Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Despite a common belief, every organization’s DEI challenges are unique. Leveraging others’ best practices will only get you part of the way. Follow the science to drive true culture transformation at scale.

Align your business goals with Diversity & Inclusion goals
Ensure that both leaders and employees know what the benefits are for themselves and how it grows the organization.
Drive for shifting habits, not increasing awareness
Awareness is an important step, but without habit activation and formation there will be no measurable behavior change.
Create specific measurement and accountability
Identify the correct metrics to monitor progress over time, and integrate them into your talent management processes to drive accountability.
D&I Transformation Journey

Mobilize Leaders

Build Strategies

Activate Habits

Reimagine Systems
Mobilize Leaders
The role of leadership is a critical component in driving organizational culture change. Their actions and language role model accepted behaviors and have broad influence on employee engagement and performance. NLI partners with organizations incorporating leader involvement from the very beginning of the process, ensuring leaders are aligned on the mission, vision, and direction of an initiative.
Briefings
Get leadership buy in by anchoring on the science and reinforcing a business case for D&I. Executive briefings D&I research briefings
Working sessions
Partner with NLI’s top consultants to solve your biggest D&I challenges. 1:1 working sessions Executive team working sessions Coaching
Listening circles
Facilitate insight-rich dialogue with employees to better understand their experience. Listening circles Town Halls Employee Engagement Surveys
to mobilize leaders
Build Impactful Strategies Through Consulting
NLI engages in a collaborative consulting process to ensure synergies with our clients’ culture. We deploy consultants and scientists to understand current realities of the organization and generate insights from employee data. Leveraging our proprietary culture transformation model Priorities, Habits, and Systems™ (PHS), we offer clear guidelines for how to create initiatives that leave a lasting impact and result in true transformation at scale.
Diagnostics
Generate meaningful insights from your qualitative and quantitative data to provide deep diagnostics of your current reality.
D&I Maturity Diagnostics Talent Management Systems Diagnostics
Tactical measures
Put systems, processes, and programs in place in order to support and sustain your D&I goals.
Creating or Optimizing ERGs, BRGs
and Diversity Councils
Partnering with HRBPs
Allyship Programs
Ambassador Programs
Measurement Blueprints
Strategy
Develop and implement a strategic plan to achieve specific D&I-related goals bridging the gap between current and desired future states.
D&I Strategy 0 to 5 D&I Measurement Strategy Enterprise D&I Learning Strategy
to build Strategies
Change Behaviors and Activate Habits
NLI focuses on behavior change at scale with a focus on the science of habit formation at the core of our learning solutions. When it comes to D&I, we identified a number of critical groups of habits to enable true change. NLI offers a suite of solutions that address each of these habit groupings that best fit organizational needs.
to activate habits
Reimagine Talent Management Systems
Systems support an organization's desired behavior change by reinforcing the essential habits. Without the right programs and processes supporting them, these habits will not get formed and quite simply, the behavior change doesn’t happen. NLI partners with organizations to carefully assess talent management systems through the lens of brain science. This evaluation pinpoints and suggests potential improvements that allow organizational priorities and habits to be reinforced.
Talent Acquisition
Performance Management
Learning & Development
Workforce Planning
to reimagine systems