Ivan Menezes, CEO, Diageo
Since becoming the CEO of Diageo (DGE.L) in 2013, Ivan has been passionate about driving inclusion and diversity at the company.
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In 2020 he launched a new 10-year sustainability action plan titled ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’.
The plan laid out goals including increasing the representation of ethnic minorities in leadership positions to 45% by 2030, as well as increasing the percentage of Diageo suppliers from female and minority-owned businesses year-on-year.
2020 also saw the roll-out of a new learning intervention ‘Confronting Racial Bias Learning’, and the opening of Diageo’s fourth global ‘INC’ week; an employee-led, grassroots movement encouraging employees around the world to celebrate diversity.
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Lawyers in private practice are not just thinking about Covid. They are also engaged in the culture wars, and with a few weeks left to enter the RollOnFriday Firm of the Year 2021 Survey, it s clear that staff feel strongly about both the direction their firms have taken on progressive matters, and whether it is heartfelt.
The Trowers & Hamlins (joint 4th in FOTY 2020) management team was very responsive to the difficult conversation we have had following the brutal murder of George Floyd and the BLM movement , said a partner at the firm. We have devised a Race Action Plan which has been approved at board level and we have signed up to the Race Fairness Commitment .