DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION TRAINING, COACHING, CONSULTING
What will a Comprehensive, Committed DEI Strategy Do for Your Organization?
A DEI consultant drives opportunities to create a more inclusive and equitable organization where every single team member believes and feels they belong and therefore becomes more engaged. Forbes and McKinsey & Co studies show this situation ultimately leads to a more innovative, competitive and profitable organization.
As a consultant, we enter an organization as a partner, assess the current demographics, discuss company goals with the client, and provide recommendations on how to reach those goals. We work closely with the client to put effective concrete actions into place to ultimately create an environment where everyone in the workplace feels their voice is heard and their ideas matter.
In addition to it being smart for business, some other facts about a true Culture of Inclusion :
- Higher representation of women in C-suite level positions results in 34% greater returns to shareholders. (Fast Company 2015)
- Companies with higher-than-average diversity had 19% higher innovation revenues (Harvard Business Review 2018)
- 43% of companies with divers boards noticed higher profits and highly gender diverse executive teams are found to be 21% more likely to outperform on profitability (McKinsey 2018)
- Teams that are gender, age and ethnically diverse make better decisions up to 87% of the time (Forbes 2017)
- Avoid potentially very costly discrimination and harassment lawsuits
It is the way the world is evolving so be proactive and create Best Practices in a New Normal now to get ahead of the Next Normal
- Companies in the top quarter for racial/ethnic diversity are 35% more likely to surpass peers, while those in the same bracket for gender diversity are 15% more likely to do the same (McKinsey 2015)
- By 2025, Millennials are expected to make up 25% of the US workforce (Brookings Institute 2014) and they are 16% more diverse than Baby Boomers (US Census)
And perhaps most importantly, it is the right thing to do.
*image created by Petra Sorge dos Santos
DEI Trainings
We offer relevant and comprehensive L&D opportunities (training, workshops, seminars):
- Foundations of Diversity & Inclusion
- Understand Everyday Bias,
- Create an Inclusive Culture,
- Lead Inclusively,
- Identify Microagressions,
- Focus on Impact and Consequences as well as Intention,
- Recrute Inclusively,
- What is Intersectionality and How to Leverage it,
- Increase Gender Diversity,
- Thrive with Generational Diversity,
- Become an Anti-Racist,
- How to Become an Ally,
- Build a Mentorship Program,
- Other specific, identified topics UPON REQUEST
DEI Coaching & Consulting
Some recommended actions that we can support you with are to:
- audit the current situation to benchmark a starting point to co-create goals and strategy,
- establish Best Practices and accountability for leaders and employees,
- examine recrutement practices and criteria,
- revise company policies of job design and classification, retention, compensation, promotion and mobility policies
- create Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and/or Diversity Councils
- propose DEI Leadership coaching
- carry out pulse surveys and assessments to verify evolution
- seek out responsible sourcing and diverse partners
- engage the public through your organization's media channels to strengthen your brand's image
- get everyone on board as change agents
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
What are you prepared to do?
- What are your organization's and your personal DEI objectives?
- Why do you want to do the work?
- What are you willing to commit to doing to make real change?
NONE OF US CAN GET AHEAD IF ANY OF US ARE LEFT BEHIND
Diversity
Diversity is any dimension that can be used to differentiate groups and people from one another. It’s about empowering people by respecting and appreciating what makes them different, in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, education, national origin, parental or marital status, ...
Diversity allows for the exploration of these differences in a safe, positive, and nurturing environment.
It means understanding one another by surpassing simple tolerance to ensure people truly value their differences.
Diversity is what you SEE, it's a FACT
Equity
Equity is the fair treatment for all, while striving to identify and eliminate inequities and barriers, giving people what they need and deserve. Equity is different than equality—if I am helping all employees reach the top shelf of the supply room, equal treatment would be to give everyone access to the same height ladder, regardless of how tall they are.
The problem with treating people equally is that not everyone has the same needs.
Compare this to “equitable” treatment: striving to eliminate barriers and overcome past inequities—I would give the tallest people the shortest ladder and the shortest people the tallest ladder so everyone has the same opportunity to reach the top shelf.
Equity is what is demanded
Inclusion
Inclusion is an organizational effort and practices in which different groups or individuals with different backgrounds are culturally and socially accepted and welcomed, and equally treated.
Inclusions is the opposite of exclusion.
These differences could be more obvious such as age, race and ethnicity, gender, marital status, national origin, religion/belief, and socioeconomic status or they could be less obvious such as neurodiversity, educational background, training, sector experience, organizational tenure, even personality, such as introverts and extroverts.
Inclusion is what you DO, it's an ACT
Belonging
Belonging is the feeling of security and support when there is a sense of acceptance, inclusion, and identity for a member of a specific group.
Belonging is when an individual can bring their authentic self to work.
When employees feel like they don’t belong at work, their professional performance and their personal lives suffer. Creating genuine feelings of belonging for all is a critical factor in improving engagement and performance.
Belonging also helps support business goals.
Justice
Social justice includes a vision of society in which the distribution of resources is equitable, and all members are physically and psychologically safe and secure.
Social justice involves social actors who have a sense of their own agency as well as a sense of social responsibility toward and with others and the society as a whole.
Social Justice requires strong Allies.
The Future
It's up to each of us...
Welcome to DEIB
Diversity is being invited to the party;
Inclusion is being asked to dance.
- Verna Myers/VP, Inclusion Strategy at Netflix
Belonging is dancing like nobody's watching.