Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) consultancy services

Turning your ambitions into meaningful, measurable and sustainable action

Building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, supported and able to contribute their best can feel daunting without the right support. 

That’s why we’ve built a suite of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) consultancy services - to tackle those practical challenges head-on so you can make your DEI vision a reality.

What is DEI consultancy? At Womble Bond Dickinson, it’s all about drawing on our in-house expertise to help you understand your current performance, identify any issues that may be slowing you down, improve your internal capabilities, and understand where your future priorities should be.

In practice, this means clients regularly come to us for help with things like DEI strategy development, policy reviews, inclusion audits, and diversity data analysis – ensuring you can create an inclusive workplace in which DEI is more than just a standalone initiative.

How we'll work together

Whether you’re an organisation just getting started or ready to accelerate your DEI strategy, our approach is the same: you can rely on us to get to know your business, in order to truly understand your needs.

Our team of DEI specialists will tailor their support to suit your unique circumstances, whether that’s leadership development, or learning experiences for your workforce to explore questions such as: 

Why is diversity, equity and inclusion so important? or 

How do you measure DEI progress? 

Our employee engagement programmes support long lasting culture change and everything we do is data-informed and backed up by measurement and reporting to ensure impact. 

Collaborative to our core, you’ll benefit from an enormous amount of on-the-ground experience and the very best of our expertise. What’s more, our team will also guide you in setting impactful DEI initiatives that will deliver measurable progress and clear outcomes. Most importantly, we recognise that people are at the heart of inclusion and our solutions reflect that.

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Explore our areas of specialism:

Strategy and action planning
Training and capability building
Data, insights and measurement
Culture and behaviour change

Working with leadership teams to design, review and strengthen their DEI strategy, ensuring they are evidence-based and align with organisational goals. This includes undertaking:

  • Maturity assessments and inclusion audits
  • DEI strategy development and action planning
  • Policy reviews and inclusion frameworks
  • Executive coaching on inclusive leadership.

Providing learning experiences that are practical, research‑informed and focused on real‑world application. Example programmes include:

  • Inclusive leadership
  • Race equity and anti‑racism
  • Unconscious bias
  • Allyship and active bystander skills
  • Microaggressions
  • Neurodiversity and neuroinclusion.

Helping organisations understand their current position (e.g. workforce composition, areas of underrepresentation) and where they need to go, using:

  • DEI diagnostics and surveys
  • Employee listening and focus groups
  • Workforce data analysis and reporting
  • Goal setting and measurement frameworks
  • Holistic assessments of your people practices to identify barriers, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.

DEI progress requires a shift in systems and behaviours. We can deliver and support:

  • Culture change programmes
  • Employee resource group (ERG) empowerment
  • Communications and narrative shaping
  • Change management for inclusion initiatives.

Your DEI consultancy team

You'll have access to DEI experts, working across a wide range of sectors and organisations, providing evidence-informed, practical solutions – rather than relying on jargon or tick-box exercises. Our support is tailored to your organisation's culture, goals and challenges, with confidential, trusted guidance delivered by experienced DEI practitioners.

If you're ready to build a more inclusive, equitable organisation, we’re here to help.