Our Services

Consulting Services

Consulting and Advisory Guidance

bci has worked with numerous organizations across industries in a consulting capacity to provide deep expertise and knowledge of leadership, talent management, and DEI best practices. We offer hands-on, practical consulting and advisory guidance to organizations – whether you’re at the beginning of implementing leadership best practices, you need guidance on how to address particular talent management challenges, or you want to take your leadership and DEI programming to the next level.

Consulting Support – From Strategy
to Execution

We are known for our excellence in delivering consulting and advisory services to help executive leadership teams with strategizing and executing best practices in talent management programming.

We will work with you to assess the current status of your leadership, talent management, and DEI practices and systems – and we’ll identify the next steps for developing your organization’s infrastructure and for building internal acumen that will help you reach your goals. In working with us, you will have a dedicated leadership, talent management, and DEI expert to guide you at every step of your journey.

How to Use Our Consulting Services

Retain our leadership, talent management, and DEI experts to help provide you with consulting guidance and advisory support on a range of leadership, talent management, and DEI best practices.

Purchase a bank of hours with one of our experts, who will provide strategic guidance, recommendations, and knowledge of best practices that are practical, business focused, and research driven, across a range of areas:

Talent 
Management

bci can help your organization to embed best practices in talent management across a range of areas, including: recruitment, onboarding, performance management and feedback delivery, employee development and engagement, retention strategies, and sponsorship programming.

Organizational 
Assessments

Our consultants work with you to assess your organization’s current leadership, talent management, and DEI practices and structures. We utilize various qualitative and quantitative data collection methods to assess and understand experiences within your organization and provide you with recommendations and next steps.

Crisis/Issue
Management

Despite your best efforts, difficult and high-profile internal and external challenges can arise. bci provides strategic guidance on how to navigate and address complex leadership, talent management, and DEI issues before they arise and diffuse difficult situations when they occur.

Strategic Planning Guidance

bci’s consultants provide recommendations on the current best practices for ensuring that leadership, talent management, and DEI principles inform your existing business practices and assist with the review and creation of your strategic plan.

And More!

In learning about the specific opportunities or challenges that your organization is experiencing, bci offers targeted consulting services and customized action plans to address your executive leadership team’s needs.

Where Are You on Your DEI Journey?

The Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) is a leading assessment tool that helps to both measure and benchmark the cultural competence, or inclusiveness, of an individual leader, team, or organization. bci has now administered the IDI to several thousand leaders and hundreds of teams globally, helping them to identify key inclusion barriers and teaching teams about how to work more effectively across cultural differences. The IDI is an essential tool for raising your teams’ cultural competence.

Ritu was a key resource for us during a time of transition. Her open, approachable communication style and the accessibility of both her content and delivery have been invaluable to our DEI journey as a company. Additionally, her free ongoing webinars on important issues have been informative and helpful for our leaders.

Nancy Pearson and Anne Browne

President, Publishing and Marketing and Director of Finance, Scholastic

In Ritu Bhasin, Universal Music Canada has gained a compassionate thought partner who leads and educates with authenticity, transparency, and directness. Ritu has guided us through important, impactful, and at times challenging discussions, offering insights and leading us to new realizations with the utmost empathy and integrity. Her ongoing support has helped us to assess key areas of growth, change and development while broadening our perspectives and continued learning.

Jeffrey Remedios

Chairman and CEO, Universal Music Canada

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 services 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 therapist. She is able to expertly handle sensitive conversations and situations and works with leaders to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to advance racial/ethnocultural, gender, and mental health-related equity across teams and organizations. 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.