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Black Experience

Four key focus areas aligned to the firm’s global shared values of fostering inclusion and taking care of each other.

The Deloitte Black Experience


Four years on from launching our Black Action Plan, we have reflected on the steps we have taken, consulted with our Black colleagues and used insights from our Inclusion and Ethnicity Councils and Engage for Change survey to help us understand the impact our actions have made and where we still need to do more.

These insights have shown that while we have made some good progress, particularly around creating space for conversation, we need to do more to materially change our Black colleagues’ experience and ensure consistency. To increase our focus and drive momentum across our firm, we have evolved our Black Action Plan into The Deloitte Black Experience.

Our Focus Areas

Enhancing the experience of Black colleagues, through community, engagement and visibility with senior leaders.

Recent highlights include:

  • Our new Black Experience Retreat – a unique opportunity for 100 of our Black colleagues (assistant manager to senior manager grade) to not only connect away from the workplace, but to take time to attend tailored workshops, hear from guest speakers, and focus on their career goals and aspirations.
  • A dedicated session on Inter-Generational Trauma (the transmission of historical trauma across generations, leading to ongoing psychological and social impacts) which we ran during Mental Health Awareness Week. This externally facilitated event offered discussion, resources, and support for our Black colleagues. Receiving hugely positive feedback, it is the highest attended event run by our Black Network.

Focusing on intentional, effective and impactful sponsorship for the Black pipeline for example, through our Future Leaders Programme.

Ensuring that there is fairness, transparency and equitable access to leadership roles and stretch opportunities.

Support Black partners in coming together for peer support and enhancing the experience of our Black partners.

What's next?


We’ve achieved a lot over the past four years, but we know there’s still much more to do. This is an ongoing journey – not a single year effort. Our priorities for the year ahead include:

  • Continuing to support our leaders, providing data and insights to hold them to account for ongoing progress towards our Black targets.
  • Continuing to develop our colleagues, track our progress against our targets and embed inclusive behaviours into our culture and ways of working.

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