A diversity diagnostic review allows you to target a discrete or standalone area of your business to enhance inclusive working practices. Our informed review will blend hard data with feedback from your staff on their experiences at work.

Our focus will be on diagnosing the root cause of specific issues or challenges, and then providing you with practical steps that can be taken right away. A diagnostic may be a discrete piece of work to fix an immediate issue or the first step toward a more comprehensive diversity and inclusion audit.


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Inclusivity = Better Performance

The most inclusive companies outperformed the least by 36% in profitability terms

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67% of job seekers say a diverse workforce is a key factor when weighing up companies and job offers

Data collection and analysis for evidence-based action-planning

Our specialist team will undertake:

  • Desk-based review of the chosen system or processes
  • Analysis of existing data to draw out insights and determine barriers to progress
  • Qualitative conversations to understand how policies & processes influence staff experience
  • Reporting with specific recommendations

A diagnostic review can focus on any function or workstream within your organisation. Typically this could be pay gap analysis, recruitment practices, talent management, or staff survey data. All diagnostics will include a report and action plan.

We can also help you to update or rewrite your staff handbook through a DEI lens or analyse your internal and external communications.

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Which of our diversity diagnostic services is right for your business?

All our diversity audits, analysis and diagnostic work includes practical advice for the next steps, from low-cost quick wins for the short term to longer-term strategic priorities. Together, our suggestions will empower you to:

  • Clarify your business priorities around DEI
  • Engage more effectively with your staff
  • Keep your internal and external communications on point
  • Position your organisation as a DEI-first employer and service provider
  • Set out (and stick to) key objectives, timescales and milestones
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What our clients say

It’s been fantastic working so closely with the Team, and to experience their passionate commitment to this agenda. Mercedes F1 have taken the lead, and shown a deep, and heartfelt commitment to leveraging the benefits of diversity and an inclusive culture. We look forward to working with them to continue to drive real and measurable changes over the next 5 years.

Jane Farrell
Founder at
The EW Group

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Standalone audit & diagnostic services

We offer a range of in-depth stand-alone services that can be added to your diversity diagnostic or integrated into a full diversity & inclusion audit.

Diversity Policy Review

A full suite of inclusion-first company policies is a strong baseline from which to build a culture of equity and belonging.

Inclusive Recruitment Review

Take proactive steps to make every stage in the recruitment process equal for all, irrespective of gender, age, disability, and so on.

Equality Impact Assessment

A valuable tool for assessing how public service providers and private companies can best serve every member of society.

Ethnicity Pay Gap

Gain momentum in the eyes of employees as you address any ethnicity pay gap in your organisation.

Gender Pay Gap Analysis

Analyse your gender pay gap, report more effectively and respond to the insights that fuel meaningful progress.

Review Internal Communications

Analyse your internal communications through a DEI lens, update staff handbook or implement a staff survey

Diversity Diagnostics FAQs

What’s the difference between diversity audits and diversity diagnostics?

A diversity audit is a comprehensive review of a company’s existing diversity and inclusion processes, procedures and culture, using a tailored framework to provide insight into the organisation’s successes and challenges. The audit provides a fuller view of a company’s DEI landscape and provides practical suggestions for how it can progress.

In contrast, a diversity diagnostic will address challenges associated with a specific operation in the workstream. Diagnostics combine data analysis with qualitative accounts of staff experiences to produce a clear report of the issues and challenges, and how to fix them.

Which workplace issues can diversity diagnostics help with?

Diversity diagnostics can be applied to a range of workplace functions, such as recruitment, talent management or promotional decisions. For example, if a barrier to best practice diversity and inclusion has been identified in the interviewing process, diversity diagnostics can use in-depth data analysis and experiential employee accounts to ascertain what can be done to address the problem.

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