| | DECEMBER - 2022MANAGEHRMAGAZINE.COM19Apart from the experience that you exhibit, what makes EMC the best-in-class Diversity/Employment Equity consulting practice in the nation? We stand out because of the results we help our clients to achieve. We bring to each engagement, our depth and breadth of expertise, our cross-industry experience, and our well-developed consulting skills. EMC works with client organizations as a strategic business partner and provides advice, tools, and expertise to ensure they succeed. In the employment equity compliance space, we guarantee and deliver compliance for federal contractors and federally regulated employers. We help all clients establish the systems, policies, and practices that create systemic change. Consulting interventions include workforce surveys, quantitative and qualitative analyses, employee consultations, EDI Audits, ESRs, training workshops, policy development, corporate change strategies and EDI action plans. We provide hands-on consulting to support our clients create, implement and monitor their plans to become better and more competitive employers.Please elaborate on the approach that EMC takes to develop EDI programs for its clients. First, we understand the business of our clients and the challenges they face as employers and in their marketplace. EDI is a business solution, and this informs our approach to EDI. EMC identifies corporate policies, practices, and elements of corporate culture that are barriers to access, inclusion, and employee engagement. We then work collaboratively with our clients to develop policies, programs, initiatives, and strategies that remove systemic barriers. We strengthen their internal capacity to attract, retain, and engage the diversity of talent they need to be successful. Our client organizations become more open, accessible, and productive.Tell us about EMC's acquired considerable knowledge about the diversity/employment equity environment across the nation. How does it help you in steering ahead as a company? EMC has conducted innumerable in-depth diagnostic lived experiences interviews with Canada's workforce about racism, sexism, homophobia, gender identity and gender expression, ableism, anti-indigeneity, equity, diversity, engagement, and exclusion in the workplace. We have reviewed scores of employment policies and practices to ensure they are bias free. EMC's client corporations, their employees and bargaining agents are representative of a wide range of industries, corporate cultures, occupations, geographical and economic regions, and provinces across Canada. In this way, I have acquired considerable knowledge about the inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility and anti-racism environment across the nation, the barriers to inclusion, and strategies and initiatives that best promote anti-racism, diversity, and inclusion. I use this knowledge to help our clients build inclusive and winning work cultures. We work with our clients to develop, implement and monitor their EDI plans and to leverage the diversity of their workforce to become better and more competitive employersWebsite: employmentmatters.ca Location: Ontario, Canada
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