A practical self-assessment that helps you understand your organisation’s inclusion maturity, identify clear priorities and take action with expert support.
Answer 12 focused questions, receive a tailored report and use your expert-led debrief to identify where inclusive culture can create greater value, measurable progress and clearer priorities for your organisation.
12 multiple-choice questions
Report within 10 days
Debrief call with an expert
Clear priorities to action
First step towards accredidation
Many organisations are committed to inclusion, but struggle to know where to focus next. You may have policies, training, networks or leadership commitments in place, but still need a clearer view of what is working, where progress is stalling and what will create the greatest value.
The Inclusive Employers Assessment helps you step back, understand your current maturity and identify practical priorities for action.
Use the Assessment to:
The Inclusive Employers Assessment is a structured diagnostic tool that helps you understand your organisation’s inclusion maturity and decide where to focus next.
You will complete 12 multiple-choice questions across four inclusion pillars. Each question focuses on an area of practice that is vital to building inclusive culture that is practical, measurable and sustainable.
The Assessment is not an accreditation or award. It is designed to give you a clear starting point for reflection, planning and action before moving towards deeper accreditation through the Inclusive Employers Standard.
The Assessment measures inclusion maturity across four practical pillars. Together, they show whether inclusive culture is owned, embedded, enabled and measured across your organisation.
How accountability, responsibility and strategy are owned across the organisation.
How policies, processes and ways of working shape people’s day-to-day experience.
How leaders, managers and teams are equipped with the guidance, tools and capability to make inclusion part of everyday work.
How your organisation measures progress and understands whether inclusion activity is creating meaningful, sustained change.
Answer 12 multiple-choice questions and choose the statements that best reflect your organisation’s current approach.
Within 10 days of completion, you will receive a report showing your results across the four pillars.
Your report highlights areas for consideration and brings your recommendations together in a draft action plan.
Your Assessment includes a debrief session with a senior inclusion professional. Together, you will explore what your results mean, where to focus first and how your organisation can move from insight to action.
Your Assessment report is designed to help you make better decisions about where to focus time, budget and effort.
A clear overview of your maturity across the four pillars, helping you see where your organisation is strongest and where progress may be needed.
Feedback and considerations for each question, helping you understand what your current approach suggests about your wider inclusion maturity and what you could do to increase your impact.
A practical template that brings your recommended actions together, so you can prioritise, assign ownership and track progress.
A session with a senior inclusion professional to help you interpret the findings, tailor your next steps and identify where further support could help.
Inclusion leaders are increasingly being asked to show where activity is creating value and where further investment is needed.
The Inclusive Employers Assessment gives you a practical evidence base for those conversations. It helps you understand your current maturity, identify where progress could be stronger and prioritise actions that support more measurable, sustainable change.
Use your results to support conversations about:
Your results indicate one of four maturity levels. These descriptors are designed to help you reflect on your current approach and understand what kind of progress may be needed next.
Your organisation may be at the beginning of its inclusion journey, or focusing on actions that are not yet driving sustained impact.
Your organisation is developing its inclusion approach beyond the basics, but may still be focused on more performative activity than strategic work.
Your organisation has a more considered approach and is responding to specific inclusion challenges in your sector or context.
Your organisation has more mature inclusion practice, focused on strategic work, reflection, review and sustained impact.
Note: These maturity levels are indicative only. They support reflection and action; they are not a professionally assessed award standard.
The Inclusive Employers Assessment is a practical entry point for organisations that want to understand their inclusion maturity and identify what to prioritise next.
When you are ready to evidence your work, benchmark performance in more depth and gain external recognition, the natural next step is the Inclusive Employers Standard.
The Inclusive Employers Standard gives you a deeper, evidence-based accreditation route, helping you demonstrate commitment, strengthen your business case and show that inclusion is integral to your organisation.
