Partners & Supporters
Many thanks to the following organisations who have pledged their support to Diversity Network
and are working hard to make working life better for all:
Biasproof
BiasProof identifies areas of unconscious bias within your company. While the topic of diversity and inclusion (D&I) isn’t new, advancing workplace diversity is more important today than ever before. Consumers are taking their business to companies with a proven commitment to D&I. A growing number of laws and requirements are being enacted to support greater diversity in the workplace. Employees are looking to leadership to make a difference. Organizations must evolve or risk a shrinking candidate pool, reduced market share, and ultimately, lost profitability.
Black Women in Clinical Research
Black Women In Clinical Research (BWICR) was created by Danielle Mitchell in 2019. BWICR is a network of black women who are interested in a career in clinical research or currently working in the industry. We come together to educate, empower, support, and help black women thrive in the clinical research industry.
BPIC Network
BPIC Network serves as an inclusion hub in the built environment, operating both as a network and consultancy. They foster collaboration with individuals and industry organizations, working collectively to enhance representation and advocate for inclusion best practices.
BPIC’s consultancy services encompass talent acquisition, career advancement, inclusion guidance, social value, and curated networking events. This support is made possible by their team of subject matter experts, each excelling in their respective fields. Together, they are dedicated to shaping an industry that thrives on diversity and provides meaningful opportunities for those currently engaged or aspiring to contribute to its dynamic landscape.
Buttress Architects
Buttress Architects are architects, place makers, interior designers, and historic building advocates. They are cyclists, runners, culture vultures, and coffee connoisseurs.
Buttress believe that they are at our best when they approach design as a collective, collaborative process together.
Career Returners
Career Returners (previously Women Returners) is a purpose-led consulting, coaching and network organisation, founded in 2014, which works with employers, career returners and government to enable professionals to return to suitable-level roles after an extended career break. Their mission is to remove the Career Break Penalty.
They have partnered with over 170 leading employers across sectors, supported many thousands of professionals to return to work and delivered several large-scale funded employability programmes. They are a social business. Their Career Returners Professional Network provides free advice, information and support to our 9,000-strong member community.
Clerksroom
In 21 years, Clerksroom has grown from two Barristers and one Clerk with an idea to a nationwide network of 200 barristers, 500+ independent mediators and 33 clerks. They sought to re-visual the traditional Chambers to make it innovative, inclusive, agile and sustainable. Today, 21,000 solicitors are registered with Clerksroom, and they book 1,500 final hearings per month, clearly demonstrating how an original approach can successfully revolutionise the delivery of legal services.
They provide our barristers with a level of autonomy and transparency they did not have at more traditional chambers and give them the power and support to manage and develop their legal practice. They’ve removed the committees, politics, expensive overheads and liabilities and replaced them with equality, efficiency, opportunity and award-winning technology that makes everyone’s lives easier.
CoachHub
CoachHub is your trusted global talent development platform. They enable behavioural change with world class coaching delivered through our state-of-the-art digital platform. Every day, they reinvent people development to support individual, collective and organisational transformation.
Their global pool of over 3,500 certified businesses in 90 countries offer coaching sessions in over 80 languages to more than 1,000 enterprise clients across six continents and are supported by their international team of over 400 dedicated CoachHubbers. They provide personalised, one-on-one coaching at scale with an AI-enabled technology platform that offers a simple and elegant user experience and a seamless coaching journey.
Cura Insurance
Cura specialise in finding protection insurance for people who are seen to be high risk, quirky or non-standard. They ‘insure the uninsurable’ and they fight for fairer terms and access to insurance for everybody.
Their team have provided insurance advice since 2005 and have helped many individuals secure insurance policies who have previously been turned away by other brokers as ‘uninsurable’. They pride themselves on finding the right insurance products for our clients where others cannot.
Cyber-Duck
Cyber-Duck creates life-enhancing services, products, and experiences that empower people, teams and organisations through strategic, systems thinking, human-centred design and robust technology and marketing implementation.
