Winning Inclusive Solutions: WINS Canada

Our Vision WINS is a not-for-profit that promotes inclusive policies and programs in Canada’s workforce. We are committed to advocate and help take steps towards ensuring the creation of more equitable workplaces in which diverse members of our society can flourish. Our Mission We bring a growth mindset to diversity issues. The key to equity is a paradigm shift that sees all members of Canadian society being accepted and valued for their distinctive strengths. This shift can be brought about only by questioning the status quo. WINS is committed to being part of such advocacy. Our Defining Values • Collaboration and Co-creation • Respectful Dialogue • Openness to Change • Acceptance and Humanness • One World Focus What we do and how we do it? We intend to achieve this through three main initiatives as follows: 1. Showcasing Diverse Voices: This initiative uses thorough community research that involves interviews, questionnaires, surveys, case studies and focus groups to examine the unique challenges of the groups we are representing. 2. Road to Success: This initiative highlights diverse professionals’ skills and strengths in a variety of ways. We provide a public platform for diverse professionals as speakers. In addition, we offer consulting to employers, government service providers and other not-for-profits which aim to empower diverse professionals towards success. Through all this, we are finding proactive ways to bring employers, diverse professionals, and policy makers together to forge a novel, growth-driven approach that benefits all. 3. The Diversity Forum: Our national tri-annual newsletter. It has been established to promote promote dialogue and discussion with the broader community to highlight a range of views on issues affecting under-represented groups in Canadian society.