Making D,E & I one of your founding habits will support with your businesses future success. Here are some free ideas to help you foster diversity within your start-up:

Culture & Values: You have the opportunity to make a commitment to diversity & inclusion from the outset. Reflect this in your mission statement, company values and materials, ensure this is then integrated within your company culture.

Unbiased Job Adverts: Writing inclusive & gender neutral adverts & content is crucial. Gender Decoder is a free tool to check your content for biased language.

Hiring Team: Ensure that your hiring team is diverse, differing perspectives can help identify & eliminate bias. Ask your recruitment partner to send blind resumes. Create an interview panel committed to creating an inclusive working environment.

Talent Pools: Look at your current recruitment channels and consider, are you looking in the right places to hire diverse talent? Work with a partner who can reach a broader audience, attend events, access diverse communities on your businesses behalf. We work with our clients to set specific metrics related to D,E & I. We regularly assess and measure the progress and utilise this data driven approach to identify areas for improvement.

Fostering diversity is going to be an ongoing process for your business that requires commitment throughout the organisation. By prioritising diversity from the beginning you are building a more innovative, creative & successful startup!