2022 Shortlisted Nominee Inclusive Culture Initiative Award United Utilities is a FTSE 100 listed company, providing water and wastewater services to over 7 million customers across the North West – where black, Asian and ethnic minority representation is just 9.2 per cent. UU combined the results of an external specialist inclusion audit with existing data to develop its comprehensive, organisati... »
2022 Shortlisted Nominee Inclusive Culture Initiative Award 50:50 The Equality Project is a grassroots, data-driven initiative to address the historic imbalance of voices in the media. From small beginnings on one programme in the BBC newsroom, 50:50 has become the largest collective action to increase representation in BBC content, with 750 teams committed to featuring more women, ethnic minority... »
2022 Shortlisted Nominee Head of Diversity & Inclusion Award Christine led HSBC’s WPB Network Diversity and Inclusion team. While at WPB Network she built a cohesive D&I ecosystem to connect, support and inspire senior leaders and 5,500+ Branch colleagues where none existed before. Christine’s contribution has been revolutionary, restoring confidence and increasing engagement of ethnic min... »
2022 Shortlisted Nominee Head of Diversity & Inclusion Award Head of Employee Experience and Inclusion at Capgemini UK, Bal Gill is leading change at scale in the UK and beyond. Six years ago, Capgemini formed their Active Inclusion approach, putting an inclusive workplace at the heart of their employee proposition and experience. Bal is a transformational leader and trailblazer who leads stra... »
2022 Shortlisted Nominee Head of Diversity & Inclusion Award Having previously worked with brands such as Virgin and Sainsburys, Janet Tidmarsh is Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Whitbread. The company have made great improvements in terms of D&I over the last two years. In 2020, Whitbread made visible commitments, including targets to have greater diversity in leadership, with goals of... »
2022 Shortlisted Nominee Outstanding Diversity Network Award BEAM is Hampshire Constabulary’s Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Support Group. Chief Constable Olivia Pinkney is the force’s Race Champion. BEAM’s mission is to make Hampshire Constabulary the employer of choice for BAME people in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The key areas of focus are recruitment, retention and progression of BAME... »
2022 Shortlisted Nominee Outstanding Diversity Network Award The Embrace Network is Bird & Bird’s multicultural diversity network established to promote diversity and represent racial and cultural experiences. Embrace welcome everyone within the firm, who relates to, identifies with, appreciates or celebrates the culture, religion, history and experience of ethnic and racial minorities i... »
2022 Shortlisted Nominee Outstanding Diversity Network Award The Disability & Neurodiversity Network brings together colleagues from across Auto Trader to raise awareness and make a difference to disabled and neurodiverse colleagues. They aim to make Auto Trader a more accessible and inclusive working environment for existing colleagues, whilst positively impacting the disabled and neurodivers... »
2022 Shortlisted Nominee Chief Executive of the Year Award Since becoming the CEO of Diageo in 2013, Ivan has passionately championed inclusion and diversity across the company. In 2020 he launched a new 10-year sustainability action plan titled ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’. The plan sets out ambitious inclusion and diversity goals including to have 50% representation of women in leadership ... »
2022 Shortlisted Nominee Chief Executive of the Year Award Andrea Sutcliffe is the Chief Executive and Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) – the independent regulator of nursing and midwifery professionals in the UK. Andrea works tirelessly to champion EDI and to create an organisation that listens to, respects and celebrates all of its employees, and the wider nursing and m... »