Diversity & Inclusion
We have a responsibility to lead the way
Overview
Since inception, we have contributed to and observed the evolution of technology and digital businesses playing an increasingly powerful role in driving behaviour change, helping to foster sustainable, diverse, and inclusive leadership teams.
Being at the forefront of a disruptive talent marketplace that spans industries, geographies, and cultures enables us to understand the importance and nuances of diversity of thought.
We recognise the issues and opportunities presented by the innate and evolving nature of diversity linked to a broad range of characteristics including but, not limited to, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, cross-cultural perspective, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and age.
Inclusive search process
We challenge clients on the diversity of their board and leadership teams and partner with them to develop strategies to improve the diversity of their team.
Our thorough briefing processes ensure we understand our clients’ unique priorities and specific diversity goals, partnering to achieve them at the non-executive and C-suite level. We guide our clients on the benefits of innovative and inclusive search strategies and provide unique insight into the market.
This upfront investment enables the Team to leverage our networks, industry expertise, functional knowledge and exclusive international database ensuring candidate pools are wide-reaching.
Commitment to our network
Through our Digital Masters programme, we carefully curate bespoke events fostering inclusive networks such as women on boards, groups of digitally-focused multi-cultural executives, and women in tech to learn from each other and make valuable long-term connections.
Inclusive one team approach
At Up, we create a sense of belonging and a nurturing environment, where everyone can do their best work enabling all employees to grow, learn and develop. We recruit from the widest possible talent pools by removing bias from processes and ensure diversity and inclusion are embedded within our practices and activities. We have also focused on creating an impactful employee value proposition that appeals to people from different backgrounds, with wide-ranging individualities, who’ve had diverse life experiences.
Engaging the entire Team in all its diversity is part of The Up Group’s foundations. With a diverse team, we can tackle challenges collaboratively and empower individuality and different perspectives.