DEI Audit and Culture Diagnostics
Our DEI audit and culture diagnostic work produces insights that help organisations understand how diversity, equity and inclusion are experienced in practice.
Understand your cultural reality, employee engagement, develop a clear DEI roadmap, and build the structures that embed diversity and inclusion at work every day.
How It Works
Agree scope
Proportionate focus and based on your priorities, risk profile, lived experience, and organisational context. This keeps the diagnostic targeted and time bound.
Establish a clear baseline
A targeted, survey-based diagnostic offers a snapshot of the current culture. This provides baseline insight into leadership experience, management practice, lived experience, and employee engagement, highlighting patterns across seniority, role and function.
Deepen understanding
Survey findings are explored in more depth through structured focus groups and interviews. This helps explain why patterns exist, how issues are experienced on the ground, and where informal practice diverges from formal process.
Review policies, processes, and practice
Where relevant, we review key policies, decision-making processes, and escalation routes to assess how they operate in practice. This uncovers gaps between intention and experience.
Analyse risk and pressure points
Where inconsistency, informal practice or gaps in process are creating risk, or are likely to escalate if left unaddressed.
Receive clear, prioritised outputs
A concise, decision-ready summary, highlighting what’s already strong, what needs attention now, and medium- and longer-term actions, along with practical, proportionate recommendations.
Other Services
Micro Diagnostics
Not every question requires a full diagnostic.
Micro-diagnostics provide fast, focused insight into specific areas of risk or concern, allowing organisations to act early and proportionately without over-investing.
Micro-diagnostics may explore:
- Leadership & management perspectives
- Trust, psychological safety & confidence to speak up
- Inclusion & fairness in every decisions
- Conduct, behaviour & boundary-related concerns
- Alignment between values & lived culture
- Post-incident or post-change check-in to assess impact
Strategic DEI Roadmap
A clear, practical DEI strategy.
We work with you to understand your present state, set a clear direction, align responsibilities and drive real behavioural and cultural shifts that last.
Your roadmap may cover:
- Priority focus areas grounded in data
- Behavioural objectives & culture goals
- Leadership responsibilities
- Fair decision-making processes
- ERG structure & governance
- Measures of progress & long-term outcomes
DEI Audit
Turning strategy into practice.
Our audit approach examines the structures underneath culture, including policies, practices, and systems, to drive small shifts that often unlock major benefits.
This can include:
- Inclusive recruitment & progression processes
- Accessibility & neuro-inclusion approaches
- Onboarding & induction redesign
- Reporting processes & sexual harassment prevention
- Review of performance & promotion systems
- Communication norms & decision-making structures
Network Activation
Sustainable support that empowers.
Activating successful networks, Employee Resource Groups, and champions, to create meaningful impact without overwhelming the people doing the work.
Support may include:
- Role clarity and focus
- Purpose & governance
- Activation planning
- Setting realistic scope and boundaries
- Tools and templates to sustain success
- Advocacy & connection to leadership
Frequently Asked Questions
Where do we start?
Most organisations begin with a diagnostic or listening exercise to understand their baseline.
Is this suitable for organisations just beginning their DEI journey?
Yes. The process is supportive, non-judgemental, and tailored to your pace. Learn more about how I work.
Can you work with senior leaders?
Absolutely. Leadership alignment is often the highest-value part of the process. It can be supplemented with complementary one-to-one support or training. Learn more about our leadership coaching and counselling or take a look at our management and leadership training.
Do you provide a written strategy?
Yes. You receive a clear, practical roadmap with priorities, behaviours, and measures.
Can we combine consulting with training?
Yes. Many organisations blend diagnostics, strategy, and team training for deeper impact. Learn more about our inclusion, neurodiversity and culture training.
How long does the process take?
From a short diagnostic to long-term culture programmes, everything is tailored to your needs.