HireCultures

According to a study by McKinsey & Company, businesses with diverse staff perform better than those with a more homogeneous workforce. This holds in the current business landscape where companies that are employee-focused instead of product or service-driven are excelling at meeting their organizational milestones. In light of this, the significance of diversity in the workplace is skyrocketing, evolving from its early days as a nominal legal requirement to become crucial in driving business success. Diversity is also vital because it helps firms cope with the shift in workplace preferences and needs caused by the influx of millennial and Gen Z employees who have markedly different demands compared to their baby boomer counterparts.

Assisting organizations with their workforce diversification needs and enabling a work environment transformation that makes all employees feel valued and included is HireCultures. “Our goal is to help companies become more people-focused because employee experience is the key to driving retention and productivity within an organization,” says Chandria Harris, Founder and CEO of HireCultures. The firm is a professional development consultancy specializing in the social science of human behavior and performance and offers services such as executive coaching, recruitment, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training.

The company’s DEI training comprises comprehensive workshops that involves educating C-Suite teams, departments, and people to boost creativity and cultivate meaningful relationships. The workshop guides the client in building a safe and effective work environment for all team members to accelerate success. It can also be customized based on specific needs to explore cultural diversity lenses and enhance the impact of people transformation initiatives.

Through a myriad of professional training and development options, led personally by Harris, it encompasses the delivery of skills that can aid teams in growing their work environment through diversity education and career development. For instance, one of the workshops offered by HireCultures, “Defining a Workplace for All,” assists clients in fostering an inclusive culture by delivering training sessions over four weeks to twelve months – depending on the program’s intensity, customized by the company.

Our goal is to help companies become more people-focused because employee experience is the key to driving retention and productivity within an organization

The program also includes an employee roundtable where staff can discuss any issues with HireCultures. HireCultures localizes its DEI methods and recommendations to the client’s hiring needs and current location to offer the best methods that retain and attract talent.

Concurrently, the firm’s executive board searching service helps publicly-traded companies identify professionals of color with expertise and functional experience to join their C-suite. Harris spearheads this by consulting senior leadership teams and developing strategies to support employees in achieving change in a diverse environment. Her bespoke leadership development training offers immersive experiences to C-suite leaders on how to become more inclusive in their decision-making and employee initiatives.

Since its inception in 2016, HireCultures has helped many businesses increase their diversity hiring by 40 percent within six months of engagement. This success can be attributed to Harris and her expertise as an award-winning global career development consultant and speaker who helps HireCultures develop transformative plans that allow sustainable changes. The firm’s distinctiveness is evident in its foundation in social science and multicultural approach, which fosters management competencies that contribute to long-lasting transformation. HireCultures is poised to modify businesses and help them implement the best practices for cultural alignment to transform their workplace culture into a highly inclusive, creative, and collaborative work environment where all employees can flourish.