State Street executives back BAME initiative to spotlight ethnic minority experience in the workplace
Custodian says “being silent is not an option anymore” and adds weight behind initiative to support positive dialogue on race in the workplace across industries.
A new initiative aimed at
spotlighting the journeys of successful ethnic minority professionals has been set up by one of State Street’s managing directors and backed by a number of C-level executives from across the custodian’s business.
Reboot. comprises a team of ethnic minority ally cross-industry communications and marketing professionals who are aiming to use the power of storytelling to support positive dialogue on race in the workplace and engage senior leadership across large organisations to help tackle conscious and unconscious biases.
More talk, more walk – DiverCity Podcast returns
Julia Streets, Founder and Host of the DiverCity Podcast
Now more than ever, businesses like to tell us what they care about. Most company websites have a full section extolling the corporate values they claim sets them apart. Think: a culture of flexibility, low environmental impact or strong workforce diversity.
Unfortunately, the walk does not always match this talk.
Even though diversity and inclusion has become an increasingly important subject within the corporate world, much still needs to be done to champion representation across all aspects of the spectrum including gender, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, disability and more.