Featured Vendors (October-December) - 2022

BCT Partners is a global, diverse-led consulting firm that focuses on research, training, technology, analytics, and traditional management consulting. The company develops innovative and effective solutions for a more diverse and equitable society with the aid of immersive virtual reality (VR) and precision analytics.

Corporate Playbook is a business consulting firm specializing in executive coaching and strategic solutions. As a DEI expert and consultant, Corporate Playbook equips companies with strategies to elevate diversity, inclusion, and culture. The company helps clients kick start DEI initiatives or broaden the scope of their existing DEI programs by creating specific plans that align DEI and other key company initiatives including philanthropic efforts, with their brand. Through assessment tools and interviews, Corporate Playbook first identifies clients' DEI readiness, perspective, and positioning. It then collaborates with employees to understand the perspectives of individuals and groups to align goals to drive desired outcomes.

The company helps organizations take a holistic DEI stance by offering comprehensive assessments, evaluations and training, strategic equity planning, and leadership development services. The company helps companies determine strategic DEI plans to overcome these challenges. Their equity audit aids organizations in identifying the current status and pain points of their DEI initiatives/vision. It also sheds light on employees' past experience, whether they are from the majority, minority, or fairly marginalized communities. Their team gathers as much information as possible to develop a plan with measurable implementation goals. We also create a communication plan to effectively convey the firm's DEI efforts.

Founded in 2016, Dream Forward Consulting is a Black woman-owned boutique consulting firm that specializes in people and culture and DEI consulting. The company today works with startups, government agencies, and large enterprises to help them embrace all forms of employee diversity with open arms. The company's services include everything from executive coaching and formal learning programs to psychometric assessments for leaders and decision-makers and creating a strategy around the future of inclusion, people, and culture practices in a company. They are constantly looking for innovative and excited clients who wish to go to the next level of their DEI journey.

HR Legal Search helps law firms and companies find the right talent and empowers them to actualize their diversity initiatives

Inclusive Leaders Group (ILG) is a black woman-owned talent and organizational development consulting expert specializing in DEI, and belonging strategies that align well with clients’ business imperatives. The company serves corporations, nonprofits, higher education, government, and healthcare at all stages of their DEI journey, helping improve organizational DEI performance with the current transformational change underway globally. ILG specializes in building workplaces where all employees collaborate effectively, foster a sense of belonging, develop themselves as inclusive leaders, and contribute to business goals with its unique DEI roadmap that encompasses six key steps.

Since its inception in 1983, Innovations International, Inc. has been known for its outstanding work in personal and organizational transformation. The company is a strong advocate of diversity and inclusion as essential organizational initiatives for exceptional performance. They believe that both require organizational transformation—in addition to change—for inclusion to become an embedded part of an organization’s culture. In essence, transformation is the process of creating fundamental, irreversible invalidation of underlying beliefs and attitudes, relating to human equality, that maintain discrimination and systemic exclusion.

Established in 1994, Knight Agency has been leveraging marketing, communications, and engagement to connect people in ways that propel organizations forward. Today, with a dedicated organizational transformation team, the consultancy drives performance through diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, company purpose and culture, talent management, digital education, and learner engagement. Knight Agency builds brands from the inside-out—as they believe that without a strong, positive, and rewarding employee experience, consumer promises can't be fulfilled. This is why the consultancy's approach always begins with listening sessions, both with the organization's decision-makers and employees at all levels.

Leading NOW takes a research-based approach to formulate a wide array of DEI solutions to help organizations meet their inclusive talent and culture goals. With a consultative and adaptive approach, the company offers diversity and inclusion strategies, solutions and programs, leadership solutions and programs, coaching, assessments, talent development programs, and corporate policy formulation. They have been delivering research-based, inclusive leadership solutions for nearly 20 years. Their two distinct research institutes, The Center for Diversity & Inclusion and The Gender Dynamics Institute, uncover the core problems workplaces face today. This proprietary research powers our Leading Forward and Leading Women solutions, which focus on inclusive leadership development and gender-balanced leadership, respectively.

Back in 2006, Sapna Welsh started Leverage HR as a regional firm focused on acceleratingorganizational leadership and employee development effortsby focusing on diversity. Over the years,the Firm has liaised with various business partners and consultants to deliver solutions for a changing landscape of clients and needs. Today, Leverage HR is widely recognized as a leading provider of custom Leadership Development& Coaching, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), and Organizational Effectiveness consulting.