Founded in 2010, The Rising Tide Group is a Business Enterprise supplier diversity, small business development consulting, and strategic service provider.

★Diverse Supplier outreach and decision-maker engagement strategies  Provide insights and recommendations to help organizations identify and capitalize on opportunities for increasing procurement with minority- and women-owned business enterprises (MBEs/WBEs).  Devise and implement targeted, technology-driven strategies to engage, onboard, and retain diverse suppliers by drawing on industry links with MBEs and WBEs as well as diverse supplier advocacy councils. ★Supplier Diversity program development, and facilitate strategic plan sessions,  Perform a comprehensive SWOT analysis of existing diverse supplier outreach/engagement strategies, identify operational gaps, and deliver recommendations to refine supplier diversity programs and processes.  Build supplier diversity programs from the ground up, including establishing vision, strategy, processes, metrics, and standards (including diverse supplier inclusion spend plans and utilization strategy).  Plan, execute, manage, and evaluate supplier diversity events such as business exchanges, opportunity fairs, meet and greets, and matchmaker events. ★Supplier Diversity education, training, and development Programs  Deliver training, mentoring, and coaching to diverse suppliers on sales, business development, and customer relationship management best practices to help secure new procurement business.  Created tailored training programs and workshops based on supplier needs/priorities to maximize their consultative selling, market research, data analysis, and presentation skills competencies.  Construction Business Building Events- The goal Increase the utilization of Minorities, Women, and Small Business Enterprises within the construction industry -Project lead on format, framework, development, and diverse sub-contractor outreach engagement strategies, and tactics.  Developed a Construction Playbook in collaboration with a client to support General Contractors in outreach, engagement, and utilization efforts to recruit diverse sub-contractors: Playbook content sections included:  |Supplier Definitions Common Terms| Advocacy Councils Certification Organization| Outreach Best Practices| |Certification Resources| Tier Two reporting |FAQ|