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Our Commitment to Diversity

Our purpose, to find and develop leaders that shape a better society, drives everything we do. Public service is our business and promoting diversity and equality through more representative leadership has always been part of our DNA. We firmly stand against racism and inequality and the events of the past few months show starkly the racial equality gaps that still remain. We believe that Black Lives Matter and support this call for those in positions of greater influence to do more. Doing more, and not just saying more, is important to us.

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Diversity embedded into our process

We champion under-represented groups and we recognise that greater progress is needed still. Since 2019, we have placed over 100 Black, Asian and other minority ethnic leaders in senior Executive and Non-Executive roles (13%* of all appointees) and women make up 55%* of our senior appointments, and the LGBTQ+ community 7%* of appointments.

Using our in-depth public sector insight, data analytics and in-house team of occupational psychologists, we do more than just help clients find candidates from a wide talent pool. We advise clients through every step of the recruitment process on how to remove barriers and facilitate candidates from all backgrounds.

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The Insight Programme

Identifying and encouraging high quality candidates from a broad range of professional backgrounds to become Non-Executive Directors or Trustees on high-performing Boards is a challenge that is faced within all the sectors GatenbySanderson serves.

To help address this challenge, and as part of our own contribution to build talent and equip candidates to be future ready, we have created Insight at BoardBank. The programme provides mentoring support and first-hand exposure to the Board environment to aspiring Non-Executive Directors and Trustees from under -represented groups in our Health, Housing and Not for Profit sectors.

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Our Internal D&I

We also challenge our own organisation; we introduced full agile working in 2019 to create a more inclusive environment as well as investing in greater mental health awareness with 8% of our staff becoming Mental Health First Aiders. We are signed up to the Hampton Alexander voluntary code of conduct for Executive Search firms, are Disability Confident and members of the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion (ENEI). In January this year, 100% of our people received unconscious bias training. Our current priority is seeking greater representation from black and ethnic talent to our own leadership team, which will add to the strong gender balance we already have.

We are thankful to colleagues who have shared personal experiences and helped us learn more, understand better and be more forthright in asking the difficult questions. We will continue to use the voice of our people and their expertise to shape our D&I strategy and hold us all to account.

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CSR

Our active CSR programme helps to support the work that we do across the business to address the opportunities provided by the issues of equality, diversity and inclusion. From our pro bono Insight at BoardBank programme, to providing our colleagues with the time and opportunity to volunteer with schools in the communities in which we live and work, we see CSR as a key part of how we promote equality, diversity and inclusion as key drivers of our core purpose to shape a better society.

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More than anything, we want our actions today to be tomorrow’s legacy: a fairer society we all take a responsibility to help build.

For further information, please contact:

Ainslie Wilson-Shearer, Inclusion & Diversity Manager

Ainslie.Wilson-Shearer@gatenbysanderson.com



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