Strategies for Developing Diverse Professional Services Partnerships

Our new course Strategies for Developing Diverse Professional Services Partnerships is offered by The University of Chicago’s Office of Business Diversity and presented by its Business Diversity Institute. This one-day course delivers practical solutions to build impactful and sustainable business and supplier diversity programs, focusing on strategies to expand professional services with minority and women-owned businesses. Working with minority and women-owned businesses grants your organization the opportunity to access a richer pool of talent that is overflowing with new ways of thinking, helping drive innovation, creativity, and growth, according to research on diversity within the workplace.

• Course Date: August 24, 2023
• Course Format: In-Person (8 AM - 5 PM, CST )
• Cost: $3,000 (Tuition support may be available. Please to learn more.)

Through hands-on activities like role-playing, decision-mapping, and strategy development, participants will gain the tools to implement a sustainable, diverse business model within their institution’s procurement or supply chain management division. You will learn to set procurement goals for MWBE’s, how business diversity interacts with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) priorities, and how to facilitate contracting opportunities for MWBEs in sectors like financial services, asset management, and information technology.

• Explain best practices around identifying, hiring, and retaining diverse businesses
• Describe how establishing a business diversity program within their organization could reinforce its efforts to grow the brand, further its mission, and accomplish key objectives
• Develop a top-down strategy to integrate hiring diverse businesses into their vendor selection and procurement processes
• Identify performance indicators to monitor progress and measure success
• Utilize a custom playbook of impactful business diversity strategies, including real-world case studies and a glossary of key terms from relevant sectors.

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