RESOURCES 

 

D&I Focused Vendors

A thoughtfully designed and executed diversity, equity and inclusion strategy can improve culture and ultimately contribute to successful talent management, growth, and competitiveness. Executing this work well requires leadership commitment and full support, collaboration and participation on the part of all stakeholders. 

It also requires the right partnerships.  Below you will find a select list of resources, vendors and organizations seeking to address a host of solutions in the evolving world of work from unconscious bias in recruitment, talent pipelines and performance management to building inclusive cultures. I haven’t worked with all of them but have found their work to be of interest in my own learning journey.

  1. Talent discovery, analytics and access to established networks of historically underrepresented candidates: Fetcher, Equals True, Gem, Fairygodboss, include.io, HIVE Diversity, InHerSight, Interviewing.io, Joonko, Jopwell, PowerToFly, Entelo, Headstart, and Yello.

  2. Recruitment software aimed at reducing bias in full life-cycle hiring process: Knockri, Blendoor, Lever, GapJumpers, HireVue, Greenhouse, Talenya,  Checkr,  Onesource, Tap Recruit, Textio, Eightfold AI, Harver, Fortay, Plum

  3. Performance software companies with a lens on diversity: Reflektive, Culture Amp, Lattice, BambooHR, Zoho, Engagedly, TrakStar, 15five, CakeHR, PiiQ by Cornerstone, Nameley

  4. Analytical platforms and solutions: Pipeline Equity, Gender Fair, RacialBiasAlert, Humu

  5. Consulting, research and coaching services: Bravely, Paradigm, Frame Shift Consulting, Vision Awaken, Cook Ross, HollaBack, HereWe, Perception Institute, The Management Center, Collective DEI Lab, Ready Set, Performance Paradigm, Raben Group, Candour Global, Jennifer Brown Consulting, Vaya Consulting, Bhasin Consulting, LAinclusionista, Hadley-Reynolds

 

Recommended Reading

There are many newsletters and books on these topics and the best entry point depends in part on your own experiences, but a few go a long way. 

  1. Newsletters: raceAhead, HR Brew, CharterWorks

  2. To improve your knowledge and ability to engage in racial dialogue, I suggest Ijeoma Oluo’s So You Want to Talk About Race. 

  3. To better understand the experience of women of color in the workplace in particular, see Minda Harts’s The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at The Table. For a history of the gay and lesbian civil rights movement, read Lillian Faderma’s The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle. 

  4. For an exploration of our social structure as a caste system, read Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of our Discontent. 

  5. And to learn about the history of the United States from the perspective of Indigenous people, take up Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s’s An Indigeneous People’s History of the United States. 

  6. In Our Separate Ways, by authors Ella Bell and Stella Nkomo, you will find candid discussions about stereotypes, learn how black women's early experiences affect their attitudes in the business world, become aware of how white women have--perhaps unwittingly--aligned themselves more often with white men than with black women, and see ways that our country continues to come to terms with diversity in all of its dimensions.