The Parker review displayed the status of racial diversity on board in the UK and set targets. Progress in appointing Directors with an ethnical background is slow and targets set by the Parker Review for the UK are missed. A group of senior leaders has come together and is committed to taking action to increase racial and ethical diversity in their businesses. What are their motives? What challenges do they face?
Welcome to the Better Boards podcast series. In this episode, Dr Sabine Dembkowski talks with Richard DeNetto from the CBI about increasing racial and ethical diversity on FTSE boards.
As our loyal listeners know, our aim is to inspire, share good practice and offer ideas about how you can create more effective and high-performing boards. Richard heads up the initiative Change the Race Ratio. He is close to the over 90 signatories and understands the challenges in initiating change.
I am Dr Sabine Dembkowski, Founder and Managing Partner of Better Boards. We make the boards of the most ambitious organisations more effective. Our mission at Better Boards is to contribute to creating better boards. We do this by providing clients with an evidence-based approach for board evaluations and board development programmes.
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Richard DeNetto was Associate Director for the CBI East of England before joining the team to launch Change the Race Ratio alongside business leaders in Aviva, Deloitte and Schroders. Richard has a track record of running people related businesses and operations across both management and director level staffing firms and as the CIPD’s Chair for Cambridgeshire and Treasurer for Mid and North Anglia.
Improving Ethnic and Racial diversity in business is personally important to Richard. Richard is of mixed ethnicity Asian and White. Is father’s side of the family are proudly Anglo Indian emigrating to the UK from India in the 60’s.
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