Employee Initiatives
For us, inclusion means enabling each employee to make the most of their abilities and find success because of the unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives they bring to the firm. Our people are a key component of our diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) strategy and employee initiatives help bring their views to life.
- Discover the work of our DEI Champions
- Explore employee networks
- Find out about intersectionality
DEI Champions
Our global DEI Champions group brings together global employee network leaders, regional champions, and representatives from key functions to update on DEI and community activity, share best practices and give input into wider corporate and strategic decision‐making.
Between them, they connect with all parts of the firm at all levels and generate ideas as well as put them into action.
The DEI Champions meet monthly and have an active voice in designing and shaping plans.
Employee Networks
Our employee networks are global, employee-led and bring people together who share identities, interests and ambitions for personal development and DEI progress. We have networks covering gender, ethnicity, LGBTQ+, next generation, family, carers, disability, sport and wellbeing. Each employee network has its own initiatives, and networks collaborate on initiatives with other networks, business areas, external partners and community groups too. Networks are supported by executive sponsors from across the business.
Explore our employee networks
NextGen
Engaging early career professionals and encouraging them to have a collective voice on matters important to them
Thrive
Oriented around three key pillars - sports, wellbeing and disability - Thrive’s mission is to promote and facilitate a culture of health, wellness and inclusion to support all employees to thrive at work.
Together
Fostering a culture of respect and equality for everyone regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity
UNIFY
Promoting a strong understanding and respect for cultural and ethnic heritages and differences
Women
Supporting and creating opportunities for women at ICG and in the wider industry
Intersectionality
We recognise that people all have multiple, overlapping identities that may impact on their experiences in different ways.
Intersectionality is a lens through which we look to understand how different types of inequity can happen together and potentially amplify each other.
Cooperation among different groups can help solve shared problems, and so we encourage collaboration between our employee networks.
To honour Zero Discrimination Day and The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, our UNIFY Network partnered with our Together Network to host a breakfast event across seven global offices to raise awareness of sexual orientation and race-based discrimination.
