A successful DEI journey demands that you know where you’re starting from. Elevated Diversity strategists conduct a diligent assessment of your culture, reviewing the landscape and benchmarking it against your peers. This effort sets the foundation for your journey by identifying where you most need to improve in supporting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. You’ll gain clarity on your greatest opportunities for growth and engagement.

To achieve greater diversity, equity, and inclusion, you need a sound strategy and plan that aligns with your organization’s business goals and objectives. With your assessment as our guide, the Elevated Diversity team develops a strategic plan that clearly defines your path forward and aligns with your goals. Customized to your business, this plan provides a roadmap designed to meet you where you are today and take you where you need to be tomorrow.

A workforce that’s more engaged and more committed to an environment where everyone feels they belong will naturally be more productive. Elevated Diversity helps you boost employee engagement through meaningful experiences and other initiatives tailored to your goals. These can include DEI councils that enable your team to lead, participate in, and track your efforts to improve diversity and inclusion; mentoring and sponsorship programs that support aspiring leaders across your entire workforce; and employee resource groups that give everyone from every background the chance to be heard.

To attract and retain talent with a rich diversity of backgrounds and perspectives, you need inclusive and equitable recruitment and retention strategies. Elevated Diversity supports you from end to end—crafting inclusive job listings, optimizing recruitment channels, empowering more equitable candidate selection through more effective questions and scoring models, and ensuring your onboarding provides an inclusive experience. We also help you build out a more diverse talent pipeline through robust leadership development programs.

To help you sustain the gains you’ve achieved for long-term impact, we work with you to establish awareness of your DEI advocacy efforts, both internally and externally. Our communication experts develop and implement communication strategies designed to convey your DEI commitment and activities, effectively and transparently. We also create opportunities for greater connections, foster more inclusive collaboration, and help ensure your efforts are tied to key performance metrics that ensure accountability and sustainability.