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Racial and Ethnic Inclusion

Achieving racial and ethnic inclusion is a complex task that requires addressing preconceptions of race and ethnicity, and embedded racism and inequitable treatment. This involves an in-depth analysis of an organisation’s systems along with a fulsome understanding of the lived experience of those from racial and ethnic groups – even more challenging when considered across different countries.

Symmetra offers systemic audits, awareness-raising and skills-building workshops, and digital toolkits that lay the foundation for building racial and ethnic inclusion by providing a deep understanding of the dynamics of race and ethnicity. This motivates people to become active allies of their diverse colleagues and to ensure an equitable culture and system is maintained.

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How Symmetra Helps Build Racial and Ethnic Inclusion

Symmetra’s roots in building racial and ethnic inclusion trace back to its founder Heather Price’s work for many years with her team in helping to dismantle apartheid in the South African workplace 1994 to 2003 . Since that time, Symmetra has established itself as a leading consultancy across the globe specialising in embedding inclusive behaviours and creating workplace cultures that better support colleagues from all racial and ethnic backgrounds.

Raising Consciousness and Understanding of Race and Ethnicity

Symmetra helps to create a better understanding of personal biases around race and ethnicity that have been internalized unknowingly, the privileges and advantages dominant groups possess, and the challenges diverse racial and ethnic groups face on a daily basis leading to inequity

Building Psychological Safety

Our workshops, toolkits, and inclusion diagnostics equip leaders to create safe spaces for thoughtful and empathetic dialogue and interactions with their racially and ethnically diverse colleagues, suppliers, and customers.

Supporting Leaders to Take Purposeful Action

We empower leaders to engage in fearless conversations on race and ethnicity, disrupt stereotypes, counteract systemic racism, and embed inclusive behaviors throughout their teams and the organisation..

Fostering Active Allyship

Symmetra provides the impetus to members of dominant groups to challenge the status quo and inspire others to use their power and privilege to achieve equity and inclusion, so those without aren’t fighting the battle alone.

The Impact of Symmetra’s Racial and Ethnic Inclusion Solutions

Disruption of personal stereotypes and bias

By means of deep personal reflection and exploration of actions and attitudes towards those from diverse groups, individuals can better understand and identify their biases and stereotypes and begin and take steps to disrupt bias from undermining the quality of talent and business decisions in their organisations.

Heightened psychological safety

Through a better understanding of the lived experience and significant challenges of diverse team members, overall empathy and trust increase, allowing people to feel comfortable being themselves and taking interpersonal risks without fear of being punished or ridiculed

Greater employee engagement and productivity

Individuals that feel their diverse backgrounds and perspectives are respected, valued, and included, report increased job satisfaction, greater sense of belonging, heightened motivation to work towards shared goals, and readiness to tap into their discretionary effort

Empowered Leaders

Leaders are equipped with the knowledge and confidence they need to engage in the necessary dialogue with their teams and to take purposeful action to embed a true meritocracy that embraces all forms of diversity in their organisations.

How Symmetra Stands Out

For more than 20 years Symmetra has been committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and has partnered with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, and other racial and ethnic groups across the globe who experience exclusion and discrimination, to seek progress in racial and ethnic equity and social justice. We bring years of specialised experience and expertise to the table on this challenging issue which has been overlooked by many organisations for too long.

We understand the uniqueness of each business, its people and its local context. Consequently, our racial and ethnic inclusion solutions can be tailored to your organisational needs and to your geographic location by our racially and ethnically diverse team of leading experts in racial inclusion, to create safe, inclusive, and equitable work environments for your whole team.

To date, Symmetra has helped countless organisations on every continent, from a range of industries, from small start-ups to large multinationals, from corporates to developmental agencies, to achieve racial and ethnic inclusion for all.

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  • How We Help
    • Inclusive & Equitable Systems
      • Organisational Diagnostics
      • DEI Strategy and Advice
      • Inclusive Hiring and Talent Systems
      • Empowering Change Agents
    • Inclusive Leadership
      • Getting Leadership Buy-In
      • Inclusive Leadership Index Assessment
      • Inclusive Leadership Journeys
      • Inclusion Coaching
      • Inclusion Foundations
    • Inclusive Teams & Culture
      • Team Inclusion Assessments
      • Inclusion Skills Development
      • Digital and Scalable Learning
      • Learning Bites Library
      • Team Coaching
      • Workplace Gender-Equality Requirements
  • Why Symmetra?
    • Our Approach
    • Our Impact
    • Our Team
    • Careers
  • Learning Hub
    • Inclusive Leadership Report
    • The Fifth Wave of Fairness​
    • Leadership Framework
    • Inclusive Hiring Roadmap
    • Respect at work
    • Worker Protection Blueprint
    • DEI Insights
    • Events
  • Contact Us
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