Solution

We designed and delivered a wide-reaching programme to support high potential ethnic minority employees to become successful leaders with the active support of their line managers, peers and leaders within a professional services firm in its UK and Ireland practice.

Our programme comprised experiential workshops, coaching for inclusive culture change, webinars, online learning resources, allies sessions and working dinners across the business. Our focus was on an integrated inclusive culture transformation based on applying the behavioural sciences evidence-based on leading self, others and the business with diversity and inclusion.

We designed and delivered webinars for allies and line managers on building a personal case for inclusive culture change and increasing capacity to have developmental discussions about race and careers at work.

Impact

• We increased authentic leader identities and engagement leading to higher retention of ethnic minority future leaders.
  • In leading themselves, others and the business, participants improved relative to their earlier scores by an average of 20 percentage points.
  • Participants have also overtaken the comparison group (from being lower by an average of seven percentage points to being higher by an average of 12 percentage points).
• There have been improvements in inclusive culture change behaviours in allies.
• There has been large-scale cross department collaboration on culture change with respect to diversifying top talent and race confidence in the business.
• Business race fluency has increased by engaging over 300 people in conversations about race in the workplace.