
DIELP Certification
This train-the-trainer and certification program equips you with a proven and strategic approach to implement and manage diversity for performance.
TIME | 3 Days
WHO | Sustainability Professionals, HR, D&I or ESG Managers
For all maturity stages.

What is Diversity Management?
This is the additional business performance delivered by having a workplace culture and systems where diverse talents can thrive to perform at their best.
A Strategic Framework
Learn Kay Formanek’s research-backed methodologies for designing and implementing impactful D&I strategies.
Maturity Map
Learn how to assess your organisation’s maturity in Diversity & Inclusion. Bring your organisation through a stage-wise development with a 5-Stage approach.
Measuring Impact
Learn how to assess the effectiveness of your D&I initiatives and demonstrate clear return on investment.
Executive Engagement
Gain tools for executive consensus and organisational engagement. Understand where you need to begin with your leadership team.
Core Diversity Capabilities
Bid goodbye to multiple initiatives with unmeasurable outcomes. Focus on only building 6 key capabilities to enable organisational performance through diversity.
Go Beyond D&I
Understand how to bridge D&I across to CSR and ESG to be a critical part of enabling your organisation’s social mandate.
What You will Gain
This training will equip you with the framework, tools, and skills to transform your organisation’s approach to diversity and inclusion, moving from concepts to tangible impact.
STAGES OF MATURITY
STAGE 1: Legal Compliance
STAGE 2: Stakeholder Requirements
STAGE 3: Organisational Performance
STAGE 4: Reinvention
STAGE 5: Societal value
FIVE CORE CAPABILITIES
1. Mitigate Bias
2. Build Case
3. Embed Behaviour
3. Harness Policies
4. Measure & Monitor
5. Celebrant & Sustain
IN-PERSON TRAINING
Secure your place today and become a certified leader in driving meaningful inclusion. Our next training in 2025 / 2026 will be held in Shanghai, China and Tokyo, Japan.
A minimum of 8 participants is required if you wish to run your own training.
Training Outcomes
Understanding of D&I as a Framework:
Participants will acquire a thorough understanding of a diversity and inclusion framework that is refined at over 100 organisations. It will enable you to effectively identify opportunities for improvement, and develop tailored strategies for fostering inclusion.
Learn a Strategic Approach:
Participants will gain proficiency in utilising our diversity and inclusion maturity model to assess organisational readiness, track progress, and identify areas for growth, enabling them to strategically align initiatives with business objectives and measure impact effectively.
Development of Core Competencies:
The training will equip participants with essential core competencies in areas such as diversity definition, inclusive leadership, unconscious bias mitigation, use of data and standards, empowering participants to navigate complex diversity challenges and lead with authenticity and empathy.
Gain a Community:
Create new connections with other diversity and inclusion professionals, providing opportunities for networking, knowledge sharing, and collaboration, which can lead to collective action in advancing diversity and inclusion efforts.
Frequently Asked Questions
What topics will be covered in the 3-day intensive training?
Apart from what is listed above, you will gain insight into the tools for behaviour change, best practices in D&I, understand how to view and act upon the challenges faced by different minorities.
What practical skills or tools will I gain?
Walk away with tools for executive buy-in, stakeholder and multi-functional engagement. You will learn how to assess your organisational maturity and what gaps needs to be filled. You will understand what it takes to be a courageous leader in D&I. While you will not walk away to be able to execute everything yourself – you will know in detail the capabilities to be developed to deliver a successful D&I road map.
How can I be sure that your framework is something that I want to use?
Our framework is based on Dignitea’s professional practice with the foundation being based on the work of Kay Formanek, ex-Accenture Managing Director and a global leader in the professional practice of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. Kay’s framework has been used extensively in Europe and the US, with our adaptation for Asia.
Can the framework be customised to my organisation’s needs?
Yes, it has been used and applied successfully across industries including governments, educational institutions, banking & finance, healthcare, energy, professional services, manufacturing and more. It can be applied to organisations as small as 200 to those over 10,000 across multiple geographies.
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