What Our Clients Say

‘Diversity Partners has delivered a very comprehensive and thoughtful report with succinct recommendations to guide our actions to reduce our gender pay gap and improve diversity and inclusion. We now have a clear direction on where to focus our efforts for maximum impact thanks to their considered research and consultation.’

‘It was critical that we found a partner who fitted with our culture and Diversity Partners has been the perfect partner to help us progress our gender diversity goals. They’ve undertaken rigorous research, engaged extremely positively with hundreds of our people, given us a ‘no bullsh*t’ assessment and set of recommendations to make progress. Their academic substance combined with commercial pragmatism is impressive.’

“The Australasian Railway Association (ARA) chose Diversity Partners to lead a significant research engagement on gender diversity in the rail sector. After conducting an industry-wide survey and focus groups, they produced a comprehensive report that will guide our future efforts to position rail as an employer of choice for women in partnership with industry. We really valued the partnership, and our team learnt a lot from the knowledge and expertise of Diversity Partners.”

“We really value the support of Diversity Partners, particularly how their team has taken the time to understand our business and tailored engaging and practical content for our senior leaders and store managers to lead inclusive and high performing teams.”

‘Your engagement with the D&I Working Group and members of the executive team was hugely valued and has created momentum we will carry forward as we work to accomplish our D&I goals at DMTC.’

‘Engaging an external partner provided valuable expertise, challenged our assumptions, and helped us identify opportunities and risks that we may not have seen ourselves. That external perspective has been critical in ensuring our diversity and inclusion strategy is both comprehensive and actionable.’

“Diversity Partners facilitated a highly engaging Unconscious Bias program for our Managers. The session was specifically designed to capture our industry challenges and workplace culture, and had the right balance of content and group participation.”

“Diversity Partners helped us hold a mirror up to the business, dig into our baseline data, and really listen to our people through our internal Communities, while providing a lens of best practices and a yardstick against which to measure ourselves. What that did was move
us from more reactive quick wins to a robust, five-year enterprise strategy.”

“Thank you all for your hard work and the exceptional skill in delivering our Inclusive Leadership Program this year.  It has been hugely impactful to date – sparking all the right conversations.”

“We have loved partnering with Diversity Partners over the past two years. They’ve helped us create relevant, practical and meaningful content to educate and inspire our people to lead inclusive and high performing teams.”

“The Diversity Partners team was a pleasure to work with and took the time to truly understand our business, team and customers. They helped us shine a light on all the great things we are already doing to promote diversity and belonging at Aveo, and have left us with a clear way forward to continually improve that is grounded in our organisational values.”

‘Working with Diversity Partners enabled us to get a thorough, independent, best practice perspective of our recruitment approach from a diversity and inclusion lens, including internal policy, data collection, candidate experience, recruitment marketing and more, with practical recommendations we could implement quickly.’

‘Diversity Partners has delivered a fit for purpose and practical Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy for the Victorian Ombudsman. They invested in getting to know the organisation, its work and our people, and collaboratively helped create a DEI Plan that builds on our strengths and creates a path towards building an even greater inclusive culture.’

Deakin engaged Diversity Partners to help enable the development of our new Diversity and Inclusion Strategy for the University. Katie and her team were engaged on a very tight timeline, with a clear deliverable to help us produce a strategy that aligned to our core value of Inclusion, showed meaningful alignment to our other strategic pieces of work and provided a framework for the University to view Diversity and Inclusion through. They were also able to assist us encompass years of work progressing Diversity and Inclusion at Deakin into a document that clearly articulated the way forward for the next 5 years. From the outset they understood our vision, provided strategic advice where appropriate, and worked thoughtfully and quickly to help us produce a holistic, innovative and inclusive strategy. We fully endorse Katie and the Diversity Partners team and will be looking for further opportunities to partner with them on future pieces of work.

‘Many thanks for the wonderful session. It was just what I hoped it would be – educational and practical. It also drove home some really impactful truths. Thank you for being part of the change to improve performance through a deeper understanding of psychological safety.’

“I just wanted to thank you so very much for the work you undertook and the report you provided us; you have captured our current and future states perfectly and provided a clear pathway for us to proceed. We are on an exciting journey and while it might take us a little while to get there, we are definitely committed and looking forward.”

‘The Met Coal business started its journey with Diversity Partners through the commissioning of a Diversity Diagnostic. This diagnostic assisted in identifying our key diversity challenges and provided the foundation for our current Gender Diversity Action Plan. As part of the delivery of this action plan, Diversity Partners worked closely with our Executive Leadership Team through the delivery of Inclusive Leadership sessions and the facilitation of our Diversity Council. The involvement of Diversity Partners on our journey has felt like a partnership with  shared goal – they are always interested, committed and enthusiastic about our D&I activities and their experience and expertise is highly regarded by our Executive team.’

‘Working with Katie and her team at Diversity Partners has been a real pleasure. Their professionalism, expertise and passion has contributed significantly to helping us shape our Diversity Strategy, and to ensure it builds on our values and strengths. Diversity Partners facilitated high-impact ‘Unconscious Bias’ workshops for 250 of our leaders. Self-awareness levels for these leaders has been heightened and their confidence to lead their teams with an even more inclusive mindset has increased.’

“Thank you very much for your expertise, guidance and support throughout this work. You did a great job increasing our collective level of awareness and stretching us with our I&D journey whilst also helping us to deliver an outcome that will resonate with our organisation.“

‘Cover-More engaged Diversity Partners to assist with rolling out Inclusive Behaviours training for our employees. From the initial enquiry, to working collaboratively on workshop content and the logistics of delivering to our global teams, to their engaging facilitation of the workshops, Diversity Partners has been the perfect partner for Cover-More on this project. I can’t thank the team at Diversity Partners enough for their commitment and involvement in this important project for our business.’

‘Diversity Partners has kept us focused on the key success factors for diversity progress. They have a very thorough, professional and energetic approach to everything they do – whether that’s facilitating our Diversity Council, developing strategic inputs or running ‘Inclusive Leadership’ programs for our partners.’

‘Lander & Rogers has embarked on a collaborative process with Diversity Partners to unpack diversity in its many forms and together we are building engagement, knowledge and capabilities in this area…they have been challenging our thinking and assumptions whilst taking on a ‘diversity journey’.’

‘Maddocks has made considerable progress in advancing diversity, particularly at partnership levels, and achieving a more flexible work culture. We greatly value the partnership we have with Diversity Partners, which has assisted Maddocks to institute highly effective flexibility programs and unconscious bias education for all of our partners and employees.’

‘Through their considered and thoughtful diagnostic process, Diversity Partners has highlighted the strong cultural foundation we have to build on, as well as given us a clear pathway to minimise any identified gaps in advancing our inclusive culture.

Our organisational purpose is strongly linked to serving diverse communities and by enhancing our employees’ sense of belonging and being valued for the difference they bring to work with them every day, will allow us to further enhance patient outcomes. We appreciate the practical recommendations included in our three-year Diversity & Inclusion strategy, as we now have a clear pathway to making change that is meaningful and has impact.’

‘Our leaders at Melbourne Water are much better equipped to hold conversations about flexible work arrangements, to address perceived challenges, and to implement effective work practices, as a result of the excellent workshops led by Diversity Partners. Their facilitation approach is practical, tailored, and engaging.’