Diversity powers progress.
Laisar provides supplier diversity, sustainability services and solutions.
Since 2012, our innovative, and integrated solutions for economic inclusion and workforce utilization, have shaped community engagement and overall corporate strategies.
Analytics Storytelling for Meaningful Impact presented at NMSDC 2022
November 2, 2022 – Florence Amate, Laisar Founder and CEO, and Kerry R. Watson, Jr., Regional Vice President, Government Affairs, MGM Resorts International, highlighted the power of storytelling to communicate socio-economic impact and specifically supplier diversity at the National Minority Supplier Development Council Conference and Exchange in New Orleans.
In today’s business environment, there is no escaping that consumers and employees are significantly influenced by their personal values, and they look to buy, join, and engage with companies who align with them. It is not enough to have a static values manifesto pinned to a website. Furthermore, while brands are successfully using their marketing to show their commitment, in an increasingly sophisticated and connected culture, it is not enough to espouse these fundamental principles or allude to them in marketing representations. People want to see the values, the process, and the results. To best engage key and potential stakeholders on corporate values, businesses need to amass and analyze data and tell the story that is revealed by the results.
If Your Supplier Diversity Data is not Giving You Insights, You Are Doing it Wrong
One of the most important ways an organization can concretely enhance its commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) is as a consumer of products and services. Where and how an organization spends its money matters, particularly when the spend actualizes...
Procurement’s Role in Spend Analysis, Business Strategy and Supplier Diversity
Procurement departments are finally having their day, and successful companies are recognizing the key role they can play in achieving strategic goals, enforcing policy, and communicating results throughout the organization. As many organizations wrestle with current...
Storytelling as a Business Strategy
In today’s business environment, there is no escaping that consumers and employees are significantly influenced by their personal values, and they look to buy, join, and engage with companies who align with them. It is not enough to have a static values manifesto...
Beginning with data, we help our clients gain new insights into their organization, update business strategy, and tell compelling stories about socio-economic impact in the communities where they live, work and serve.
Corporations, contractors, and government agencies turn to Laisar.
Companies committed to diversity and investing in the communities where they operate are more financially sound and yield greater bottom-line results.
We leverage our proprietary Laisar Assessment Methodology™ to assess organizations across ten distinct areas. Our framework provides a transparent review of where an organization is and how to move forward.
“The Laisar team was highly professional and experienced from the beginning of the project, and was completely dedicated to helping us achieve our economic impact and inclusion goals.”
MGM National Harbor, Oxon Hill, Maryland
Data Analytics for Socio-Economic Impact
Beginning with data, we help our clients develop and tell compelling supplier socio-economic impact stories that highlight community engagement that goes beyond requirements.
Proprietary software with powerful algorithms and visual reporting.
Achieve your supplier diversity goals.
Through our proprietary data analytics software, we collect your company and procurement data, as well as current supplier demographic information. With this knowledge, we guide you through a custom plan to advance your supplier diversity program and goals.
Impacting Communities.
Understanding the power of local, small and diverse business spend is critical when building stronger communities. Leveraging the power of community engagement with economic and social impact reporting provides transparency and increases trust with key stakeholders.