Your Tech Business Can’t Compete Without a
Diverse, Inclusive Workplace
Let’s Embark on your DEI Journey Together.
Technology companies focus on developing solutions that anticipate and solve the evolving needs of your customers. These customers represent a diverse base of users with different experiences, opinions, and backgrounds. To successfully meet this challenge, you must hire workforces that reflect the unique needs of each customer segment or risk becoming irrelevant to them.
Equitable hiring drives tangible benefits according to a BCG Study report noting significant correlation between innovation and diverse management teams. In fact, the report found “companies that reported above-average management diversity reported innovation revenue 19% higher than companies with below-average leadership diversity – 45% of total revenue versus just 26%.” Yet, some of the most respected tech companies have faced high-profile allegations of systemic racism.
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Elevated Diversity is Uniquely Qualified to Solve Tech’s DEI Challenges.
The Elevated Diversity team understands the obstacles tech companies face in their quest to create a diverse, inclusive culture—from unintended barriers to advancement to old-line recruiting approaches that fail to attract a varied candidate pool, job descriptions that unknowingly exclude certain groups. Then there are the power structures which result in workplace dynamics that aren’t gender inclusive.
We’re uniquely equipped to address those challenges head-on by embedding the tenets of diversity, equity, and inclusion into the very DNA of your culture.
Our experienced strategists employ proven best practices and apply their deep subject matter expertise to:
Lead your technology company along your unique DEI path—meeting you wherever you are today and helping you get where you need to be tomorrow
Partner with you to build and sustain a culture that provides every employee with the support and the psychological safety to do their best work
Enable you to realize all the bottom-line benefits of a diverse, inclusive culture—from bringing more innovative technology products and services to market, to fostering greater collaboration and operating more productively
75%
percentage of technology jobs held by men
(VentureBeat)
24%
percentage of women and underrepresented ethnic groups in tech companies that report feeling a sense of belonging
(Capgemini research)
19%
decline in job listings for DEI roles in 2022 (Bloomberg)
Our Proven Processes Generate DEI Results.
Like you, we recognize the value of using proven processes to drive stronger results. Our proprietary SPHERE of Connectivity framework not only helps create and sustain a culture that’s more diverse, equitable, and inclusive; it also allows you to do this important work in sprints and phases, taking an iterative approach that keeps your progressing toward your goals.
Our DEI strategists will leverage this proven framework, together with their tech industry experience, to help your organization:
Recognize the tangible value of a more diverse, inclusive workforce—for your employees, customers, and suppliers, and for your company’s bottom line
Understand how to deliver technology products and services that solve the unique needs of your entire customer base
Adopt intentional approaches and processes that attract and retain more diverse talent, building a workforce that’s more inspired, engaged, and productive
Drive organizational transformation towards a more equitable workplace that’s embedded and sustainable, so you can out-innovate and outperform your competition
Explore Our Technology DEI Solutions.
We recognize that every technology company is at a different place in their DEI journey. But most leverage our full scope of solutions, employing a 360-degree approach to embedding DEI principles into every aspect of the business. That approach typically involves initiatives like these.
Conducting assessments on your culture and organizational readiness for change, then benchmarking against your peers within and outside technology
Establishing the company’s mission, vision, and values, ensuring the DEI strategy can take hold and thrive
Defining your path forward by developing a strategic plan for your DEI initiatives, aligned with your business goals
Positioning your tech company to sustain an equitable, inclusive culture long term, through improved communication strategies, connection, and collaboration
Reviewing HR practices, policies, and procedures, to eliminate unintentional bias and exclusion
Strengthening your leadership team through recruitment, development and retention strategies that create and sustain greater diversity at the top
Attracting a more diverse candidate pool across all levels by rethinking your traditional recruitment channels and processes
Equipping your team with the tools to select candidates more equitably, including more effective interview questions and candidate scoring models
Helping your hiring managers avoid the tendency to equate “good fit” with selecting employees who look like them or have similar backgrounds
Creating a more inclusive onboarding experience by developing processes, policies, and procedures that set up every new hire for success
Building shared knowledge, understanding, and language through a wide range of educational and training opportunities on DEI subjects
Leveraging the power of mentoring and sponsorship programs, DEI councils, and employee resource groups (ERGs) to build a more engaged workforce
Elevated Diversity Knows the Technology Industry.
Our DEI strategists have worked with startup and mature businesses in software and technology, helping develop and sustain a culture that leverages diverse talent and perspectives and fosters inclusiveness. We understand the unique dynamics of the technology field and the challenges that are common to tech companies as they strive to build a culture that embraces the principles of DEI.
Our experienced team boasts:
- A Certified Trainer for Radical Inclusion™ (The Winters Group)
- A Columbia University adjunct professor
- Specialists who’ve completed the Prosci Change Management Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Program (World Diversity Leadership Institute)
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