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3 inclusion and diversity initiatives favoured by UK's most diverse companies
Virginia Bottomley, Chair of Odgers Berndtson’s Board & CEO Practice, discusses the UK Leadership...
Leaders, Diversity is Your Job
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Chief Executive Officer of Avanade, Pam Maynard, explains what it takes for issues of diversity t...
Why making one-off hires won’t help you achieve diversity
When it comes to increasing DEI, many organizations are beginning to hire diverse talent into the...
How to Help Working Mothers Thrive: 5 Action Steps for Employers
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Diversity Matters
Welcome to Diversity Matters, our collected insights and opinions on the subject of Inclusion and Diversity in the workplace and beyond.
How Inclusive Recruitment Training Can Benefit the Whole Business
Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace requires equity to be established in fair recruitment...
Breaking biases: Why shortlisting is critical to inclusive recruitment.
Sue Johnson, Managing Partner of the Inclusion & Diversity Practice, has been featured in HR...
New Inclusive Recruitment Diagnostic provides precision focus on inclusion maturity
A first of its kind, the diagnostic has already been used by fifty leading organisations, represe...
Advancing DE&I in Process Industries: An Interview with CEO & President EMEA of Azelis, Anna Bertona
Yan: There's a lot of talk in the industry about both sustainability as well as diversity equity...
Women in the future of leadership
Over the last few years, it is obvious the world has shifted to a more responsible leadership wit...
Diversity: how to reroute the gender bias
According to the World Economic Forum's 2022 Global Gender Gap Report it will take 132 years to a...
How can recruitment processes be more inclusive for autistic applicants?
There is a growing appreciation of the benefits of hiring and retaining people with autism, as ev...
How women’s leadership can be championed by HR
Female leadership has made immense gains over the past 50 years, but there remains a significant...
Supporting aspirational goals for gifted African women
The African Gifted Foundation (AGF), a charity providing science, technology, engineering and mat...
Diversity Dilemmas Newsletter - Issue #3
Our third issue focuses on two dilemmas that two organisations are currently facing. Firstly, how...
How not-for-profits can lead the way to more accessible board rooms
Accessibility plays a critical role in an organisation's ability to secure expertise from a diver...
Diversity Dilemmas Newsletter - Issue #2
Our second issue focuses on leadership engagement and cultural change. Ensuring leaders and stake...
Busting Bias in the Workplace
What we need to be aware of, however, are our unconscious biases. Particularly when we are making...
Diversity Dilemmas Newsletter - Issue #1
Welcome to the first newsletter from Inclusion and Diversity Consulting by Odgers Berndtson. We h...
How to support and advance Black leadership in your organisation
Investors are increasingly aggressive around the social issues companies pursue. In addition, boa...
How to stand up as a White Ally - Microaggressions to People of Colour
Preparing for a training session on microaggressions, I was running through the content with a co...
Why you shouldn’t shy away from hiring those on their menopause journeys
Hot flushes, poor sleep, anxiety, brain fog, joint pain, and irregular periods cause one million...
Why making one-off hires won’t help you achieve diversity
Many companies seem to be tackling their DEI goals through making one-off diverse hires into the...
3 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Before Hiring a Diverse Candidate
This is encouraging: companies are making an effort. And yet, if you’ve been paying attention...
How to take your I&D journey from insight to impact
Through events, analytics, and ally groups, we show our clients the many advantages of inclusive...
Leaders, Diversity is Your Job
Author: Marty Belle, Partner at OrgShakers Digging into Odgers Berndtson’s diversity, equity and...
Creating Pathways to Leadership for People of Colour
It is well-established that increasing diversity in an organization has major business benefits....
3 Ways Data Can Increase Your Diversity
Lower tenure numbers for diverse candidates are likely an indication that most companies (at leas...
How to Help Working Mothers Thrive: 5 Action Steps for Employers
An important introductory note: Although this article is primarily focused on “working mothers,”...
