A best-practices approach to evaluating legal compliance, enhancing employee morale, and retaining talent.

This Toolkit is intended as a basis for discussion around beginning or improving upon DEI data collection and metrics tracking efforts.

Join Nicsa for an engaging Fireside Discussion where we’ll explore how to define corporate culture, protect it, and what it means to be a “culture carrier” within your organization.

Join Nicsa & LGBT Great in this interactive LGBTQ+ Inclusive Language session as we navigate the ever-evolving landscape of LGBTQ+ inclusive language. Learn practical tips and discover how to bridge the generational gap in these crucial conversations. Gain valuable insights for fostering understanding and respect to drive a more inclusive workplace.

Whether you're a seasoned professional, emerging leader, or ally committed to diversity and inclusion, this webinar provides valuable perspectives for empowering women to thrive in the workplace and beyond.

A best-practices approach to evaluating legal compliance, enhancing employee morale, and retaining talent.

Learn how to create, develop, and evolve successful employee networks.

Learn how to start identifying and evaluating critical DEI metrics.

View the highlights from Nicsa's Fearless Leadership Forum, which took place in June 2023 in New York, NY.

This Toolkit is intended as a basis for discussion around beginning or improving upon DEI data collection and metrics tracking efforts.

Hear from Nicsa Rising Stars and experienced industry mentors about the differences between networking, mentoring and sponsorship.

Building hiring lifecycles that support gender, ethnic, and cultural diversity involves rethinking talent pools, rewriting job descriptions, and refining interview processes. This toolkit offers action steps for expanding talent search policies and practices.

Providing clear information about the expectations allows candidates from all backgrounds to engage fully, and can give diverse candidates the confidence to continue with their application. This toolkit offers guidance for hiring managers and/or human resource teams on how to best prepare candidates for an interview.

Staying inclusive and connected to colleagues has different meaning in a virtual, work-from-home environment. Intentional behavior changes aimed at keeping inclusion at the forefront can result in a more engaging and productive environment.

One of the greatest business challenges the asset management industry faces in a competitive environment is retaining diverse talent. This toolkit offers guidance on career conversations aimed at increasing engagement and reducing turnover.

Establishing inclusive interview processes mitigates bias and welcomes the broadest spectrum of candidates to our industry. This toolkit provides action items for HR teams, interview panels, and hiring managers to conduct interviews more inclusively.

Simple Starts: a two-part road map to (1) intentional behavior changes and (2) policies and programs aimed at producing more diverse, productive, and inclusive workplace. These “Simple Starts” are sourced from an in-person lightning round discussion among Diversity Project North America Founding Firms. They are intended to spark meaningful dialogue about the formation, improvement, and maintenance of DEI practices.

Get best-practice insights on talent search and onboarding tactics that lead to diverse candidate slates. Hone your firm’s recruitment and retention strategies with expert guidance from our panelists.

This webinar features key insights and dialogue from Nicsa's annual DEI perception study. Subject matter experts behind the survey and the DEI space will take a deep dive into the eight key takeaways from the report and where we go from here.

A Time for Understanding is a program developed by founding members of Diversity Project North America. The program is intended to facilitate frank conversations and help bridge cultural divides inside and outside of the workplace. It is designed to include and to benefit all associates, regardless of race, gender, cultural or religious affiliation. The program can be customized and personalized for any firm wishing advance allyship among their employees.

Nicsa's Listen, Learn & Lead program is a series of important discussions around diverse segments in the asset management industry. As part of its Listen, Learn & Lead series, Nicsa hosts an important discussion with professionals from the AAPI Community about their personal journeys within the asset management industry including career growth opportunities, business relationships, entry into finance, and the hurdles along the way. Take away actionable guidance and tips that all business leaders - across all levels, racial identities and backgrounds - can leverage to address inequalities and prejudices in the workplace, to build more inclusive organizations, and harness the benefits of a diverse workforce.

The effective collection of diversity data is not just a talent issue, it is also a critical business and reputation issue. The purpose of this virtual event is launch the ‘Holding up the mirror: diversity data in the investment, wealth management and savings industry’ report. Find out how to get ahead, and align diversity data at the core of your organization's purpose. This is an LGBT Great & EY Report, done in partnership with the Diversity Project UK and NICSA, the Diversity Project North America.

An LGBT Great & EY Report, done in partnership with the Diversity Project UK and Nicsa, the Diversity Project North America.

