Knowledge Designs to Change enters into partnerships as a true collaborator, listening and learning about the organization’s needs and co-designing methods that best suit the organization’s journey toward change. We seek to adapt our services and methods to achieve socio-political change that is deep, structural, and lasting.
We value the contribution of all participants in knowledge efforts. KD2Change believes that actively learning and teaming with partners toward shared values and visions for the future is key to maximizing the talents and energies of our partners. As part of knowledge strategy, we also encourage public sharing of partners’ experiences and learning to benefit a broader base of constituents, colleagues, and change agents.
We seek to co-design ways of working together that are most beneficial to the task. We offer our partners various frameworks, from standard scopes of work, to product-driven engagements, to longer term and retainer-based arrangements that provide clients an as-needed approach to their knowledge supports.
We can work with organizations in a variety of ways, such as through:
- a co-designed scope of services:
- a project-based engagement:
- one-on-one or team coaching;
- organization capacity building supports;
- research design and inquiry facilitation, and
- shaping your processes and lessons learned in case formats for broader sharing.
We can also engage on a retainer basis as we recognize that knowledge development can be amorphous and often shifts with the needs of the initiative. Retainers provide an option for organizations to access a variety of knowledge services as they are needed over time. This option is quite useful early in a design process and for organizations that have little or no dedicated knowledge staff.