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Please keep in touch and enable us to share interesting diversity insights with you

By Simon Fanshawe On May 14, 2018 · Add Comment · In blog
We want to keep in touch with you. All the time Roy and I have thoughts, come across articles and meet and work with clients who are doing interesting things in diversity. And every so often we want to share this with you. Please choose to stay in touch by registering or updating your settings. [...]
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PRIDE – Brighton 2016. My speech at the Pride Breakfast

By Simon Fanshawe On August 8, 2016 · Add Comment · In blog
Paul Kemp, the organiser of Pride asked me to speak at the Pride Breakfast on Saturday 6th August. This was what I said “It’s almost 50 years since gay relationships in England and Wales emerged from the national shame of criminal sanction. And it took another 15 years until Scotland and Northern Ireland experienced the [...]
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The PM says we need to shake up Company governance – we agree!

By Simon Fanshawe On July 20, 2016 · Add Comment · In blog
THE WORKING CLASS ON BOARDS – NOW THAT WOULD BE DIVERSITY Theresa May, in her first campaign speech, which about an hour later unexpectedly became her last campaign speech, promised a shake-up of Company governance in the UK with the words: “I want to see changes in the way that big business is governed. The [...]
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Our thoughts on Brexit and the work we do on diversity

By Simon Fanshawe On July 10, 2016 · Add Comment · In blog
A number of our clients have asked Roy and I what is our view about the future of the work we do with you on diversity, in the changed context of Brexit. Initial reactions Well firstly we should tell you that, in many, many conversations over the last couple of weeks with clients and colleagues, [...]
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Why waste time whistling from the scaffolding when you could be more diverse and win contracts

By Simon Fanshawe On October 17, 2013 · Add Comment · In blog
I had an interesting challenge the other day. I was asked to speak to 350 people in the construction trade. They were mostly men and by the time I spoke they were all still standing up after two previous speeches. And the topic … equality and diversity in construction. Have you hear builders snore in [...]
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What Sussex taught me—lessons from a soon to be ex-Chair on governance

By Simon Fanshawe On October 17, 2013 · Add Comment · In blog
This was an article in the FT in May 2013: There are times when those of us who live non-exec lives wonder whether we really make any difference at all. And then we all remember the ABN Amro fiasco. What on earth were the NEDs of RBS and Fortis doing? They weren’t stupid people and [...]
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Why appointing Dame Clara Furse as the first woman to the Bank of England is not a sign of diversity

By Simon Fanshawe On October 17, 2013 · Add Comment · In blog
Clara Furse has been in banking one way or another all her working life. She was the first woman to run the stock exchange. She ran one of the other Exchanges before that. She was an MD at UBS, the bank. And she is an all round superwoman in finance. And now she is the [...]
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