Nicsa's Listen, Learn & Lead program is a series of important discussions around diverse segments in the asset management industry. In acknowledgment of International Women's Day on March 8, this installment will focus on empowering and sponsoring women both within your organization and throughout the global asset management industry. Advocating for the advancement of women is crucial for improving gender balance and diversity in leadership teams, while sponsorship can create successful pathways for women at different stages in their careers.

Join us for an important discussion about race in the asset management industry. Hear from a range of generational perspectives about what it means to be a Black senior leader, mid-level manager, or new entrant in the industry.

Join Nicsa's Diversity Project North America for a Town Hall Meeting on the growing momentum behind the Diversity Project North America. You’ll hear a first-hand update on the Project’s goals and recent initiatives, including the 2020 Pulse Survey Report, a benchmark for DEI progress in the asset management industry. Our leadership panel will outline the new operating committees and workstreams being put into action in 2021 and share how your firm can get involved in one of the industry’s fastest growing initiatives. Don’t miss this opportunity for members and potential members to ask questions of Diversity Project North America’s leadership, and see what's on the horizon for 2021 and beyond. All participants will receive a complimentary copy of our 2020 Pulse Survey Report.

As part of its Listen, Learn & Lead series, Nicsa hosts an important discussion with Latinx professionals in the asset management industry about their personal journeys, including career growth opportunities, business relationships, entry into finance, and the hurdles along the way. Join us for actionable guidance on how to reach young Latinx talent and create a support system that allows people the opportunity to develop and grow in an inclusive environment.

Insights on Diversity & Inclusion from multiple sessions at Nicsa's 2020 General Membership Meeting. Featuring: Jamie Dimon, Soledad O'Brien, Mellody Hobson, Jenny Johnson, Tyler Mathisen, and more.

A best practices approach to developing tangible business policies in support of racial equity in the asset management industry.

Join us for a continued discussion about race in the global asset management industry.

Diversity is a Business Imperative

This panel from Women in Asset Management Virtual Summit in September 2020 goes in-depth on how to make the asset management industry more inclusive in this era of digital and remote work. It features panelists from Nicsa and Nicsa's Diversity Project North America members. Nicsa.org/Diversity womeninassetmanagement.uk/new-york/ Panelists: Justine Phoenix, Nicsa Niamh Fitzgerald, BMO Global Asset Management Paul Olschwanger, Aon

Nicsa takes a pulse check on the perception of diversity, equity and inclusion (D&I) in the asset management industry.

Industry conversations regarding vendor governance continue to take a front seat as strategic partnership trends continue on an upward trajectory. To what extent are diversity and inclusion policies and metrics factored into due diligence processes? Learn what industry leaders are doing to ensure their vendor governance and oversight models are modernized, effort-efficient, and effective in 2021 and beyond. How has COVID19 impacted outsourcing trends and vendor oversight?

A conversation about how allies can promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and a candid look at the obstacles impacting black people in the asset management industry. Featuring: Steve Duncan (BNY Mellon), India Gary-Martin (Leadership for Life), Maurice Tsuro (BlackRock), and Jason Tyler (Northern Trust)

This panel from Women in Asset Management Virtual Summit in September 2020 goes in-depth on how to make the asset management industry more inclusive in this era of digital and remote work.

Join us for an important discussion about race in the global asset management industry.

A conversation with Diversity Project NA founding members around employee well-being and keeping the spotlight on inclusion in this new WFH environment.

Launched in 2018, Aon’s Diverse Sponsorship Program is part of the company’s broader Diversity & Inclusion goals and objectives.

This case study outlines how the BlackRock Women's Leadership Forum program is designed for female managing directors from various businesses and geographies to complement other leadership programs, as well as to focus on the challenges that women specifically face, especially once they started climbing the ranks in their careers.

The PGIM Partnership Program: The ultimate goal of the program is to create opportunities for senior leaders to share and understand different perspectives by creating cross-gender partnerships to bolster diversity and inclusion.

American Century’s Chris Lahna on why collaboration is so important when tackling diversity and inclusion issues

Join expert Connie Lindsey, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Diversity & Inclusion at Northern Trust, as she leads a discussion around progressing talent recruitment, retention and managing to improve diversity and inclusion in the financial industry.

Financial services firms continue to re-imagine their business models. As our industry re-defines the workplaces of the future, more firms are implementing and scaling workplace wellness programs.