Yahoo Finance Diversity champion Suki Sandhu on how to build inclusive businesses
Suki Sandhu OBE is one of the UK’s most vocal champions for diversity in business.
Sandhu founded the diversity-focused executive search firm Audeliss in 2011, which focuses on making diverse, senior appointments. He went on to create the INvolve network, a membership organisation that champions diversity and inclusion.
This week, INvolve released its annual EMpower Ethnic Minority Role Model lists, celebrating the top 100 ethnic minority senior executives, 50 ethnic minority “future leaders,” and 15 “advocate” white leaders.
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Speaking to Yahoo Finance UK, Sandhu explained how INvolve came to be, after he and the team at Audeliss realised there was a gap to be filled once diverse, senior individuals had landed at an organisation.
“Yes we can help [businesses] find senior, diverse talent, but we can also help them retain, not just them, but diverse talent at all levels in their organisation through things like leadership development, cross-company mentoring, emerging leaders programmes, the lists that we publish with [Yahoo Finance UK] of the role models,” Sandhu said.
“That’s what drives us: It’s all about people and helping build inclusion”
Watch the full Sandhu interview for:
Sandhu on the importance of allies
How companies can diversify their pipeline of talent
The sectors and executives leading the way on diversity and inclusion
How any company can build an inclusive environment
Where businesses fail on diversity
Why companies should replace quotas with targets
The shift from unconscious bias training to conscious inclusion training
How non-diverse leaders can be advocates
Why senior, diverse role models “need to own” their diversity
