What We Do

Education and Learning Solutions

Inspire and Equip Our Members to Build Leading Inclusive Workplaces

How does Vibrant Pittsburgh help businesses build inclusive cultures and become leading workplaces? Our approach involves intentional engagement at all levels of an organization in assessments, conversations, connections, and convenings. Each engagement is meant to move ideas into action through the application of sustained, layered learning and evaluation.

Lunch and Learns

Members have access to monthly Lunch & Learns that bring together member employees from across industry and sector in an informal, interactive, and virtual atmosphere to collaborate and deepen knowledge-inclusive workplace topics. Lunch & Learns are open for ALL member employees to participate in.

Vibrant Learning Labs (VLL)

Vibrant Learning Labs (VLL) are a series of training experiences from virtual to in-person that highlight critical opportunities to demonstrably improve the practices, policies, and culture of participating organizations, increasing the impact of our collective DE&I efforts. Topics focus on the nine (9) pillar areas of the Vibrant Index. Participants leave with tangible work plans that can be reviewed in their respective organizations for refinement and implementation with support from Vibrant Pittsburgh.

Vibrant Book Discussions

Vibrant Pittsburgh hosts private book discussions utilizing books focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Members can expect focused, engaging, and constructive discussions.

Customized Training & Development

We provide organizations with private, tailored training and education to provide a blueprint and sustained approach to developing a holistic workplace culture.

Workplace Culture Surveys

Vibrant Pittsburgh assists organizations in taking the pulse of their workplace by tailoring and facilitating a workplace culture survey. These surveys help leadership better understand how employees view their workplace and what inclusive practices will best impact their unique organizational culture.

For more information about our education and learning solutions suite, contact Allegra Elson, Director of Training and Development.

Talent Engagement and Connection

Vibrant Pittsburgh works with employers, colleges and universities, and diverse community groups to organize, promote and implement efforts designed to welcome, engage, retain, and elevate diverse talent. This work includes:

Allegheny Allies

Allegheny Allies is a regional affinity group with the mission of promoting a diverse and robust Greater Pittsburgh region through fostering fellowship, belonging, and professional development of diverse employees and their allies in small to midsize Vibrant Pittsburgh member organizations. Allegheny Allies is unique in its ability to connect employees across industry and sector, mitigating silos through cross-organizational pollination. Allegheny Allies supports the development of diverse employees at a regional level—especially those at organizations that may lack resources for Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). Allegheny Allies invites members from all affinity groups, encouraging talent to show up as their full, authentic selves without the need to put their identity into a single box.

Next Generation Council

The Next Generation Council was created to engage millennial leaders in the retention work happening in the Pittsburgh region, with the goal of gaining better insight into what young professionals think about the region and what impacts their desire and ability to stay in the region. As the millennial generation is diverse and highly mobile, their decision to stay in or leave our region will make a significant impact on our population growth and economic vitality over the next 20 years. Council participation is limited to member organizations.

Greater Pittsburgh D&I Forum

The D&I Forum gathers Pittsburgh-based Chief Diversity Officers and other leaders responsible for driving organizational DEI to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion as a strategic imperative. The D&I Forum acts as a voice to influence positive change, as a disseminator of promising DEI practices, and as a platform for the promotion of workplace DEI. Forum participation is open to Vibrant Pittsburgh member organizations.

Pittsburgh Regional EBRG Council

A quarterly convening of the leaders and sponsors of our member’s Employee Business Resource Groups (EBRGs), The EBRG Council connects EBRGs in the region to disseminate promising practices and support EBRG leaders within our membership.

For information regarding our employee peer cohorts, contact Matthew Yohe, Programs and Services Manager.

Executive Engagement

Executive Dine Arounds assist newcomer executives in making the connections that retain them in the region. Dine Arounds are fun, relaxing events designed to provide newcomers and their spouses or partners with an opportunity to connect with their peers in a stress-free environment. These gatherings typically occur in the homes of local executive hosts and include not only a diversity of newcomers but also local long-time residents. Dine Arounds create opportunities for executive newcomers to build crucial connections to easily and successfully settle into friendships and social and professional networks.

For information regarding our executive cohort, contact Matthew Yohe, Programs and Services Manager.

Vibrant Pittsburgh Talent Community

Vibrant Pittsburgh amplifies member job opportunities in the region to our 2500+ job seekers through our Job Board, Jobsburgh on LinkedIn, and the Jobsburgh Talent Newsletter. Through multiple touchpoints, we ensure that key positions are amplified, available, and accessible to broad talent communities in the region and beyond. For more information, contact

For information regarding our talent community, contact Sabrina Bogus, Senior Director of Membership Development and Engagement.

Data and Insights

Vibrant Pittsburgh partners with its members and the region to deliver insights that drive economic development that’s based in equity, inclusion, and belonging.

The Vibrant Index

The Vibrant Index initiative drives diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) changes across industry and sector. The Index identifies areas of success as well as what critical actions are needed to improve the practices, policies, and cultures of organizations in the Pittsburgh region. The Vibrant Index encourages companies to reflect on best practices while investigating opportunities to increase the impact of their DEI efforts.

Advocacy and Leadership

Vibrant Pittsburgh supports and amplifies efforts in the greater Pittsburgh community, including:

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