with council and staff, assessed current EDI knowledge, developed an education strategy, and delivered training and workshops made such valuable steps in the direction needed. Our time together was full of equity a-ha moments for all, and I can't wait to work with them on future projects and engagements.
We thank RADIUS for such a successful partnership and project, for being so professional, flexible, relatable, and patient with our demands, changes, and overall, just a pleasure to work with. I would love to work with you again in the future if the opportunity arises!
Working with the RADIUS consultancy team to move our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion practices and processes forward in the international office has been an educational and positive experience. Their ability to meet people where they are was a living example of how to work through diversity tension within a team. Creating an awareness of the importance of applying the EDI lens in program and service design for students was an incredible growth opportunity and inspired our individual journeys to learn more.
The team at RADIUS lives its values as they help co-create solutions to pressing system problems. Over the decade that I've worked alongside RADIUS, I've seen facilitators with lived experience guide clients/participants through a process of identifying the challenge and creating a learning experience to ideate solutions. The solutions are often complex but you can count on RADIUS to offer a supportive community to be there throughout the change process.
A highlight for me during the Solutions Lab was meeting others who were equally as passionate about dignified seniors housing and support. Hearing from multiple perspectives and using different methods and facilitation techniques to articulate and evaluate different models motivated participants to collaborate and brainstorm about innovative approaches.
“A highlight was Creative Ideation! Everyone jived really well and are clearly passionate with diverse opinions. Open and honest in the process and created safe space for discussion.”
"Lab participants have a diverse background and experience. Lab facilitators are well prepared and the approach is well designed.”
“A highlight was working together with my peers on SOLUTIONS.”
It was the first time we've ever brought all the different organizations together and I knew we needed someone with strong facilitation skills to keep us focused. The RADIUS facilitator was able to keep us on track without making the session feel rushed. It was serious work but we also wanted it to be fun. We finished the day with a joint vision for how we all work together.
I learned a lot from [the] design sprint; I’ve incorporated some of [the] tools and techniques into an upcoming session I’m planning, and I have [RADIUS] to thank for several great ideas!
It was a pleasure working with Katie & Miranda who designed our first custom workshop on "Inclusive Design for Climate Action" at SFU. We reached out to them for this work because we knew that their expertise on inclusive design was unparalleled and we had many working groups and committees working on climate action that needed this kind of support. They really delivered! The training was well informed, tangibly guided participants through the connections between equity, climate change, environmental racism and climate justice, and grounded all the learning in a context that was relevant and actionable at our university. I was so impressed by how they were able to bring our workshop vision to life and seamlessly make connections that can often be difficult for many to grasp. This workshop is a major stepping stone for our working groups, who left the training with a practical understanding of how they can ensure that equity is a part of all of their climate action project design processes. Would highly recommend RADIUS for your organization’s inclusive design training needs.
