The FutureWork Institute Forges Strategic Alliance

With The National MultiCultural Institute

Unique Alliance Enables Diversity Consulting Pioneers to

 Expand Services and Offerings

Washington D.C., May 28, 2008 – The FutureWork Institute, Inc.® (FWI), a leading global workplace diversity consultancy, today announced it has entered into a strategic alliance with The National MultiCultural Institute (NMCI), a non-profit organization that works with individuals, organizations and communities on a range of multicultural issues.  The alliance marks the first time a leading global diversity consulting firm has aligned with a leading non-profit, combining the experience of both like-minded organizations.  

FWI and NMCI are proven leaders in the field of diversity consulting, each boasting more than 20 years of experience.  The core competencies of both organizations include strategic consulting, organizational assessments, training, coaching and research. The founders of both organizations, Margaret Regan, President  & CEO of The FutureWork Institute and Elizabeth P. Salett, President of the National MultiCultural Institute are recognized leaders in the diversity and multicultural community.

As part of this alliance, Ms. Regan, president and CEO of FWI, has been named to the NMCI Board of Directors as Vice Chair.   

“It has always been my intention for The FutureWork Institute to have the capacity to consult with non-profits and public institutions,” said Ms. Regan.  “When the opportunity to collaborate with NMCI came up, we realized early on that our perspectives were so closely aligned, that it was a very unique opportunity for both of us to come together to broaden and deepen our scope and impact.”

FUTUREWORK INSTITUTE FORMS ALLIANCE WITH NMCI

FWI, originally founded as the Global Diversity Practice at global workplace consultancy Towers Perrin, conducts global research and analysis for large corporate clients while the NMCI offers training and consulting services, organizes conferences and develops publications targeted at the non-profit community. FWI operates in Europe, Latin America, Asia and North America. NMCI focuses its efforts in the U.S. market but attracts workshop participants from around the world.

As a result of this collaboration, NMCI will expand its offering to include several additional services to its clients. NMCI will now provide a diversity executive on loan to institutions that need interim leadership to start or sustain diversity efforts. It will also expand its conference sessions on the future of healthcare, education and not-for-profits and create a curriculum to train the next generation of diversity leaders. As an added benefit of this alliance, NMCI will also be able to provide its clients with a place in the 3-D virtual world for affinity groups to meet and for client staff to engage in diversity and inclusion simulations.

“We are thrilled to enter into this strategic alliance with Margaret Regan and The FutureWork Institute,” said Elizabeth P. Salett, President, NMCI.  “FWI brings an important new dimension to NMCI that will help us to execute our core mission of creating a more inclusive society as well as enable us to operate on a global scale.”

In November, FWI will co-sponsor the semi-annual NMCI National Conference. Ms. Regan will deliver the keynote address on future workforce and marketplace trends, highlighted by a journey into the virtual world of Web 2.0. The  conference will feature NMCI’s workshops on training of diversity trainers, cultural competency and strategic diversity initiatives, while FWI consultants will provide a series of diversity and inclusion workshops as well as separate tracks on the future workplace and marketplace trends in healthcare, education, not-for-profit and corporate environments.

About The FutureWork Institute

The FutureWork Institute, Inc.® (FWI), formerly the Global Diversity Practice of Towers Perrin, is a leading global diversity workplace consultancy with a strategic change management approach to diversity and inclusion. The firm was spun off in 2002 to model the workplace of the future, experimenting with an approach based on “my-job my-way, my-business our-way and my-perks my-way.”  FWI counsels its clients to tie diversity to their business strategy and move

FUTUREWORK INSTITUTE FORMS ALLIANCE WITH NMCI

their organizations forward by deepening their work on the traditional issues of race, ethnicity and gender while exploring emerging issues such as generational diversity, career diversity and religion at work. FWI clients have traditionally been Fortune 1000 companies and other large for-profit enterprises. For more information, please visit www.futureworkinstitute.com.

About The National MultiCultural Institute

Founded in 1983 and celebrating its 25th year in operation, the National MultiCultural Institute (NMCI) is one of the first organizations to recognize the nation's need for new services, knowledge, and skills in the growing field of multiculturalism and diversity. In the past few years, over 40,000 participants have attended its national conferences and on-site workshops and hundreds of organizations have used NMCI’s customized consulting and training services. NMCI’s proven methods help individuals and organizations gain the knowledge and skills necessary to seamlessly integrate effective diversity and inclusion practices into their organizational culture. NMCI’s clients include educational institutions, government agencies, associations and health and human services organizations. For more information, please visit www.nmci.org.