Equality Group

01/11/2022

Join us in our series of 30-minute webinars within November 14th-18th on LinkedIn Live. You will hear Equality Group experts sharing key, practical steps that you should be taking to develop on EDI. Take this opportunity to find answers to your questions and solutions to the challenges you are facing. Click on the link in our bio to register.

09/03/2022

Yesterday we launch our annual Inclusive PE & VC Index - a comprehensive evaluation tool that analyses fund performance on inclusion, diversity and equity over the past 12 months. You can read the full report here:
https://www.equality.group/research?hsLang=en 

Congratulations to all the top 10 PE firms: International EQT Group Hg Investcorp TowerBrook Capital Partners L.P. The Carlyle Group KKR & Co. Inc. VistaEquityPartners

And all the top 10 VC firms: Kinnevik Bethnal Green Ventures Atomico Anthemis Group BGF General Catalyst Blossom Capital HSBC

28/01/2022

"I think in an industry where people are incentivised financially to achieve targets and if leadership are taking this seriously, they should be linking incentives to diversity and inclusion targets"

Equality Group's CEO Hephzi Pemberton, author of The Diversity Playbook, discusses linking pay to diversity targets at FN100 Most Influential Women in Finance event: shorturl.at/dkA34

Regulators suggest links between pay and diversity targets would help drive accountability and incentivise progress

20/01/2022

The Equality Group Inclusive Index is a comprehensive tool for measuring diversity and inclusion within organisations. It allows you to benchmark yourself against similar organisations and understand how well you are communicating your diversity and inclusion efforts externally.

To make sure that your organisation ranks as highly as possible as we embark on scoring throughout January, make sure that:

- Your commitment and approach to diversity and inclusion is clear and easily found on your website
- You are transparent about where leadership stands on the topic
- You communicate your key policies explicitly
- Information about your company’s gender pay gap is available
- You have a publicly viewable social media profile

To learn more about the methodology behind the scoring as well as find more information on what you can do to ensure you score highly, please email [email protected]

22/12/2021

As this year draws to a close, we would like to take this opportunity to reflect and look forward.

Being reflective is a big part of our business as it helps us to connect and share as a team our aspirations, life challenges, growing moments and achievements. This year some of those have been:

- Growing our Equality Group team - onboarding exceptional talent, building new relationships and working together on exhilarating mandates
- Launching our Inclusive Index and scoring over 300 PE & VC firms
- The Diversity Playbook, written by our CEO Hephzi Pemberton, became an Amazon bestseller in the International Business and Finance category
- We have placed incredible candidates out of which 84.6% were Female and 38.5% were Ethnic Minorities
- Consulted funds with a combined AUM of £256 bn

As we look into the New Year, we feel excited about the upcoming projects and mandates but more so, we feel privileged and grateful to have the opportunity to work with exceptional clients, impressive candidates and to build a more diverse and inclusive industry.

We hope that you find joy and peace during this holiday period.

16/12/2021

For every child a working American woman has, her salary goes down by 4%. To combat such inequalities, firms should introduce positive policies and thereby lay the foundation for an inclusive environment. Have you laid all the foundation stones in your business yet? Find out at https://www.equality.group/the-diversity-playbook-chapter-nine

Positive policies are the firm foundations of an inclusive business.  Policies serve a vital purpose in supporting and protecting an  organisation and its people. They create boundaries for acceptable  behaviour within the workplace, and serve as a guideline for best  practice in particular work...

13/12/2021

Recruiting diverse employees can be challenging, retaining them sometimes even more so. Many organizations lose talent due to a “leaky pipeline” and invisible glass ceilings. Our new blog article discusses how to shatter any glass ceiling and lower the attrition rate of diverse talent. https://www.equality.group/the-diversity-playbook-chapter-eight

Once you have built a diverse team, the last thing you want is to lose  them. Unfortunately, this happens at many companies. The “leaky  pipeline” is a challenge across all industries. Multiple research studies  have shown starkly higher attrition rates among underrepresented  groups, especi...

10/12/2021

If you want your diversity strategy to become reality, you need to have the right incentives in place. Ongoing engagement from leadership and middle-management is essential. All too often, however, organizations struggle with activating accountability. Here’s how you can achieve it: https://www.equality.group/the-diversity-playbook-chapter-seven

When you want your inclusion and diversity strategy to become a  reality you need the right incentives in place. Focus on the carrots  that will motivate everyone in the organisation to drive inclusive  actions. Reserve the sticks for worst case scenarios. All too often  there is a blaming and s...

09/12/2021

Do you work as a founder or investor in the start-up ecosystem and are keen to accelerate your career? The Newton Venture Program has made it its mission to make the venture ecosystem more diverse, inclusive, and accessible. Find out more about its VC Fellowship and VC Fundamentals program here:

Training the tech investors of the future to back the companies of tomorrow Our Vision: By 2030 venture investors will be 50% people from overlooked and underestimated groups Join our community Applications are now open Apply to VC fundamentals Apply to VC Fellowship Applications will open on 17th N...

06/12/2021

An unconscious bias training is great, yet insufficient for increasing diversity. Our founder and CEO Hephzi Pemberton argues that diversity and inclusion can only be improved when a number of targeted strategies are applied together. Read more on how to take purposeful action at https://www.equality.group/the-diversity-playbook-chapter-six

The spirit of inclusion is about action. The welcome words and  the data gathering agenda are essential first steps. The expert  choreography is in the strategy you create, the roadmap you put in  place and the engagement across the whole business. This chapter  will explore the most robust incl...