Culture > Diversity and Inclusion
What is a Diverse and Inclusive Culture, and why is it important?
An inclusive environment is about more than just reflecting the communities you serve. It allows your people to bring their best selves to work and contribute fully. It also enables you to achieve and nurture the diversity of thought, skills and talent you need to succeed in increasingly challenging markets.
What is a Diverse and Inclusive Culture, and why is it important?
An inclusive environment is about more than just reflecting the communities you serve. It allows your people to bring their best selves to work and contribute fully. It also enables you to achieve and nurture the diversity of thought, skills and talent you need to succeed in increasingly challenging markets.
The benefits of Diverse and Inclusive Cultures
- More attractive attraction, because candidates favour companies with diverse workforces
- Greater innovation, because everyone’s ideas are welcomed
- Effective collaboration that draws on different perspectives and collective ownership of business success
- Improved financial and organisational performance
- A better understanding of your current team and its subcultures
Our approach:
We support organisations to rethink their approach to everything from culture, values, onboarding and the talent lifecycle to employer branding and attraction strategy. Our work breaks down barriers and opens doors to current and new colleagues alike.
Explore the steps we take below.
Step one
We’ll undertake an analysis to understand and evaluate your existing culture for diversity and inclusivity.
Step two
Defining the way ahead
Working with you, we’ll develop a plan to support you in shaping a diverse and inclusive culture which aligns with your ED&I strategy and targets.
Step three
Recommendations all across the talent lifecycle
From talent attraction to internal engagement, we’ll make actionable recommendations for every touchpoint. We’ll help you roll them out, too.
Recent Culture Change Influencer projects:
Building inclusive cultures for Crayon through insight and initiatives
Crayon are deeply committed to DEIB, it’s woven into their values and shapes their actions at every level. We supported Crayon with their first DEIB survey;
- guiding the process
- providing the analysis
- shaping the action plan.
We moved Crayon from insights to action, accelerating progress to make a meaningful impact for their employees.
Turning data to insight for HSBCs Global Graduate Programme
HSBC had no issues attracting talent. But they needed to make a difference when it came to diversity through the pipeline. Through data science, combined with audience insights we supported HSBC gain clarity on the pain points for perception, preference, and progression, identifying where there was potential bias, or wider challenges impacting their progress to shaping a more diverse and inclusive graduate cohort.
“Workplace culture isn’t a slide deck - it’s how people feel, behave and belong. And we give a damn about getting that right.”
Meet our culture experts:
Richard Badley
With over 20 years of experience, Richard loves using data to tackle organisational challenges and measure employee engagement - he developed our Organisation Network Analysis framework to do just that.
Hafsa Aziz
Hafsa has been consulting organisations for over 8 years in culture change, strategy and people development.
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Every day, we make organisations around the world better places to work, learn and belong.
