Casa de herrero, cuchillo de palo Legal Business ‘In the blacksmith’s house, the knives are made of wood.’ A common saying in Central America, which quite accurately encapsulates…
Foreword: DLA Piper on Diversity Legal Business When we talk about diversity, we’re referring to all the ways in which we are different – not just the…
Sandrine Devillard, director, McKinsey France Legal Business At McKinsey we have been researching this topic for the past ten years. There is still underrepresentation of women on…
Donny Ching, legal director, Shell Legal Business The strategic case At Shell, diversity and inclusion has always been part of our DNA. D&I is a competitive advantage…
Dr Claudia Junker, general counsel, Deutsche Telekom Legal Business Diversity and inclusion is a concept that is very strong within Deutsche Telekom. As early as 2010, the management board…
Lisa Kepinski, founder and director, Inclusion Institute Legal Business Taking the moral position, that diversity and inclusion are ‘the right thing to do’ has not motivated change in business.…
Barbara Levi Mager, general counsel, Sandoz Legal Business The benefits that diversity and inclusion bring to the organisation in terms of strategic thinking… it’s a completely different world.…
Alexandre Menais, executive Vice President, M&A strategy and corporate development, Atos Legal Business Atos is strongly convinced about the importance of diversity as a key value driver for the group’s future continuous growth…
Ian Johnson, Founder, Out Now Legal Business In our business there are always two discussions around the motivation for creating a workplace that is inclusive of LGBT…
Dawn Lannin, Vice President of Legal for Europe and Central Asia, Total Legal Business Total’s diversity and inclusion strategy is predominantly internally driven. For many years we’ve recognised that it is not only the…
Juergen Reul, general counsel, BMW Legal Business Gender diversity Gender is an obvious diversity issue for us as a company that primarily employs engineers, and therefore is…
Nia Joynson-Romanzina, founder and director, iCubed Legal Business The business case Diversity and inclusion improves excellence in execution and risk management, and it gives strategic advantage. It improves…
Miral Hamani-Samaan, director of M&A, corporate transactions and international governance, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Legal Business ROLE MODELS My mother is a lawyer and all through my youth, during the summertime, I would work as an…
Farrah Qureshi, CEO, Global Diversity Practice Legal Business ln Europe, diversity and inclusion takes on a cultural dimension – around identity, national culture, and languages. In the early…
Lena Ernlund Malmberg, former head of legal IP, Nilfisk Legal Business ‘Diversity’ can become a pop phenomenon, a buzzword. What you need to do, if you are going to talk about…
Benedikte Leroy, Vice President and EMEA general counsel, Dell Legal Business At Dell, we believe that we can serve our customers better by reflecting them, and we also believe that if…
Kirsty Cooper, group general counsel, Aviva Legal Business Diversity and inclusion is about having a diverse workforce and team, but it is also about being inclusive, not just…
Ana Isabel Montero Corbin, legal director, Japan Tobacco International Legal Business At JTI, we perceive inclusion and diversity as talent management, and believe that what makes a company is having the…
Tinna Nielsen, founder, Move the Elephant for Inclusiveness Legal Business Global statistics, collected by global analytics group Gallup, say that only 13% of people worldwide are engaged in their jobs,…
Shaping diversity: part one Legal Business The diversity of European diversity Europeans know a thing or two about diversity. After all, a neighbour in the next…
