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Diversity

  Why NEI / Diversity

  • Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

    Malcolm Forbes, American Publisher

  • We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

    Desmond Tutu

  • There’s a pure and simple business case for Diversity:  Companies that are more diverse are more successful.

    Mindy Grossman, American Business Woman

  • We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.

    Tim Berners-Lee, English Inventor

  • One of my core values is diversity of everything.

    Brad Feld, American Business Man

  • In diversity, there is beauty and there is strength.

    Maya Angelou

  • Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

    Stephen R. Covey

  • Diversity is a great driver of innovation.

    Manish Choudhary, India Business Man

  • The value of a diverse team is its capacity to challenge the norm or group think and thus boost organizational performance and improve decision-making.

    Yrthya Dinzey-Flores

  • Diversity drives innovation.

    Telle Whitney, Computer Scientist

  • If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

    Frederick Douglass

  • Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.

    Bill Nye, American Scientist/Educator

  • Diversity creates dimension in the world.

    Elizabeth Ann Lawless, Author

  • You can do what I cannot do.  I can do what you cannot do.  Together we can do great things.

    Mother Teresa, Humanitarian
 

Diversity Matters at NEI Global Relocation

NEI Global Relocation is a nationally certified Women’s Business Enterprise. We are also one of the top relocation management companies in the industry, serving more than 207 national and multi-national companies worldwide. NEI’s first tier diversity spend typically exceeds $723 million dollars annually!

With corporate relocation budgets ranging from $100,000 to $40,000,000 or more, per year, many companies are excited to count this sizeable contribution toward their supplier diversity goals.

In addition to being a first-tier diversity supplier, NEI’s own diversity initiative operates with the full support of our Information Technology, Global Service Partner Relations, and Reporting and Expense Management departments. We track and report on those service partners who represent diverse suppliers to us and have set a 25 percent annual second tier diversity spend goal for our company.  In 2020, we achieved 32 percent!

Recognition as a Diverse Supplier

NEI is a recognized leader among women owned and run businesses. Featured below are a few of the awards we have received over recent years.

During our first year as this company’s relocation provider, NEI Global Relocation focused on ensuring a seamless implementation of their relocation activity, including transitioning activity from the former provider, streamlining processes, combining the relocation services of several divisions and integrating their existing supplier network with new service partners.

In addition to accomplishing a seamless transition, NEI exceeded the company’s expectations by earning 100% client and transferee satisfaction. We were honored to be recognized with this prestigious award after just one year of working together!

The corporate division of Exelon presented NEI with its Diverse Supplier of the Year award, indicating at the presentation that this award was a direct reflection of the excellent service consistently delivered by the NEI Exelon Team.

NEI Global Relocation received the prestigious WBE Who Rocks award at the WBENC National Conference and Business Fair thanks to a nomination from one of our large beverage clients. The award recognized ten exceptional Women Business Enterprises who excel, not only in their professional accomplishments, but have also shown strong leadership and involvement in their communities.

The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, and the companies they run. More than 1,200 organizations and individuals from around the world enter this competition each year to be recognized for their contributions in the workplace. During the two years in which NEI entered, we were awarded two gold awards, five silver awards and three bronze awards, plus a Grand Stevie!

NEI was recognized by the Institute for Career Advancement Needs (ICAN) with the Best Place to Work for the Advancement of Women award for its efforts to provide excellent advancement opportunities for women in the workplace.

NEI Global Relocation was named 2017 WBE of the Year at the Women’s Business Development Center of Chicago (WBDC2) 31st annual conference, WBDC2: Connect & Celebrate.

The WBE of the Year Award is presented to:

  • an established business that is WBENC-certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise by the Women’s Business Development Center,
  • has leveraged their certification status to secure public and private sector contacts and produce economic impact,
  • and has been a leader in the community.

NEI Global Relocation was awarded the 2016 and 2018 MillerCoors Procurement MWBE Supplier of the Year for exemplifying the qualities essential to our mutual success. Additionally, NEI received the 2018 Corporate Services award.

NEI Global Relocation received the Support and Services Award at the American Water Inaugural National Supplier Diversity Summit. NEI’s daily contact at American Water was extremely happy for NEI to be recognized and shared that their company greatly appreciates the NEI Team’s responsiveness, support and recommendations.

NEI Global Relocation was honored to receive the CVS Health Star Award for Supplier Diversity.

Valuing Diversity

As a company, NEI values diversity and embraces the concept throughout our company.

Our employee population is 80 percent women with the makeup of our leadership team being 70 percent female and 30 percent male—significantly different from much of corporate America. Approximately one in every eight NEI employees speak multiple languages. In all, NEI employees speak 29 different languages and a significant number were born in or have lived in countries outside the United States.

NEI partners with Women-, Minority-, and Veteran-owned businesses, which represent millions of dollars in diversity spending. We have also been a nationally certified Women’s Business Enterprise since 2001.

Our training program emphasizes the importance of diversity with something as simple as teaching our employees to understand diverse communication styles to help us speak with greater meaning to our clients’ relocating families.