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Diversity & Inclusion
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Diversity & Inclusion in Fashion 2023
Diversity and Inclusion in Fashion, produced in partnership with British Fashion Council, looks in depth at how diverse our sector’s leadership teams are in 2023, and explores if fashion companies are adequately...
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D&I activity is not yet translating into meaningful change…
Only a few short years ago, it was very hard to engage most retail leaders in diversity and inclusion: D&I simply wasn’t top of the corporate agenda. Few businesses had D&I strategies, there was poor data on...
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Launching the Women to Watch and Role Models for…
Perhaps my biggest lesson from my decade at The MBS Group is how dramatically emerging leaders are shaped by role models throughout their career. Having someone to model yourself against can be transformative, providing...
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Tracking progress on diversity and inclusion in UK retail…
Tracking progress on diversity and inclusion in UK retail 2023, produced in partnership with BRC, measures how diverse and inclusive businesses in UK retail are. Our report draws on MBS research – which encompasses...
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It takes an employer: how addressing childcare can unlock…
For the first time in a long time, childcare is back on the UK political agenda. Just under three weeks ago, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the biggest expansion of free childcare that England has ever seen, promising...
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Inspiring action and proving what’s possible: launching the Women…
One of the highlights of the MBS calendar is the launch of the annual Women to Watch and Role Models for Inclusion in Hospitality, Travel and Leisure Index, produced in partnership with WiHTL. Regular readers of this...
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Celebrating progress and maintaining momentum: The WiHTL and DiR…
It is hard to believe that it has been five years since we first partnered with WiHTL, with the aim of driving diversity and inclusion in the hospitality, travel and leisure sectors. Back then, as we researched our...
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A positive attitude to age – a new diversity…
Never has the phase ‘diversity is a solution, not a problem to solve’ been more pertinent than in today’s labour market. In the UK, nearly 500,000 people have left the workforce since the pandemic, and job...
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Legacy and the Lionesses: how can we make England’s…
Until 2012, I had never been to watch athletics before. I, like many others, got carried away on the wave of the Olympics and the positive atmosphere that permeated London. As a family we went to see many races, bit the...
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