Be a racial equity
champion in real estate development

Design a proven playbook to integrate DEI strategies into your business

Do you know your DEI maturity?

Do you know your DEI maturity?

Demystify the risk of racial equity

Quantify the ROI of DEI

Cultivate equitable outcomes


Implementing racial equity strategies can seem complex, daunting, and risky.

Most commercial real estate developers struggle to prioritize racial equity practices into their business. And stakeholders are pressuring you to design a new playbook that generates economic return and social benefit.

We help developers create a proven DEI playbook that improves ROI and cultivates better community outcomes.


Define your WHY
Design proven DEI Frameworks grounded in your company’s vision.
Demystify the Risk
Cultivate diverse partnerships that build trust and dissolve the perception of risk.
Quantify the ROI
Develop measures, metrics and KPIs that quantify financial returns and social benefits.
Our DEI Frameworks help create new playbooks that have:

Generated thousands of jobs

Secured hundreds of supplier diversity contracts

Unlocked millions of diverse investor capital

We believe that real estate has the power to transform lives in equitable ways.

Over the last 20 years working in the real estate industry, we’ve seen how developers struggle to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion into their operating models.

At THM Advisors, we help developers embed racial equity strategies into their operating models to generate better social and financial outcomes for the companies and communities they build.


Our Founder

TAIDGH MCCLORY

Our Strategic Advisors

MILTON BENJAMIN

KAGE Growth Strategies

L. DUANE JACKSON

Alinea Capital Partners

ELWOOD HOPKINS

The Kresge Foundation

AMANDA STRONG

MITIMCo

SAEED COATES

The GPG Companies

MARCELLA BARRIERE

Google
  • “Taidgh McClory was absolutely fantastic to work with. At a critical stage during our pursuit of the Harvard Allston Land Company – Enterprise Research Campus development, THM Advisors helped our team define the WHY for DEI at the project level and design a holistic DEI Framework that guides our strategy today. We can’t thank them enough for strategic advisory services. With their help, we’ve transformed the way we approach and think about embedding racial equity through each stage of our development process. Thank you, Taidgh for helping us reach our goals and being such a reliable partner!”

    – Jessica Hughes
    MANAGING DIRECTOR, TISHMAN SPEYER
  • Taidgh McClory of THM Advisors was wonderful to collaborate with. As a national coalition of real estate developers and investors who advocate for sustainable, equitable, walkable development, our Smart Growth America/LOCUS leadership team had a unique need for local landscape analysis of current priorities for real estate developers and investors in MA. We were very excited to work with Taidgh given his focus on equitable development and social impact, and his strong network in real estate in New England.

    THM Advisors was able to provide Strategic Advisory support in collaboration with SGA and the current LOCUS MA president, partnering with LOCUS to produce both a high-level policy scan and identifying potential future collaborative partnerships and programs that aligned with LOCUS’ priorities. We especially appreciated Taidgh’s collaborative approach; he was an extremely engaged partner and his input and strategic ideas were very helpful as we honed our LOCUS MA strategy.

    – Katharine Burgess
    VP OF LAND USE & DEVELOPMENT, SMART GROWTH AMERICA

Here’s how it works


Schedule Free Diagnostic Call

On our first call, we’ll review your preliminary maturity assessment and DEI priorities. Then, we develop a scope of work for review.

Define the WHY of DEI

We’ll guide your development team through a diagnostic process that defines the WHY of your DEI priorities, assesses the current state of your DEI maturity, and establishes target goals across key areas of impact.

Design your DEI Framework

We co-create a holistic set of strategic DEI framework documents that maps out a strategic path, tactical actions, and reporting methods to help your team track progress, measure outcomes and quantify the ROI of DEI throughout each stage of the real estate development process.

Common DEI questions


View some of our most frequently asked questions to help you get started
DEI is so abstract for me, everyone is talking about the importance of DEI, but I am having trouble understanding where to begin and how to even start. 
The topic of racial equity in the real estate world can be difficult to understand and connect to the real estate development world without the right foundational knowledge. As part of our Discovery and Diagnostic process, we draw upon a suite of DEI subject matter expertise to help development teams apply foundational learning to understand the distinction between Diversity, Belonging, Inclusion and Equity practices and define the WHY of DEI.
We have an HR department, why do we need to hire a Strategic DEI Advisory…can’t our HR team deal with this?

Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish between internal DEI initiatives and external DEI initiatives. Acknowledging that every company and project is at a different point on their journey to integrate diversity, equity, & inclusion into their business, our DEI Framework model takes a customized approach to help development teams assess the DEI maturity level and begin to define the DEI areas of impact that are most important to their company and development.

Real estate is all about the numbers and quantifying the return on ROI to my investors. If I can’t quantify the ROI, it is doesn’t matter to me. How do you even begin to quantify the ROI of DEI efforts?
We understand that commercial real estate is a capital intensive pursuit that is constrained by a finite project schedule and budget. Our DEI Frameworks help developers quantify the DEI effort and integrate the strategy into the development budget and schedule so that financial and social outcomes can be quantified as part of the ROI.
I already have a development playbook that works, implementing a DEI strategy is just going to increase the risk and development budget for this project, which feels daunting and complex. 
Successful commercial real estate development have honed their operating playbooks through the years. Adding extra elements to an already complex process can seem daunting an risky. However, as you look across the commercial real estate landscape, all of our customer segments (employees, tenants, and capital) are increasingly demanding new playbooks be create that prioritize social impact and racial equity. The growing number of companies that work with THM DEI Solutions are developing new playbooks that integrate DEI into their business.

FREE ASSESSMENT DOWNLOAD

DEI Maturity Assessment

Determine Your DEI Benchmark

We believe that advancing racial equity takes dedicated time and energy. Our assessment provides the critical first step towards designing your Strategic DEI Framework.

Be a racial equity
champion in real estate development

Design a proven playbook to integrate DEI strategies into your business

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