Once little more than a buzzword, diversity is a 21st century business priority — a driver for revenue and a means of creating the dynamic, adaptable workforce a global economy demands. And because our work is focused at the most senior levels, we understand that in order to leverage diversity, companies must diversify the top tier of management.
We believe that heterogeneous groups make better decisions and the consultants in our Diversity Practice have the breadth of background, experience and outlook required to engage a diverse candidate pool.
We treat diversity assignments with the same level of professionalism, discretion and long-term vision that characterizes all of our work. We identify diversity candidates through detailed research into organizational structures and executive backgrounds. To date, we have identified more than 11,000 senior-level executives and have access to over 15,000 diversity executives in our database. We also track the career progression of high-potential diversity candidates in Fortune 1000 companies.
We help clients determine their diversity needs and can provide an objective assessment of a company's ability to attract and hire diverse candidates through our proprietary Diversity Recruiting Quotient™ tool. This rates a company's ability to recruit diversity candidates based on factors such as internal communications, corporate culture and executive appraisal processes.
For every search we bring together the best possible team in terms of industry expertise, functional knowledge, diversity experience and location. We assemble a diverse pool of candidates, matching specific criteria such as functional background or language capability to the requirements of the role.
Our Diversity Practice operates globally — several of our US clients ask us to share our perspectives on diversity with their international colleagues. Nevertheless, we are acutely aware that definitions and requirements for diversity differ from region to region.
In addition to executive search, we are involved in global discussions on diversity. We sponsor London Business School's Sloan Fellowship Women's Scholarship, which aims to increase the number of women on the prestigious Sloan leadership programme and attracts diverse candidates from around the world.
The Spencer Stuart Roundtable offers chief diversity officers of leading organizations the opportunity to discuss issues of common concern. Our diversity practice members are active in associations which focus on providing diversity solutions to leading organizations.
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Practice Leader
Virginia Clarke, Global Leader