ProSidian Consulting seeks a Practice Leader | Equity, Diversity & Inclusion who will be responsible for helping forward-thinking clients solve problems and improve operations by developing knowledge, portfolio, and reputation for developing leaders and organizations to be more equitable, diverse and inclusive. The Practice Lead | Equity, Diversity and Inclusion plays an integral role in successfully designing, planning and executing client engagements and building the firm's reputation for quality service. This includes researching, pursuing, and documenting possible business opportunities; supporting and managing our proposal development process; managing client relationships and deliverables, and developing teams while communicating with appropriate stakeholders. Practice Lead | Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion will lead and support design, development and delivery of client solutions for Management and Operations Consulting Practice.
This person will be responsible for refining a unique contribution to this work by leveraging our historical approach and building on our core strengths. The Practice Lead will also be responsible for connecting and communicating globally with other Equity, Diversity and Inclusion professionals to build a network of partners and expand our capabilities. This role will serve both our clients and our internal organization to build welcoming and inclusive cultures. The Practice Lead | Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion position will develop and execute strategically diversified consulting Business Development.
This position will identify solutions to important client challenges/opportunities, produce results for engagement team deliverables and internal firm initiatives, drive change and impact client outcomes, develop and execute quality solution focused client presentations, and enhance relationships between The Firm and the clients in the markets we serve. This position will produce results, drive change and impact client outcomes nationally/Internationally (CONUS/OCONUS) to complete a wide variety of engagements for Private Companies, Fortune 1,000 Enterprises, and Government Agencies of all sizes. As an executive of the firm, you will also provide oversight and management of Professional Consultants to insure consistent, high-quality service delivery in a cost-effective manner.
Practice Leader | Equity, Diversity & Inclusion is responsible for business development, client engagement management, thought leadership, market presence, and team-building/leadership of Management Consultants. Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to, working with other consultant practices and company business units to develop or support business opportunities. Develop, coach and lead the Consulting Practice team.
- Industry: Energy, Manufacturing, Chemical, Retail, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Hospitality, Pharmaceuticals, Banking & Financial Services, Transportation, Federal, State, & Local Government Agencies
- Manages Others: Manages a business portfolio based on strategically diversified services offered by ProSidian Consulting.
- Job Type: Executive Management Consultant, administration, business development, practice leadership
- Organization: Management Consulting
Requirements | Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead and support multidisciplinary teams who bring together the talents of engagement team professionals for services deployed across the enterprise, target drivers of economic profit (growth, margin, and efficiency), and are aligned at the intersections of assets, processes, policies and people delivering value.
- Conduct thorough needs assessment and create a vision and roadmap that fosters change, create dialog, builds excitement, and creates a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion strategies and solutions.
- Develop, benchmark, track, and analyze key metrics to measure the effectiveness of equity, diversity and inclusion efforts.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with external stakeholders and leaders within the equity, diversity and inclusion area of practice to further our efforts and become recognized and sought out for our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion expertise in the leadership arena.
- Embed equity, diversity, and inclusion into our current content, product, and service offerings where appropriate.
- Create new product and service offerings that build on the expertise and incorporate cutting-edge approaches to equity, diversity, and inclusion (e.g., neuroscience, cognitive bias, artificial intelligence, social sciences)
- Interface with key client accounts to contribute to diversity efforts within existing leadership solutions.
- Forge new relationships with key stakeholders to bring ProSidian into new diversity markets and new client organizations.
- Create alignment between our clients’ equity, diversity and inclusion goals, business strategy, and key stakeholders to ensure the robust implementation of our overall leadership development approach and equity, diversity and inclusion interventions.
- Attend various equity, diversity and inclusion conferences throughout the year to further build ProSidian’s visibility within the equity, diversity and inclusion space.
Internal Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively with other ProSidian Engagement Team Members and Project Leaders to build upon Point of View on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the marketplace that is relevant and cutting edge across all sectors and regions of the globe.
- Partner with key leaders and business units to build impactful equity, diversity and inclusion plans.
- Align our global practices and policies to ensure agreed upon equity, diversity and inclusion outcomes.
- Provide Leadership Solutions Partners and Facilitators and Societal Advancement faculty with knowledge, skills, and abilities to facilitate best in class equity, diversity and inclusion subject matter to clients.
- Provide Strategic Business Partners with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to accurately represent our point-of-view, portfolio of offerings, and expected outcomes for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion work.
- Partner with the Global Research & Evaluation team and the Commercialization and Innovation team to ensure alignment across our research and evaluation approaches, projects, and our product and service offerings.
- Collaborate as subject matter expert to Global Human Resources on sourcing, hiring, and retaining diverse candidates. Foster and develop initiatives to attract, retain, and promote a workforce with multiple levels of diversity. Ensure that Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion is core to our daily practices, values, and beliefs and is conveyed in our communication, on-boarding process, and expectations.