The Inclusive Employers Assessment and the Inclusive Employers Standard support different stages of your inclusion journey. Start with the Assessment if you need clarity, priorities and a practical route forward. Progress to the Standard when you are ready for deeper evidence review, benchmarking and formal recognition.
| Your organisation needs to… | Inclusive Employers Assessment | Inclusive Employers Standard |
|---|---|---|
| Understand where you are now | Gives you a quick, practical view of your inclusion maturity across four pillars | Provides a deeper, evidence-based assessment of your inclusion and diversity work |
| Decide what to focus on next | Helps you identify clear priorities and recommended actions | Provides detailed feedback and a progression plan based on expert scoring |
| Build internal confidence before investing further | Gives you an accessible starting point before committing to a fuller accreditation process | Helps you evidence progress and demonstrate commitment at organisational level |
| Turn insight into action | Includes a tailored report, draft action plan and expert debrief | Includes tailored feedback, personalised support and a strategy session |
| Evidence your work in detail | Helps you reflect on your current approach, but does not require evidence submission | Requires evidence across the inclusion framework and is scored by inclusion experts |
| Benchmark performance externally | Gives an indicative view of inclusion maturity | Benchmarks your score against relevant comparison groups, including industry, organisation size and wider samples |
| Gain formal recognition | Acts as a practical first step before accreditation | Awards a Committed, Bronze, Silver or Gold certificate |
| Choose the right route | Best if you want quick clarity, practical recommendations and a lower-commitment starting point | Best if you are ready for formal accreditation, external recognition and deeper benchmarking |
Benchmarking can help you understand where you are. The Inclusive Employers Assessment is designed to help you understand what to do next.
Like Onvero’s TIDE, the Inclusive Employers Assessment uses a structured self-assessment approach to help organisations reflect on their inclusion practice. Both tools can support benchmarking and provide a clearer view of where your organisation is on its inclusion journey.
The Inclusive Employers’ difference is the action-focused support built into the Assessment. You receive diagnostic insight, practical recommendations, a draft action plan and a debrief session with a senior inclusion professional.
So you do not just understand the gap. You begin to close it.
Complete 12 multiple-choice questions across four practical inclusion pillars.
Receive recommended actions and areas for consideration that help you prioritise what to do next.
Discuss your results in a debrief session with a senior inclusion professional, so your next steps are tailored to your organisation.
Use the draft action plan included in your report to track progress and turn recommendations into delivery.
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Use the Assessment as an entry point before progressing to formal accreditation through the Inclusive Employers Standard.
A focused, practical starting point for organisations that want clarity before investing further time, budget or resource in inclusion work.
The Inclusive Employers Assessment is free for eligible Inclusive Employers members. Non-members and Aspire members can access the Assessment for £495 + VAT.
Not sure whether you are eligible? Complete the enquiry form and our team will confirm the right route for your organisation.
Inclusive Employers members
Free for eligible members
Includes report, draft action plan and expert debrief
Non-members and Aspire members
£495 + VAT
Includes report, draft action plan and expert debrief
Tell us a little about your organisation and our team will help you confirm the right next step, whether that is completing the Assessment, preparing for the Inclusive Employers Standard or exploring wider support to strengthen inclusive culture.
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No. The Assessment is a self-assessment diagnostic that helps you understand your inclusion maturity and identify practical next steps. If you are looking for formal accreditation, the Inclusive Employers Standard is the natural next step.
The Assessment includes 12 multiple-choice questions and is designed to be quick and focused. You will need to complete the Assessment within one month from being given access to the Assessment.
You will receive a report within 10 days. The report includes your results across the four pillars, recommended actions and a draft action plan. A debrief session with a senior inclusion professional is also included.
It should be completed by someone with a good overview of your organisation’s inclusion approach, strategy, policies, systems and activity. Some organisations may choose to involve more than one stakeholder before submitting their answers.
The Assessment is a quick self-assessment that helps you understand maturity and priorities. The Inclusive Employers Standard is a deeper accreditation process that requires evidence, expert scoring and benchmarking, and results in a Committed, Bronze, Silver or Gold award.
Yes. The Assessment can help you identify strengths and areas to develop before progressing to formal accreditation through the Inclusive Employers Standard.
Yes. The Assessment helps you understand your current maturity, identify clear priorities and create a practical action plan. This can support internal conversations about where to focus time, budget and resource.
The Assessment helps you understand how inclusion is connected to accountability, systems, capability and impact. This can support wider priorities such as employee engagement, leadership, retention, performance and risk management.
It is free for eligible Inclusive Employers members. For non-members and Aspire members, the price is £495 + VAT.
Your report is partnered with a debrief session with a senior inclusion professional, helping you interpret the findings and tailor your next steps.
Once your enquiry is confirmed, you will receive access to the online assessment platform with the information you need to complete the self-assessment. This must be completed within one month from access.
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