Vaud Consulting’s fractional CDO is an hourly, contracted consultant whose role is to provide strategic guidance for an organization’s diversity and inclusion solutions. Beyond serving as a part-time addition to your leadership team, fractional CDOs can function as an interim executive during the search for a permanent CDO, advise the CEO on diversity and inclusion strategies, and even offer crisis management guidance on issues of DEI.

A key component of any successful diversity and inclusion initiative is understanding the equity and inclusiveness of your organization’s policies. With Vaud Consulting’s full DEI Audit, we can help you identify ways to make your policies more inclusive, competitive, and meaningful to your employees. Unlike a compliance-based audit, our policy review identifies structural barriers to inclusion within your organization’s HR policies and the extent to which inclusion exists from an administrative and human resources perspective.

At Vaud, we partner with several reputable vendors to assist your organization in successfully deploying assessments and establishing the right metric for your organization’s improvement. We partner with you hand-in-hand, providing a comprehensive report and a set of recommendations to establish a roadmap for actionable implementation.

Either as a stand-alone service, or as a follow-up to a quantitive assessment, Vaud Consulting has over a decade of experience in focus group facilitation. Numbers often tell part of the story, so we like to present snapshots of quantitative data to focus groups to help unpack the numbers and/or hold open listening sessions to pull out important organizational themes.