Diversity, equity, and inclusion serve as bedrock values for many organizations. They also drive value creation when embedded as part of a core business strategy. Our diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting team helps clients build the equitable and inclusive businesses of the future.
Organizations often focus their diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts on the employee experience alone. However, these values can also drive long-term, sustainable advantage by improving the customer journey, product development, innovation agenda, and supply chain. BCG’s proven approach to DEI in business can help organizations build inclusive business models to enhance their talent profile, community impact, and business performance.
Supplier Diversity
We work closely with clients to create meaningful opportunities for suppliers. We also support their success through supplier diversity programs.
Gender Equality
Our gender-equality consultants help create programs that advance careers and improve engagement for women at all levels of an organization.
Inclusive Product Design
We help companies actively integrate equitable thinking into product design and create inclusive products that appeal to customers and communities that have often been overlooked.
Racial Equity
Our DEI consultants collaborate with clients to assess racial equity efforts and drive change through innovative initiatives, strategic partnerships, and engagement opportunities.
Related Services: Social Impact, Culture and Change Management, Climate Change and Sustainability
BCG helps organizations rethink and broaden their DEI strategy from a “do good” requirement to a lever for creating lasting competitive advantage, business opportunity, and societal change.
Grundfos, the largest pump manufacturer in the world, has valued diversity in the workplace for decades; today, it is ramping up its DEI efforts, with a focus on gender diversity in manufacturing, LGBTQ+ inclusion, mentoring programs, and more.
BCG engaged with Grameen America, a microloan provider and CDFI, to enhance access to capital for low-income Black female entrepreneurs across the US. In less than a year, the organization disbursed $2.1 million in loans to hundreds of Black women entrepreneurs.
Building a Strategy to Support People with Disabilities. We partnered with a Middle Eastern government to develop a holistic strategy for supporting its residents with disabilities. Grounded in global best practices, the strategy will help improve outcomes in health, education, employment, social care, access, and public life.
Accelerating Supplier Diversity. We helped a global technology company accelerate its supplier diversity program, which is set to increase diversity spending by a factor of five.
Designing for Product Equity. We helped a health care provider design a virtual-first model of care that engaged underinvested patients and assessed digital equity on an annual basis.
Leveraging Data to Drive Diversity and Inclusion Innovation. We partnered with a Latin American telco company to analyze and leverage quantitative and qualitative data for innovation hackathons. Through these hackathons, the organization was able to design a diversity and inclusion intervention that truly elevated its DEI strategy.
Creating a More Diverse and Inclusive Workforce. We helped a Middle Eastern oil and gas company analyze recruiting data to uncover DEI gaps in the talent pipeline. Through the analysis, the company was able to shape new DEI policies and programs for building a more diverse workforce.
Enabling a Socially Transformative Business. We partnered with a global biopharmaceutical company to help make all its current and future patent-protected medicines and vaccines in the US or EU available on a not-for-profit basis to 45 lower-income countries. Leveraging BCG's expertise in portfolio development, regulatory pathways, supply chain platforms, and education for health care practitioners, the company launched an access program that will bring life-saving drugs and vaccines to 1.2 billion people.
Our center is committed to driving measurable change for various racial, ethnic, and cultural groups. We help companies reimagine their business strategy and build inclusive business models in a way that eliminates systemic bias, sparks broader social change, and creates competitive advantage.
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