DEI Consulting

Looking for a DEI Consultant & Strategist to fearlessly empower your team or organizations to maximize their full potential, impact, and results? Looking for customized solutions focused on building internal capability and enabling the development and sustainability of an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive? Not looking for a long-term commitment, but a trusted expert in your corner to help jump start or implement key initiatives and navigate DEI best practices?

If you answered yes to these questions, let’s get to work!

WHAT YOU’LL GET:

  • Get clear on what you want to achieve for inclusive and equitable business practices.

  • Set goals to fit your vision (we’ll create the focus needed to set measurable objectives)

  • Begin framing action plan and identify the metrics to measure and what tools to help (what gets measured gets done)

  • Create accountability to keep the team on track.

Program Execution Areas:

  • Inclusive hiring resources and roadmaps

  • Employee lifecycle process reviews and improvement

  • Employee engagement surveys

  • Optimizing employee resource and affinity groups

  • Equity program development and implementation e.g. Hi-po, leadership accelerators, and sponsorship programs

  • Analytics, benchmarking, and setting DEI targets

  • “Danni came highly recommended. The problem we had is that we had never launched a program like the DEI Initiative before. Her passion and drive for real DEI, plus her experience as a DEI practitioner at Coursera was an excellent fit (and God-send). I really appreciate her 'not all sizes fits most' approach. Meaning, for every event and/or content Danni has helped us deliver, she always challenges me to think outside the box or beyond what is on the surface. Whereas, some providers have a cookie cutter approach. It was truly a pleasure working with her! P.S. when are you taking new clients?”

    LaCheka Phillips, the DEI Initiative

  • “Dr. Buie's approach is experience and impact based. She's been there and done the work and knows what challenges and opportunities lie within the work. Additionally, her experience in both public and fast growing tech companies gives her a perspective that fits most companies' stages of growth. Danni’s the best!”

    Denise Umubyeyi, Five to Nine

Previous Clients

 FAQs

  • I partner directly with my clients to help them better understand their people, systems, and behaviors that contribute to their cultures and help them work towards a more diverse, equitable and inclusive version of themselves.

    I typically focus my engagements on:

    » Conducting and driving culture assessments. Partner with clients to conduct assessments of organizations’ cultures, policies, processes, and strategy.

    » Designing engagements and developing DEI strategies. Assist in designing and tailoring engagements and strategic plans in response to assessment findings in collaboration with clients.

    » Advising on people processes and policies. Consult with clients and internally on issues related to hiring, performance management, promotion, and other people processes and DEI best practices.

  • I work with high-impact and mission-based organizations across sectors to create and implement innovative approaches for building culture at scale. My recurring clients are smaller companies or tech startups with less than 1,000 employees.

  • In short, no. Often organizations emphasize the importance of DEI training and make significant investments to train employees, however there isn't much emphasis on capacity building following DEI training which limits their ability to drive and sustain inclusive behavioral change. There are many out-of-the-box training programs and content that already exist, therefore I focus more on DEI strategy acceleration by helping you to dig deep, find concrete solutions, build a step by step plan, and identify the tools that will keep you motivated for implementation.

    If requested, I can recommend some platforms and vendors for your DEI training and facilitation needs.