Diversity Builder’s Mission
Diversity Builder seeks to enhance workplace cultures and communities through training, coaching, and consulting that elevates engagement, inclusion, diversity and equity, resulting in enhanced belonging and community.
How It Started
Diversity Builder, Inc. was founded in 2003 with the mission of building an inclusive business and healthcare environment for members of marginalized groups seeking services. Diversity Builder was one of the early members of NAPP (Nashville Association of Professional Persons), an LGBTQIA+ business networking group. As Diversity Builder developed its LGBT-friendly physician and business resource and referral directory, it became the first of its kind to encompass every state in the nation. Each state includes businesses and physicians who agree to be inclusive and affirming of the client’s unique identities.
In 2004, Diversity Builder began receiving calls from businesses that had located the directory and wanted information on how to improve their company’s inclusivity in the workplace. As a result, Diversity Builder formed its training, coaching, and consulting division to equip organizations and staff with knowledge and strategies to establish a thriving workplace culture with a strong sense of community and civility.
Workplace Training Division
It all started with an equitable, respectful, and inclusive mindset. The training branch of Diversity Builder was launched. Diversity Builder began providing individual and group onsite training courses, including diversity equity and inclusion programs, cultural competence, leadership excellence, collaboration across organizational boundaries, resolving unconscious bias, sexual harassment and bullying prevention, disability and accessibility, having difficult conversations, multigenerational workplace, team building, interpersonal and effective communication, managerial and new supervisor training, True Colors training, CliftonStrengths, conflict resolution, ADA and EEOC training, to name a few.
First LGBTQIA+ Owned Training Company Certified as LGBTBE
In 2005, the NGLCC (National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce) announced Diversity Builder, Inc. as the first diversity training corporation to receive its supplier diversity certification. The NGLCC is the exclusive certifying body for LGBTQIA+-owned (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, and Intersex) businesses. Diversity Builder’s trainers are considered among top leaders in the United States and Canada for LGBTQI+ diversity training and gender sensitivity/identity and expression classes. Diversity Builder is the first diversity training company in the United States to develop an online interactive gender training in the workplace class dedicated to gender identity and gender expression.
Training options evolved and now include in-person group training, individual and group training via webinar and remote online coaching, or self-paced online training courses.
Diversity Builder’s Vision: Inclusion
Diversity Builder advocates the advancement of inclusive practices, respect for all persons, and the elimination of discrimination.
Diversity Inclusion Policy – Diversity Builder embraces diversity and partners with businesses that agree to welcome and respect all employees and customers, inclusive of race, creed, culture, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, age, HIV status, ethnicity, pregnancy and/or physical appearance.
Diversity Builder supports supplier diversity and engages diverse companies in its work. If you are interested in becoming a trainer with Diversity Builder, please contact us and share your vision of how you wish to contribute to the team. Diversity Builder seeks to work with vendors who are WBE, MBE, LGBTBE, VBE, SDVBE, and/or BEPD.
See Diversity Builder’s national diversity directory for a list of physicians, attorneys, corporations, and organizations who have pledged to welcome all.
Diversity Builder trainers are from diverse backgrounds including different races, national origins, genders, disabilities, and sexual orientations. Diversity Builder believes that including different perspectives within our training team heightens our innovation and sets us apart in the service to the customer.
Internet Marketing Branch Begins: SEO SEM
Soon after the inclusive directory went live, DiversityBuilder.com was listed in the top 2% websites on the internet. This was due to internet marketing tactics put in place to promote our clients. The high ranking and immediate referrals through the business listings were quickly noticed. A number of the businesses listed in the directory contacted Diversity Builder to find out how to improve their own websites and rankings.
The company founders realized that through the process of building the Diversity Builder website, they had acquired a skill that was needed in the business community, so she decided to begin offering her internet marketing services to other businesses in the area.
The digital marketing division of Diversity Builder was formed and quickly grew. Diversity Builder currently provides internet marketing services to over 50 businesses, locally and nationwide. Services provided include search engine optimization, reputation management, local link building, local Google listing promotion, email campaigns, pay per click services, social media management, and much more.
One thing that sets Diversity Builder apart from other internet marketing companies, is the customized plans for clients. No two businesses are the same and therefore their online marketing plan should differ. With Diversity Builder, no contract is required.
