Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Build and empower a diverse workforce

Research shows that diverse organizations are more successful at attracting and retaining talent, making high-quality decisions, and pursuing successful innovation. But the value of diversity is only fully captured when an organization is equitable and inclusive—when systems, leaders, and peers foster a welcoming and fair environment for all—ensuring no opportunity, talent, or potential is missed.

We help organizations maximize performance through the power of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workforce. With proprietary tools, we measure inclusion with precision, providing insights into different experiences across employee groups. To inspire commitment, we draw on our industry-leading research and align leaders around the organization’s specific business case for diversity. And we support action at every level of the organization to create a workplace where everyone is empowered to make meaningful contributions.

What we do

Assess the baseline and set strategy

Lead a comprehensive diagnostic to identify and share insights on the current state; support clients to establish specific, bold, and achievable DE&I goals and a prioritized roadmap for how to achieve the aspiration.

Build capabilities and shift behavior

Design and lead programs to build DE&I capabilities at every level, empowering people across the organization to apply new skills and adopt inclusive behaviors.

Guide transformational change

Deliver multi-year DE&I programs that include a tailored portfolio of initiatives for sustainable improvements, help actively manage implementation, and track and celebrate impact.

Featured capabilities

Building on our expertise and research, we employ proprietary assessments, analytics-powered digital solutions, and facilitated programs to help establish and empower a diverse workforce:

Connected Leaders Academy: Advances racial equity by offering tailored programs to equip leaders with the capabilities, mindsets, behaviors, and network needed to achieve their professional aspirations, including Black Leadership Academy

DE&I Maturity Assessment: Evaluates the maturity of an organization’s DE&I strategy and programs across five key dimensions to identify opportunity areas

Inclusion Assessment: Provides a data-driven approach to measure workplace inclusion and build targeted, actionable plans to mitigate inequity

Inclusion Incubator: Offers a multi-faceted capability-building program, designed to meet learners where they are in their DE&I journey and support them in creating a more inclusive organization

People Process Debiasing: Analyzes sources of bias in people processes, resulting in a set of tailored interventions to make debiasing efforts impactful and sustainable

Sponsor Match: Provides actionable information on current and potential sponsorship relationships that can provide greater support to high potential employees

Talent Pipeline Analytics and Scenario Modeling: Maps an organization’s talent landscape by dimensions such as gender, race, and ethnicity, across functions and levels; generates insights and models to inform goal setting that is both bold and feasible

Examples of our work

Engaging leaders to support transformational change

A US-based hospitality company wanted to engage top leaders to increase gender and racial equity in senior roles across the entire organization. We developed and implemented a multi-year action plan that gave executives new DE&I tools, insights and support. Within the first year, the organization saw a 5 percent jump in women in senior roles.

Pursuing diversity, boosting competitiveness

A global healthcare company needed to set a new long-term strategy to attract and retain the diverse talent required to stay competitive. After rolling out customized initiatives, the company saw a 40 percent decrease in attrition while increasing the number of women in leadership roles by 30 percent.

Increasing workplace inclusivity

An advanced materials company needed to address pervasive behaviors that were suppressing innovation and idea sharing, putting business performance at risk. We launched a comprehensive program that inspired leadership commitment, engaged a broad employee base, and made key process changes—all resulting in a dramatic, measurable increase in workplace inclusiveness.

Featured experts

Featured interview

Interview

‘Making the world a better place never feels like work’: An interview with chief DEI officer Indhira Arrington

August 11, 2022 -

Ares Management’s first global chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer is building the company’s DEI strategy from the ground up. Here’s how she’s doing it.

Featured insights

A silhouette image featuring photos of diverse women of all ages and background. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the annual Women in the Workplace report in partnership with Lean In.

Report

Women in the Workplace 2024: The 10th-anniversary report

September 17, 2024 -

In the tenth year of our Women in the Workplace research, in partnership with LeanIn.Org, we reflect on the notable gains women have made—and how their experiences at work are, in many ways, the same or worse than ten years ago.