DEI
for the Built Environment
(AEC | CRE)
Industries creating the built environment, namely architecture/engineering/construction (AEC), as well as commercial real estate (CRE) have historically been plagued with ongoing diversity, equity, and inclusion disparities. As the industry begins to shift to implement more inclusive practices, PRAXIS has been at the forefront of initiatives. PRAXIS is uniquely positioned to partner with firms working in the built environments because we understand project procurement and delivery, studio/jobsite silos, and has the necessary lens to integrate DEI into operations and firm culture. More than ever, this is a business imperative for recruitment and retention, as well as ensuring well-rounded project delivery. Our approach to developing DEI strategy is rooted in recognizing and identifying racial inequities.
DEIB Certified Consultant
PRAXIS Strategic Consulting combines decades of AEC | CRE industry experience with certified diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging expertise, delivered through a culturally competent lens.
DEI Consulting for the Built Environment -
Services
- Consultation, culture & custom DEl strategy development
- Cultural Assessments: including surveys, focus groups, and stakeholder interviews
- Equity Assessments: including surveys, focus groups, and stakeholder interviews
- Heritage Month & observance events and toolkits
- Diversity Strategy & Metrics
- Anti-Racism Resources
- Policy development and implementation
- Employee Resource Group (ERG) consultation & training
- Crisis communications
- Project team alignment and engagement
- Community engagement
- Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Strategy Alignment
DEI Keynotes, Workshops & Trainings
Sample Topics/Subjects Include:
- DEI in the Built Environment
- Diversity Dimensions for AEC Teams
- Professional Services Marketing through a DEI Lens
- Project Teambuilding with MBE/Diverse partners
- DEI Strategic Planning
- Intentional Intersectionality
- Culturally Competent Community Engagement
- Authentic Engagement - Activating Civic & Social Activism
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PRAXIS operates at the intersection of strategy, equity, and marketing.
Our unique skill set provides unmatched value and proven results to organizations serving the built environment.
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3839 McKinney Ave.
Suite 155-752
Dallas*, TX 75204
PRAXIS LAND & LABOR ACKNOWLEDGMENT
As a Dallas, TX-based firm, our work takes place on the lands of the Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo), Towakani, Caddo, Wichita, as well as the tribes that may have lived here and roamed the area – including Comanche, Kiowa and Apache—historic Indigenous communities in Texas. In offering this land acknowledgment, we honor, respect, and affirm Indigenous sovereignty, history, and experiences.
In addition, we acknowledge that much of what we know of this country today, including its culture, economic growth, and development throughout history and across time, has been made possible by the labor of enslaved Africans and their ascendants who suffered the horror of the transatlantic trafficking of their people, chattel slavery, and Jim Crow. We are indebted to their labor and their sacrifice, and we must acknowledge the tremors of that violence throughout the generations and the resulting racial, political, social, and justice inequities that permeate the Built Environment.