About us
About Us
Diversity Empowerment, guided by the codes of good practice, encourages and inspires businesses to proactively and altruistically adopt and champion transformation strategies. These strategies aim to deliver sustainable youth and skills development projects.
“Reimagining B-BBEE as a transformative profit and purpose instrument is equivalent to impact investing – benefiting your bottom line and your community and country.” – Shauneen Procter, Partner at Idea Engineers and Co-founder of Reimagine SA Impact Incubator.
1. Customized Workforce Solutions: Tailored workforce solutions.
2. Long-Term B-BBEE Compliance Solutions: Utilize our Incubators for sustainable B-BBEE compliance across all levels.
3. Youth Skills Development Sponsorship: Champion and sponsor youth skills development initiatives.
4. Self-Sustainable Micro-Communities: Contribute to building self-sustaining micro-communities.
5. Dynamic Ecosystem Participation: Join an empowered ecosystem of corporates, social enterprises, SMEs, communities, and individuals.
6. Highly Competitive Pricing.
1. Skills Development: Accredited and non-accredited training.
2. Youth Placements: Focus on people with disabilities and previously disadvantaged individuals.
3. Talent and Career Development: Nurturing talent, skills, and careers within various subsidiaries.
4. Sponsored Stipends: Support for youth.
5. Reintegration into Main Workforce: Opportunities for re-absorption into sponsors’ primary workforce.
1. No Overheads: Avoid overhead costs.
2. Guaranteed Workforce and Support: Access a reliable workforce and support.
3. Affiliation with Sponsoring Corporates: Connect with sponsoring companies.
4. Ongoing Training and Marketing Support.
At Diversity Empowerment, we follow a strategic approach to ensure that transformation strategies harmonize with our clients’ business objectives across cultural, policy, and budgetary dimensions. Our strategies evolve over time through close collaboration with our clients. Here are the key areas of focus:
1. Cost-Effective Transformation and Skills Development Strategies: We design efficient approaches that not only address compliance but also create meaningful impact.
2. Ownership Planning and Implementation: Assisting clients in planning and executing ownership initiatives that contribute to a more inclusive business landscape.
3. Employee Development Plans: Nurturing talent and fostering career growth within organizations.
4. Procurement Consolidation and Supplier Relationship Management: Analysing supplier compliance levels, identifying key areas for improvement, and facilitating effective communication with suppliers.
5. Enterprise and Supplier Development: Supporting the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and social enterprises through targeted development initiatives.
6. Socio-Economic Development: Contributing to the well-being of communities and promoting sustainable economic progress.
At Diversity Empowerment, we follow a strategic approach to ensure that transformation strategies align with our clients’ business objectives in the areas of culture, policies, and budgets. Our strategies evolve over time through close engagement with our clients. Here are the key components:
1. Assessment and Enhancement of Existing Practices:
- We assist companies in identifying their current transformation practices to build upon.
- Customised transformation and skills development solutions are provided, addressing compliance while creating true impact and transformation.
2. Industry-Specific SME Incubation:
- We incubate industry-specific small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to train unemployed youth according to client specifications.
- Our team offers advisory, facilitation, implementation, and management services for adopted transformation and empowerment strategies.
- Clients have the space to continue their regular business operations while we handle the transformation process.
Procurement Solutions
Supplier Analysis:
- Detailed analysis of suppliers to establish compliance levels and identify key areas for improvement.
- Supplier liaison through meetings and workshops.
- Supplier sourcing.
“People cannot be reduced to mere tools powering economies; we must include communities as active participants who contribute to and shape our global economies.”
Enterprise and Supplier Development
Planning and Development:
- Successful enterprise development initiatives are planned and developed after thorough procurement analysis.
- We avoid a straightforward “donation” approach, focusing on supplier development within our clients’ supply chains.
- Our objective is for beneficiaries to become service providers for our clients.
Support for Existing Suppliers:
- Identified during the procurement analysis phase.
- Support may include mentoring, coaching, skills development, internal training, and funding
- Marketing/PR and communications
1. Diversity On Call: A contact centre handling inbound and outbound communication.
2. Diversity Innovation Campus: An entrepreneurial and development centre offering both accredited and non-accredited training.
3. Diversity Peoples Solutions: A unique recruitment service.
4. Diversity Financial:
- Retirement benefit counselling.
- Retirement fund death benefit investigations.
- Retirement fund member tracing.
- Retirement fund advice and accreditation in alignment with financial sector charter goals.
5. SOScall24: Incident management services.
6. Diversity IT: Providing IT solutions.
7. Our incubators are strategically situated near Wits and UJ, allowing students to utilize our facilities for enhancing and developing ideas or innovations. They can cost-effectively stress-test their minimal-viable products and prepare them for the market while completing their formal education.
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Athabile Jojo
Chief Executive Officer