Cyber-Duck’s mission is to bridge the gap between design, technology and content to create life-enhancing services, products, and user experiences that empower people, deliver change and bring prosperity to all. This mission has fuelled their growth to become a diverse, globally based team of over 100 people, working on complex digital and service challenges for governments, major organisations and businesses around the world.
This passion to unleash the power of technology to meet human needs is the driving force behind everything they do, how they behave and underpins their pioneering accredited approach, The Cyber-Duck Way. Cyber-Duck’s entrepreneurial, inclusive, human-centred culture prizes delivering great work while being great to work with, whatever the changing circumstances.
Dentons
Across over 80 countries, Dentons Law Firm helps its clients grow, protect, operate and finance your organization by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal solutions.
Polycentric, purpose-driven and committed to inclusion, diversity, equity and sustainability, they focus on what matters most to their clients.
Elevated Coaching & Consulting
Elevated Coaching & Consulting believe in the power of transformation through evolved coaching and consulting strategies that put people at the heart of everything.
They are more than just a coaching and consulting LLC; Elevated Coaching & Consulting is your dedicated partner with a passion for propelling you toward unparalleled success through elevating business practices and empowering leadership. Their collaborative approach ensures that your unique goals and aspirations are at the heart of our strategy development.
Evenbreak
Evenbreak exists to solve a couple of big problems. Employers told them that they struggled to attract disabled candidates. And disabled candidates told them that they couldn’t tell which employers were inclusive. So, they joined the dots and created what we believe to be the UK’s most accessible job board to connect the two.
The employers who advertise on Evenbreak are actively aiming to attract disabled candidates… and the registered candidates want to work for inclusive companies.
Fertility Network UK
Fertility Network UK provides free and impartial support, advice, information and understanding for anyone affected by fertility issues.
They are the UK’s leading patient-focused fertility charity and are there on a practical and emotional level to offer support services, information and access to a community of people affected by fertility problems.
Harrington Starr
Harrington Starr is a multi-award winning financial technology recruitment business based in London, Belfast and New York City. Founded in 2010, we are specialists in technology, change & transformation and sales recruitment, and they have helped clients and candidates across the globe.
Their diverse range of clients include banks, hedge funds, vendors, service providers, payment providers, asset managers, start-ups, and an array of renowned industry disruptors. The one thing they have in common is that they trust Harrington Starr with their most important asset: people.
Johnson & Johnson
At Johnson & Johnson, health is everything. Their strength in healthcare innovation empowers them to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated and cured, treatments are smarter and less invasive and solutions are personal.
Lexxic
Lexxic is a specialist psychological consultancy. They believe that all minds belong, and that it is their mission to inspire a world that supports and values the talents of neurodivergent minds, empowering individuals to be their best selves.
They partner with organisations and members of the public to make a positive difference; creating Neurodiversity Smart® workplace cultures, high impact programmes and delivering psychological support services to neurodivergent talent.
Moore Barlow LLP
Moore Barlow’s mission is to help a wide variety of clients through the opportunities, the challenges, and the sometimes life-altering circumstances that may come your way. Whether you need advice concerning a business or require support for you and your family, their solicitors can offer a bespoke service that meets your needs.
For them, it is all about starting a conversation and building a relationship with clients, so that they are more than just a ‘firm’ and a ‘client’. By understanding what’s at stake, be that as a business, organisation, or as an individual, they apply a personalised approach and the highest standards of care.
Murphy Group
Murphy is a leading international, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 that operates in the United Kingdom, Ireland and North America. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; power and water. Headquartered in London, Murphy has a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment and facilities.
Murphy employs around 3,600 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, they work as ‘One Murphy’ – directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success.
National Grid
National Grid is an energy company operating in the UK and US. They deliver electricity and gas safely, reliably and efficiently to the customers and communities they serve – all while working towards a clean energy future.
National Grid lies at the heart of a transforming energy system. Their business areas play a vital role in connecting millions of people to the energy they use, while continually seeking ways to make the energy system cleaner. National Grid Ventures and National Grid Partners also enable innovations to help revolutionise and decarbonise the future of energy.
