Real. World.
Change.
For Organizations

Make meaningful, visible, and real DE&I change with EDGE Empower and accelerate your journey to becoming a higher performing business.

Meaningful, visible change for all organizations

Small and Medium Sized Businesses

EDGE Empower is a single, integrated solution for DE&I change. It is the one place where SMEs can access both bespoke actions plans and independently verified EDGE Certification.

for employers

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Large Organizations

EDGE Empower gives teams in larger businesses DE&I tools that enable higher performance. Use EDGE Empower to create a more diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace and get EDGE Certified to show the world that your business holds itself to the highest DE&I standard.

Insurers

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Our Insights

Avenues to assess Gender & Intersectional Equity

EDGE

Looking at women and men as two homogeneous groups.

EDGEplus

Looking at women and men as diversified groups and measuring the intersection between gender and other aspects of diversity.

EDGE Empower helps you make DE&I change through our data-led approach

Representation

Get a clear picture of representation in your organisation by assessing pipeline and board composition.

Pay Equity

Understand pay equity by analysing both salaries and total cash compensation.

Effectiveness

Assess the effectiveness of your policies and practices against our global standard.

Employee Experience

See how employees experience opportunities and fairness in your organisation.

Benchmarks

Benchmark your organisation against our global standards and peer analysis.

Action Plans

Get a custom action plan for best practice and start making Real. World. Change.

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Achieve Real DE&I Change

EDGE Empower brings you actionable insights and market-leading knowledge while connecting you to a network through verified certification.

How can you empower an effective DE&I plan?

Watch how courageous business leaders can see difference with clarity and make change with purpose.

How can you strengthen the S in ESG?

Society’s expectation of businesses is changing, what can organizations do to meet these new benchmarks?

Our approach

Measure

Cloud-based, SaaS platform – EDGE Strategy Tool™ – for gender and intersectional equity. Includes powerful benchmarking and predictive analytics capabilities.

Get Certified

Independent third-party verification and certification.

Accelerate

Action plan definition and implementation monitoring.
Access to the EDGE community for learning and exchange.

The science behind EDGE

The way we measure gender equity is by looking at qualitative and quantitative processes and outcomes, where there are four key pillars.

Representation

Along the pipeline, across different types of jobs and different levels of responsibility.

Pay Equity

Equal pay for equivalent work.

Effectiveness

Ensuring equitable career flows when it comes to pay, recruitment and promotion, training, flexible working and organizational culture.

Inclusiveness

As reflected in employees’ experience in terms of career development opportunities.

Real. World. Change.

EDGE Empower brings all of our knowledge, tools, and independently verified certification together.

Certification levels for wherever you are on your DE&I journey

EDGE Assess

EDGE Assess is for organizations who are starting to think about their DE&I strategy. It’s all about recognizing your commitment to change and providing your organization with solid baselines and benchmarks to accurately measure progress.

EDGE Move

EDGE Move is the certification level for organizations that are already committed to DE&I but still want to improve. EDGE Move showcases this commitment, while giving organizations further support as they progress their diversity, equity and inclusion strategy.

EDGE Lead

EDGE Lead is our highest certification level, showing that your organization meets every single one of our standards. This level is for organizations that lead the way in DE&I and have a robust commitment to ESG.

EDGEplus

Recognizes a public commitment to analyzing intersectional issues relating to gender equity and other aspects of diversity.

How EDGE Certification works

Once you’ve made the decision to get certified you get instant access to our EDGE Empower. This is the first step on your 2-year certification cycle – where you will Assess, Accelerate, Get Certified, Monitor and Learn.

Assess

EDGE Empower analyzes your data and uses software to measure and benchmark where your organization stands on its DE&I journey.

Accelerate

EDGE Empower makes expert recommendations via a bespoke EDGE Action Plan – a plan tailored to your organization that is designed to help you improve and accelerate your DE&I strategy.

Get Certified

Once you have your EDGE Action Plan, you will get EDGE Certified at your correct level – Assess, Move or Lead. Now you can show the world your commitment to DE&I and focus on accelerating or maintaining it.

Monitor

Throughout a 2-year cycle, EDGE Empower helps you continuously monitor your progress and supports you as you implement your EDGE Action Plan.

Learn

EDGE Empower contains a full library of knowledge, helping you solidify your DE&I strategy. You can also use EDGE Empower to connect with a network of DE&I and HR professionals to discuss best practice and exchange ideas.

EDGE helped us elevate conversations and create better strategies that get to the root cause of how to grow gender balance across levels.

Janet P. Pope - North America CSR Director, Capgemini