About TEDI
Research-informed thinking. Practical organisational change.
TEDI Consultancy Ltd was established to bridge the gap between research, policy and everyday organisational practice. We draw on experience in education, career development, EDI, organisational leadership and inclusive practice.
Our purpose, mission and vision
Our purpose
To move organisations beyond good intentions, ensuring equity and inclusion shape decisions, practices and organisational culture.
Our mission
To equip organisations with the insight, strategies and practical tools to challenge systemic barriers, embed inclusive practices and create lasting, measurable change.
Our vision
A future where equity and inclusion are embedded into the systems, cultures and decisions that shape people’s opportunities.
The TEDI Framework
Transformative Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
A practical, grounded framework for meaningful change. Designed with real-world settings in mind, TEDI helps embed equity into practice, policies and everyday decisions. It is built around four interlocking pillars that support a cycle of reflection, action and accountability.
Introduced in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Career Development: A Practical Handbook (2025). Each TEDI engagement is shaped around your organisation’s context, drawing on the framework where it is the right fit.
Transformative assessment
You can’t fix what you haven’t fully seen.
Critically assessing where you are now – asking the hard questions, gathering honest feedback and looking beneath surface-level representation, so change is rooted in reality, not assumption.
KEY TOOLS · Audits, surveys, lived experience data, deep listening
Equitable initiatives
Equity requires intention.
Developing and implementing initiatives that actively centre equity, co-created with the people most affected – from inclusive recruitment to anti-discrimination policy.
KEY TOOLS · Stakeholder engagement, safe spaces, inclusive policy development, leadership representation
Diversifying the culture
Culture isn’t static – it can be shaped.
Fostering an environment where all identities are respected, all contributions are valued and everyone feels they belong – embedding diversity into the culture itself, beyond token gestures.
KEY TOOLS · Training, reflective leadership, mentoring, dismantling exclusionary norms
Inclusive practices
Equity in action.
Making inclusion tangible by designing systems that work for the people they are meant to serve – especially those traditionally excluded – with accessibility, adaptability and reflection built in.
KEY TOOLS · Inclusive communications, flexible processes, reflective audits, accountability structures
Our values
What guides our work
Equity
Fairness in access, opportunity and outcome – not just equal treatment.
Integrity
Honest, evidence-informed advice, even when it is uncomfortable.
Collaboration
Working alongside your people, not delivering change to them.
Accountability
Clear commitments, owners and measures of progress.
Sustainable impact
Change that lasts beyond a single project or training day.
Our working principles
Four principles behind every engagement
- 01
Understand
Explore organisational context and challenges.
- 02
Evaluate
Identify barriers and opportunities using evidence.
- 03
Develop
Design practical, proportionate solutions.
- 04
Embed
Support implementation, reflection and improvement.
Meet the founder
Ifza Shakoor
Founder, TEDI Consultancy
Ifza is an education professional, EDI practitioner and organisational leader whose work spans schools, alternative education and prison education. She founded TEDI to bridge the gap between research, policy and the everyday practice of organisations.
She is currently undertaking doctoral research examining ethnic diversity within England’s career development sector – work that directly informs TEDI’s evidence-led approach.
- Published author
- Author of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Career Development: A Practical Handbook (Trotman Indigo Publishing, in partnership with the CDI, 2025).
- Peer-reviewed research
- Co-author of “Career-related learning in primary schools: a city collaborative approach in England”, British Journal of Guidance & Counselling (2022).
- Doctoral research
- Doctoral researcher examining ethnic diversity within England’s career development sector.
- CDI EDI Associate
- The Career Development Institute’s first EDI Associate, contributing to the development of its EDI strategy.
- Practice
- Experience across schools, alternative education and prison education.
- Teaching
- Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) since 2015.
- Leadership
- Experience in educational leadership, organisational management, inclusive practice and professional development.
Research & publications
Grounded in research. Shaped by practice.
Book · Published 4 November 2025
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Career DevelopmentA Practical Handbook
Ifza Shakoor · Trotman Indigo Publishing, in partnership with the Career Development Institute
A practical handbook for career development practitioners, services and policymakers on embedding equity, diversity and inclusion into everyday practice – with strategies, case studies and reflective exercises.
The book introduces the TEDI Framework – Transformative Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion – alongside a practical toolkit for practitioners.
- Ethnicity
- Gender
- Disability
- Religion
- Neurodiversity
- Socioeconomic status
Journal article · Peer-reviewed · 2022
Career-related learning in primary schools: a city collaborative approach in England
Hughes, D., Shakoor, I., Hampshire, K. & Croll, L. (2022). British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 50(3), 443–461.
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