NAWIC
NAWIC is an international not-for-profit association dedicated to the advancement of women in the construction industry.
Their aim is to support women in construction through their careers, to celebrate and platform their accomplishments, to make a lasting positive impact on the construction industry, and to inspire the next generation of women into construction related roles.
They organise site visits, networking events, socials, topical industry seminars, workshops for personal development, business know-how and more, all of which provide opportunities for our members and allies to meet other construction professionals in a formalised yet relaxed and friendly environment.
Nomad Digital
Nomad Digital is a world leading provider of passenger and fleet management solutions to the transport industry.
They offer a broad solutions portfolio to both train operators and builders that facilitates a significantly enhanced passenger experience with seamless connectivity, real-time journey information and on-board entertainment. Improved fleet availability and operational efficiencies can also be achieved with our real-time monitoring solutions providing key data insights for operations and maintenance.
They have achieved success through innovation, skilled people and hard work. Their international impact is made possible by our people. They strive for creativity and learning and remain committed to investing in and supporting amazing technology.
Personio
Personio’s mission is to give HR teams time to focus on what really matters: people. They help automate people processes and free up time for more strategic work, enabling HR to go beyond HR.
Since they started their journey, they’ve helped 10,000 HR teams across Europe focus less on admin and more on people.
Philip Morris International
PMI is a leading international tobacco company working to deliver a smoke-free future, while also evolving its portfolio to include products outside of the tobacco and nicotine sector.
PMI’s current product portfolio primarily consists of cigarettes and smoke-free products, including heated tobacco, e-vapor, and oral smokeless products. By 2030, PMI’s ambition is to increase that figure to over two-thirds, with the ultimate goal of phasing out cigarettes completely. Leveraging scientific expertise and technological capabilities, they are also committed to developing new products in the wellness and healthcare space.
RSA Insurance
RSA is one of the world’s longest-serving general insurance companies. They serve in excess of 9 million customers around the world. You may know them through a broker, one of their insurance brands, or one of their UK retail partners, such as John Lewis, Nationwide or Tesco.
Since becoming part of Intact Financial Corporation in 2021, they are determined to do even more to support our customers. They are optimising their operations, investing in new technology and finding better ways to help protect customers.
RW3 CultureWizard
RW3 CultureWizard has helped hundreds of companies and over 5 million employees around the world to develop the inclusive collaborative environments that organizations need to drive outstanding business results. The CultureWizard and DiversityWizard Platforms are replete with award-winning self-directed learning courses, information assets, outstanding learning models and assessment tools that personalize learning.
In addition to the platform, RW3 provides clients with tailored instructor-led training programs and coaching, as well as Global Analytics services that utilize key employee behavior data to help organizations tailor programs specific to the organization’s identified needs. RW3 CultureWizard has a worldwide network of researchers, writers, global inclusion and cultural experts, as well as offices in New York, Los Angeles, and London.
SAP SuccessFactors
A vital part of SAP since 2012, SAP SuccessFactors solutions can help you optimise cloud human experience management (HXM) – the new people-focused term for HCM. Their HXM suite lets you provide employees with experiences that recognise their individual value and consistently motivate them to achieve peak performance levels.
SAP SuccessFactors Human Experience Management Suite focuses on what employees need in order to do and be their best. It shifts from human capital management (HCM) – and its processes, steps, and procedures – to individualised experiences designed to keep employees happy, productive, engaged, and improving.
State Street
Servicing nearly 10 percent* of the world’s assets, State Street gives asset managers and owners, insurance companies, official institutions and central banks access to an exclusive perspective on how markets are trending — helping them stay ahead of change — and a breadth of products and services to drive business performance.
They are focused on optimizing for today while solving for where the industry and our clients are headed. Whether creating the first open ecosystem to connect the investment lifecycle, exploring more secure and stable ways to approach tokenization, offering electronic trading platforms, or helping shepherd the ETF industry from launch to its current status as a US $6 trillion industry, they have their eyes on what’s next.
