Diversity Delivers
In today's complex organisational landscape, removing the barriers to talent attraction and retention and realising the dividend from diversity can only be achieved through a thoughtful, strategic, and evidence-based approach, tailored to your company.
So, our approach is based on three key questions on diversity and inclusion (D&I):
- What?
- Why?
- How?
By answering those fundamental questions with you, "Diversity Delivers" provides a comprehensive service designed to help your organisation uncover, understand, and focus your investment in D&I to create lasting change.
The Diversity Delivers Approach
Our service is built on three key pillars:
Diagnostic What are the talent and diversity issues and opportunities
Dividend How can a fresh focus on issues of diversity and inclusion reap rewards for your organisation
Delivery What needs to be done (differently) to remove systemic barriers and maximise returns on inclusion
Each component works in synch to provide a thorough, insightful, and actionable pathway to increasing the diversity you need and the inclusion you want, in order to make the most of it.
Diagnostic
The Diagnostic phase is where we look under the bonnet (we thought you wouldn’t mind the occasional cliché…..) to understand the real blocks to potential for employees within your organisation, and their experience of working with you.
We analyse data expertly by meaningful categories - not driven by dogma or assumptions.
We ask key questions:
- Do the imbalances in your staff - disaggregated by job family, grade,
- function – matter? Against what baseline do you make that judgement?
- What are the material causes of those imbalances? It may seem obvious but if you don’t know what creates the problem, you’re not going to solve it.
- What can your company do to reset these imbalances and over what time frame (we do the maths)?
We will also conduct a thorough review of your current policies, but we won’t stop there. We believe in the power of 'warm' data, gathered through focus groups and direct employee engagement, to paint a true picture of your organisational culture and the effectiveness of your D&I actions and initiatives.
Through this deep dive, we uncover:
Employee Engagement: How engaged are your employees with current D&I efforts? Are they willing to share their voices and experiences? Do they speak up and feel they can just speak freely?
Evidence-Based Insights: Identifying good practice, areas of risk, and the areas that need enhancement
Priority Areas Providing a clear evidence base - drawn from meaningful analysis - to guide strategic decision-making and resource allocation.
This diagnostic process ensures that your organisation has a solid foundation of data-driven insights and recommended actions, created from meaningful diagnostic categories, so that you are empowered to take action.
Dividend
The dividend stage focuses on transforming insights into strategic action. Our astute, refreshing, and challenging sessions with the Board and Executive are designed to set a clear, impactful framework for your D&I efforts. We work with you to create an approach to D&I in your organisation which is wholly specific to your goals and activities. The emerging strategies will reflect the uniqueness of your organisation. They will never just be ‘cookie cutter’- because that will never make your investment in D&I effective.
Key aspects of this stage include:
Strategic Alignment: Helping leaders set the strategic direction for D&I linked to your strategy and thus ensuring that effort and investment in D&I are impactful rather than performative.
Real Experience, Real Results: Our facilitators bring a wealth of real-world D&I experience, ensuring that your leadership is equipped with the knowledge, confidence and tools to drive effective change.
Political Astuteness: We prioritise being politically astute over being politically correct, ensuring that decisions are practical, informed, lawful and focused on outcomes.
We work with you to measure outcomes from your D&I work. Inclusion with Impact is our mantra and our extensive executive and governance experience means that we add real value, support conscious scrutiny and enhance strategic decision making and governance.
These sessions ensure that your leadership is not only committed to effective and practical D&I but also that they are articulating their approach to D&I as a driver of the goals and activities of the organisation enabling them to steer the organisation towards tangible, positive outcomes for both people and performance.
Delivery
In the Delivery phase, our skilled and experienced team steps in to navigate the complexities of implementing change. We understand that achieving systemic change requires more than just good intentions; it requires expertise, strategic planning, and a deep understanding of organisational dynamics.
Our support includes:
Evidenced-Based Decision-Making: Helping your team make informed decisions based on the insights gathered during the diagnostic phase.
Systemic Change: Ensuring that both the systems and culture of your organisation are aligned to support better outcomes.
Sustainable Impact: Working alongside your team to implement changes that lead to lasting, meaningful improvements in your organisational D&I efforts.
Developing measurements of success of your investment in D&I – where we develop indicators of impact and outcomes.
Our approach ensures that change is not only implemented but embedded within the fabric of your organisation, leading to sustainable, positive outcomes.
Why Choose Diversity Delivers?
Diversity Delivers is more than a service; it's a partnership dedicated to transforming your organisation through the power of diversity and inclusion. By engaging with us, you are choosing to prioritise genuine, impactful change over superficial solutions. Together, we will unlock the true potential of your organisation, creating a workplace where every individual feels included and empowered to contribute at their best.
Trusted by
At Leading Kind we believe that true diversity is brought by the experiences and insights, not the characteristics, that people with different backgrounds and approaches can bring to a team.
That is why Lynn Killick, Co-Founder of Leading Kind collaborated with Simon Fanshawe, OBE, Director of Diversity by Design and author of the Power of Difference to design Diversity Delivers.
Our joint aim is to provide evidence based solutions and engaging board development sessions to support leadership teams set direction with confidence, so that efforts on inclusion contribute to organisational outcomes and avoid the performative pitfalls of work of equality, diversity and inclusion.