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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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Raj Tulsiani, CEO & Co-Founder
“Over the next decade, leaders in every sector will face a growing challenge: workforce asymmetry.”
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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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Jo Sweetland, Managing Director
"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.”
When we decided to embark on the groundbreaking research project, The Colour of Power, we expected our findings to be bleak, yet an uncomfortable truth can, in time, become a great potential asset.
With ever-increasing economic uncertainty, Britain’s business sectors are in chaos and are seriously in need of the best talent for the top jobs. However, the talent pool is not being studied deeply enough and tends to only pick out the already dominant, favoured group of white males, whose advantages are protected by “Identity politics”.
The purpose of The Colour of Power is not to knock brilliant white men, but to demonstrate that the talent pool could be even bigger if we just opened the pathways to the top jobs to all those who exhibit valuable talent. A change in the ethos of society and those placed in the top jobs in the country increase the rate of Britain’s success, but do we have the will?
The Colour of Power is a visual index of the UK’s top jobs compiled by OBV and Green Park, that finds out of the 1,049 individuals in positions of power in the UK just 36 are BME, or 3.4% of the total.
Written by Simon Woolley, director and one of the founders of Operation Black Vote, this article was published by The Guardian on Monday 25th September 2017. To read the full Guardian article, click here.
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