Our dedicated teams drive diversity initiatives for gender, local communities, refugees, veterans, and minorities - a comprehensive approach that ensures you connect with the widest possible audience to strengthen your talent pipeline.
ED&I CONSULTING
Diversity is a Strategic Advantage
Our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion consulting goes beyond traditional metrics, incorporating a broad spectrum of diversity markers that align with your business needs to build robust and innovative teams.


We work with you to improve your candidate pathways, working conditions and employer perception amongst diverse candidates, putting your brand at the forefront of driving change in engineering.
Katy Hall
Head of Diversity
Katy brings over 14 years of experience leading high-impact diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies.
Katy is an internationally recognised DEI leader with deep expertise in inclusive leadership, psychological safety, and culturally nuanced recruitment. A published thought leader, Katy’s insights are regularly featured in global forums and cited in industry best practices—making her a powerful voice for organisations seeking meaningful, actionable change.
Available for speaking opportunities, she is an influential voice in global DEI discourse inspiring action across the energy sector and beyond.

Improve candidate pathways and tap into a broader talent pool
- Are you leveraging social media to showcase your employer brand?
- Have you considered Returnship programmes?
- Do you host networking events / on-site hiring events?
- Do you encourage Employee Resource Group collaborations?
We remove bias from the recruitment process
Optimised Job Ads
We'll deliver a well-written and fully optimised ad, aimed at reducing barriers to work and removing biases in hiring practice; ensuring that equitable and inclusive terminology is used in all your job postings.
Ensuring accessibility
Our website accessibility tool ensures job adverts on our NESF site are accessible to all, by allowing visitors to customise the content so that they can consume it in ways that work best for them – including the use of larger fonts, audio prompts and text translation.
Technology enabled
With one of the largest databases in the engineering industry, we apply recruitment automation software and industry-leading search and match technology to all our searches, automatically removing gender bias as part of the process.
Unbiased contact
Once we have identified a target pool, we use chatbot technology to focus on driving inclusive candidate engagement. Interacting with candidates by phone, text message, video call, or email in a way that eliminates bias.