Creating safe forums and ways in which to listen to our teams is key to understanding the diverse communities within our offices. In each of our regions of operation, we have DE&I Regional Champions who are connected at a local level to our teams. Our Champions organize and facilitate a range of Employee Voice Forums which we use to inform our policies and improve our workplace. They also host local DE&I groups and events which foster and promote DE&I initiatives and values.
How we connect and understand each other forms the basis of our relationships, and as a relationship based business we see this as a key element to driving our DE&I strategy. Learning programs, story sharing and themed events which build awareness and educate our teams are ways in which we build understanding and educate our people.
Creating policy that builds and protects our teams is fundamental to driving change, as it governs the way in which we attract and keep our people. We work to ensure our policies consider every member of the team in an equal way, provide the same opportunities and align with global best practice.
We are building a diverse and inclusive organization founded on the basis of having a safe culture which enables all of our people to be their true selves. Our culture is what makes us different. It defines us, it guides us in how we behave, it energizes us and motivates our teams. We are a people business and relationships within our teams and with our clients are hugely important to us. We recognize that without diversity we cannot be a diverse organization and we strive for balance in every one of our offices around the world. To create and foster this culture and provide our teams and industry peers with evidence of our progress, three core DE&I pillars have been identified to focus our strategy.