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"Now we're really living it": Heidrick & Struggles on DE&I

Heidrick & Struggles is amplifying employee voice to bring diversity to the fore in its organisation, and focusing on "reminding leaders" in its clients about DE&I benefits, a managing partner says.

"It's become a really important agenda item for us that used to be talked about and maybe dreamed a little bit about, but now we're really living it," says Graham Kittle, managing partner at Heidrick & Struggles Australia.

"We've hired a DE&I leader globally, who has a real voice and is very much an important part of our global leadership team. She's very active in making sure that we're setting the strategy but also living it locally."

For example, Heidrick & Struggles has rolled out pulse surveys every two months to measure how the business is tracking on DE&I, among other aspects of employee sentiment...