Texthelp
Texthelp create digital tools for inclusive working and learning; tools to help everyone understand and be understood. Their tools are trusted by over 200 million people worldwide. These tools support children in education, understand and work alongside their peers. The same tools help adults with dyslexia in the workplace to complete tasks, and communicate with their colleagues.
By 2030, Texthelp want to have advanced the literacy and understanding of 1 billion people around the world.
The Equity Equation LLC
The Equity Equation helps organisations design and curate inclusive environments where all team members and populations feel valued, seen, heard, and connected. At The Equity Equation, you get the support and skillset to develop a change in your company culture, from improving your governance structure to workflow process.
Their approach to workplace culture is built on centering equity within workplaces and guiding inclusion strategies. By giving a voice to the voiceless in your organisation, you improve feelings of inclusion, leading to a high-performance culture. Working within all levels of your organisation, they can work with you to build out a strategic framework from the foundation up.
The Female Factor
It’s time for a new era of leaders: Leaders who demonstrate self-awareness, empowerment, high levels of emotional intelligence and a collaborative mindset. The Female Factor believe that by embracing their innately feminine power, their “female factors” such as empathy, intuition and compassion, women will step up, leading our world for the better.
They are a global community for a new era of female leaders enabling them to get their seat at the table by boosting confidence, competence & connections. They support these female leaders through mentoring, networking and our career programs.
In 2020, they started to connect fantastic companies such as Google, BCG, Mondi, Bank Austria and many more with our female talents. In 2021, they proudly launched Europe’s first job platform matching female talents with inclusive companies.
Trowers & Hamlins
Trowers is an international law firm with over 170 partners and more than 1000 people located across the UK, Middle East and Asia.
During their long history, they have held fast to the values and characteristics – such as service, quality, integrity and innovation – that have made them not only a leading law firm, but an inclusive and exciting place to work and establish a career. Some 240 years on, these attributes remain solidly embedded in their culture and their ways of working.
They are well known for being experts in the sectors their clients work in and getting to the crux of the issues they face. This gives them the best foundations to extend their thinking beyond the day to day delivery of transactional and advisory legal services and provide their clients with fresh thinking and commercially-driven solutions.
Visier
Visier is an HR analytics platform that offers cloud-based solutions for workforce analytics and workforce planning. At 600 employees and 7 office locations, Visier continues to expand globally.
They are headquartered in beautiful Vancouver, BC where they embrace a hybrid culture that is about optimising for the energy and community created by togetherness. As a global employer, they also have team members who work fully remote and create programs and networks to promote inclusion and belonging.
Volunteer Vision
Volunteer Vision’s focus lies on the professional empowerment of people from all diversity groups, within and outside of companies. Their goal is to counteract inequalities and promote a culture of belonging. To do this, they have developed the world’s leading online mentoring platform: Using their proprietary software and rich learning content, they enable 1:1 mentoring that supports people in their professional and personal development.
Watkins & Gunn
Watkins & Gunn are a law firm that champions jargon-free legal advice with innovative solutions that work for their clients. They are a values-driven law firm and have all worked together to define the values that represent them and how they do business. encourage equality of opportunity and respect for diversity. They are committed to avoiding discrimination in dealings with clients, Partners, employees and all other third parties and in carrying out all of their professional activities.
Winway Group
Winway is an independent Construction Mechanical and Electrical Services specialist, with an excellent track record in both the public and private sectors. Providing flexible, high quality services and solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of each client.
They are proud of their growing reputation for delivering high quality, while maintaining a straightforward and enjoyable project experience, to ensure that each project is successfully delivered on time, to budget, and to expectations, regardless of the scale and complexity.
Workjam
WorkJam provides a digital workforce management platform. The company offers mobile schedule communication, shift and task management, messaging, training, assessments, surveys, polls, employee recognition, and reviews services. WorkJam serves customers worldwide.
Zurich Insurance
Zurich is a leading multi-line insurer serving people and businesses in more than 200 countries and territories. Founded 150 years ago, Zurich is transforming insurance. In addition to providing insurance protection, Zurich is increasingly offering prevention services such as those that promote wellbeing and enhance climate resilience.
