Our Areas of Expertise

Inclusive Talent Management

Apply an Inclusion Lens to Your Talent Management Practices

Inclusive talent management focuses on interrupting biases and embedding cultural competence across key talent management areas, including recruitment, performance management, work allocation, mentorship and sponsorship, and promotions.

Inclusive Talent Management Practices are Critical for Retention and Advancement

As a consulting firm, bci works with executive leadership teams to create talent management and human resources systems and processes that are rooted in best practices – and directly support retention and advancement.

Why Choose bci for Inclusive Talent Management Training

Our training equips executive leadership teams, HR teams, hiring managers, and additional audiences with the tools, language, and frameworks needed to create high-performing cultures. Our knowledge of HR processes combined with our deep expertise in DEI allows us to impactfully guide executive leaders to unlock belonging and engagement for all. We work with you to address retention issues and to support DEI in your leadership ranks by providing you with practical tools across key talent management areas, including:

Recruitment

Identifying best practices and interrupting biases across the full range of recruitment processes and practices

Performance Management

Applying feedback best practices and DEI principles to formal and informal performance management processes

Sponsorship

Supporting executive leaderships teams on how to build cultures of sponsorship, especially across cultural differences

Work Assignments

Deconstructing work allocation processes so that every team member has access to high quality work and advocacy

Inclusive Coaching

Teaching a highly effective methodology for coaching across cultural differences that creates belonging and not conformity

Promotions

Helping executive leadership teams on how to lead inclusive talent roundtables and team calibration discussions

We Help Your Organization Embed Inclusive Talent Management Practices

Inclusive talent management is critical for creating an organizational culture that is rooted in belonging, psychological safety, empathy, empowerment, innovation, and engagement for all.

We work with executive leadership teams to address retention issues and to cultivate leadership and DEI best practices. We do this by identifying the practices, strategies, and tools needed to refine recruitment, performance management, mentorship and sponsorship, and leadership development systems.

Did You Know?

Belonging in the workplace starts with inclusive talent management.

In order to truly create a culture of belonging, empathy, and psychological safety, you must examine your talent management processes to ensure that they are free of biases and barriers.

This will require you to ensure that your recruitment efforts are rooted in inclusive hiring practices, including how to minimize bias throughout the application, interview, and decision-making processes.

This also means that executive leadership teams must: (a) ensure that feedback and evaluation practices have been vetted through a DEI lens to interrupt cultural biases, and (b) provide training to equip leaders with skills and best practices for delivering meaningful, impactful, and inclusive feedback.

All of bci’s inclusive talent management training can be offered virtually or in-person.

Inclusive Talent Management Resources

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Inclusive Recruitment Checklist

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Dr. Komal Bhasin, MSW, MHSc, DocSocSci

Komal is bci’s Senior DEI Consultant and Mental Health Expert-in-Residence and an accomplished DEI facilitator, coach, and strategist. Komal has over 20 years of experience in providing strategic and advisory guidance and program development across a range of sectors, with a particular concentration in mental health and racial inclusion. Komal is also the founder of Insayva Inc., a social enterprise focused on providing accessible DEI and health equity support to charities and non-profit organizations.

Komal has extensive experience in creating and delivering programming in a range of DEI areas, including unconscious bias, cultural competence, mental health inclusion, psychological safety, and allyship. She is passionate about driving transformational change in workplaces and has worked closely with bci clients – corporations, professional service firms, health care providers, and educational institutions – to embed cultures of DEI within their organizations.

Komal has provided one-on-one inclusion coaching to hundreds of senior leaders and brings a unique approach that is informed by her background as a psychotherapist. Using a trauma-informed lens and somatic approaches, she also has experience guiding leaders and teams in mending relationships, and rebuilding trust where harm has occurred due to inequities, intercultural conflict, value mismatches, exclusion, and psychological or geopolitical safety issues, with the goal of creating a more inclusive, resilient or organizational culture.

Komal also offers a performance coaching program designed specifically for BIPOC leaders. This program aims to help BIPOC leaders harness their place, position, and identity to thrive in the workplace and beyond. Komal is a qualified administrator of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI).

As bci’s Mental Health Expert-in-Residence, Komal offers tremendous expertise around workplace mental health. As a doctoral trained mental health clinician, certified health executive, and registered social worker, Komal has assisted organizations looking to advance employee mental health inclusion and well-being through offering programming on inclusive dialogue, anti-stigma, burnout prevention, psychological safety, resilience, and self-care. Komal is committed to advancing mental health and wellness across the life course; she currently serves on the board of the Alzheimer’s Society of Ontario and previously served on the board of Children’s Mental Health Ontario and the YMCA of Greater Toronto.

When Komal is not working, you’ll find her painting, cooking or snuggling with her cat.