9 April 2024
Green Park wins Inclusivity Initiative of the Year at the Corporate LiveWire Global Awards.
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Jo Sweetland, Managing Director
“A global talent advisory firm, Green Park is an industry pioneer in building diverse, senior leadership teams and more equitable workplace cultures.”
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Jo Heath, Managing Partner and Head of DICE
“Championing Diversity & Inclusion since our inception, we are driven by the core belief that there’s no shortage of talent, only opportunity.”
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Kai Adams, Managing Partner
“We deliver sustainable business value on a global scale to help organisations bring the future into focus.”
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Trevor Phillips, Chair
"Our clients benefit from our data-rich insights into what will drive productivity today and continue innovation through turbulence tomorrow.”
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Colin Salmon, Chair of the Green Park Foundation
“Through the Foundation, Green Park aim to deliver £1million of social value per annum to improving children lives and creating a more sustainable, equitable world”
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David Needham, Managing Partner
"Our candidate care lasts long past the point of placement and is key to the rich relationships we build from a foundation of trust, authenticity, transparency and inclusion."
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Raj Tulsiani, CEO & Co-Founder
“We founded Green Park in 2006 with a mission to change the face of leadership. We retain that same passion and entrepreneurial spirit today as when we started.”
According to a global survey of retail chairs, CEOs and senior executives, released by Green Park and the World Retail Congress, many top teams across the sector are "not fit for purpose.”
The DNA of Future Retail Leadership, released at the World Retail Congress, reveals:
- Only 36% of respondents feel their company’s leadership team is moving fast enough to keep up with changing consumer behaviour
- Just 27% believe their leadership team has the digital expertise necessary for success in the future
- Just 26% feel their leadership team has the necessary expertise in data and analytics for success in future
- 56% believe their leadership team is not diverse enough to properly reflect their customers
- 75% believe that their leadership team is most comfortable managing their individual functional silos but struggles to manage end-to-end processes
This follows on from The DNA of the Future Retail CEO, released in 2015, which found that most retail CEOs lacked the attributes and skills they needed to prosper - and that the gap would spread within their leadership teams over time. Following today's survey many concur that these previous warnings were accurate and the sector is now suffering from a crisis in leadership, due to:
- A failure of leadership, in particular, an inability to adapt to the rapid changes to consumer behaviour brought about through technological change
- A failure of culture, with a functional, siloed set-up within leadership teams which is clearly unsuited to providing a seamless experience for customers who want to engage across multiple channels and touchpoints
- A lack of diversity within the top team, leading to less insight and focus on customer demands from a younger and rapidly diversifying consumer demographic
- A failure of skills with many retailers with a store-based legacy in particular struggling to implement transformational changes to make them more competitive against newer, pure-play companies with completely different attitudes to risk and innovation
This article was published in Drapers on the 14th of May, 2019. To read the full article please click here.
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