The Greying Talent Pool: Why you might be overlooking a valuable source of leadership talent
The recent emphasis on creating truly diverse workforces and leadership teams has seen action on...
Unlimited festival 2021
During Unlimited, we covered the entire spectrum of inclusion and diversity, from LGBTQ+ and bein...
Unequal Competition: How fast can we heal the pandemic’s damage to women’s careers?
The pandemic was a major setback for pre-existing efforts to close the gender gap in the workplac...
3 inclusion and diversity initiatives favoured by UK's most diverse companies
During the 20 years I have worked with Odgers Berndtson, there has been a sea change in the prior...
Government Spotlight: Diversity in the Board Room and Civil Service
The Odgers Berndtson and Berwick Partners Government Practice have partnered on a new initiative....
Managing through uncertainty and promoting women in STEM
Paul Butterworth: Sarah, you last spoke to us at our annual Maritime & Shipping Practice rece...
Unlimited festival 2020
Over the course of this week-long event, we covered the entire spectrum of Inclusion and Diversit...
Rethinking Diversity in Corporate Affairs
The evidence is universal: diverse teams perform better financially, have a competitive advantage...
The role of tech and data in improving D&I at every level – an interview with the CEO of Werkin
Why did you start Werkin? I had looked around – I was previously an executive in banking – and I...
Study shows women being denied promotions that lead to top roles
Odgers Berndtson have partnered with BoardEx to release a study, a global relationship mapping an...
Globalisation is a major catalyst for greater diversity and inclusion in the tech sector
Today announced as Co-CEO of Workday, Chano Fernandez (formerly Co-President), discusses how the...
Walking the talk: top tech CEO on making diversity and inclusion an enduring business priority
Mike Drew, Partner and Global Head of Odgers Berndtson Executive Search’s Global...
Over half of our FTSE 350 board appointments went to women last year
The Hampton-Alexander review of women on UK boards has a clear target: boards should be 33% femal...
Beating the odds: empowering women in marginalised communities
Worldwide, women are gaining ground in education, in the workforce and in government. But there a...
Leading the charge to attract black talent
When JPMorgan Chase launched a new initiative to attract and retain black talent, Valerie Rainfor...
Pioneering women making scientific history
It’s a history that stretches from a pioneering alchemist known as Mary the Jewess, who lived aro...
Pushing for scientific equality
Yesika Aguilera of Tespack, pioneers of wearable, mobile energy generation, feels that “in order...
UK Boards set to be more European post-Brexit says Odgers Berndtson
The UK’s departure from the European Union looks set to prompt FTSE companies to appoint more int...
Balancing the Boardroom
In 2015, a McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that those “in the top quartile for ethn...
Breaking the glass closet: LGBTQ+ and the boardroom
There are an estimated 455 million LGBTQ+ individuals globally, yet few C-suite leaders are openl...
Half of our FTSE 350 board appointments in past year go to women
Half of our FTSE 350 board assignments in the past year led to a woman being appointed. Notably,...
Let’s look beyond targets to unlock the value of strategic diversity
Spurred on by gender pay gap reporting and a growing recognition of the benefits of a more divers...
University research in AI, supercomputing and analytics key to gender diversity in tech
Mike Drew, head of the UK Technology Practice at Odgers Berndtson, said the government should rec...
Diverse approaches to talent bring rich rewards
In this final article in the series, Nick Claridge, Partner in the Consumer Executive Search Prac...
Launching women into hospitality senior leadership
The hospitality industry represents a serious challenge for diversity and inclusion. There are pl...
Women Leadership in Business
On 11 June 2018, more than 100 regional business leaders joined Odgers Berndtson at the British H...
What did they say about women in leadership?
His Excellency Scott Wightman, British High Commissioner to Singapore “The most successful busin...
Manufacturing: attracting and retaining women to close the skills gap
Not too many women say that a career in manufacturing is attractive. As a result, women are few a...
