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08:40 Online networking
09:05 Chair’s opening remarks
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09:10 Using socio-economic pay gap data to inform your social mobility strategy
- Why making socio-economic inequality visible is core to Co-op’s purpose and wider business strategy
- How to measure socio-economic background and engage colleagues to share data
- How reporting has enabled Co-op to double down on its Social Mobility Plan – delivering more mentoring programmes, financial wellbeing support and an intersectionality development programme to help address barriers affecting multiple characteristics
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09:30 Social mobility: Navigating the path between two worlds
In this session, Joanne will share insights from her doctorate research and professional experience to explore the complex realities of social mobility. Offering both provocation and practical takeaways for organisations committed to inclusion, Joanne will reflect on:
- How privilege intersects with race, gender, and class in the workplace
- The unspoken rules and hidden barriers faced by those navigating different socio-economic realities
- What intentional inclusion looks like, and how employers can create environments where everyone has the opportunity to thrive
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09:50 Creating and embedding an essential skills pathway for employees from less advantaged backgrounds
- How the Skills Builder Partnership has supported Sky in developing an essential skills framework addressing barriers to career progression for those from disadvantaged backgrounds
- Launching a self-assessment toolkit and embedding soft and data fluency skills throughout the workforce
- Insights and lessons learned on the journey so far
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10:10 How a social mobility network has built a socio-economic workplace action plan
- Obtaining data to drive change – considering employee voices, lived experience, sensitivity of topic
- Getting senior level buy-in so you can make the required changes
- Examples of social mobility campaigns that have had the most impact
- Learnings to date
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Maree Moore
Associate Director Organisational Learning, Talent & Inclusion GB
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners
10:30 Live audience questions and answers
11:00 Break and online networking
11:30 Empowering and removing barriers for diverse young talent entering the workplace
In this session, Geoffrey will share his experience working with young people globally from different backgrounds. Topics he will discuss include:
- Burberry’s partnership with The BRIT School aimed at getting young people from diverse and lower socio-economic backgrounds into the fashion industry – learnings, outcomes and successes
- Helping teenagers develop entrepreneurial spirit, agility and flexibility, character, self-esteem and good mental health
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Geoffrey Williams
former Global Vice President Colleague Attraction & Inclusion, Burberry
11:50 Taking a three-pronged approach to your social mobility inclusion strategy
- Guiding principles – getting in, getting on, belonging
- Working with external partners to bring in talent; example, Ignite programme
- Understanding what the extrinsic and intrinsic barriers are and breaking the affinity cycle
- How role models can help highlight hidden diversity within the organisation and support a sense of belonging
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12:10 Working with your supply chain on social mobility and tackling accent bias
- How can you make a bigger impact into your supply chain and client base? Creating a social mobility ripple effect, including an outreach programme
- Collecting qualitative data on micro-aggressions and rolling out accent bias socio-economic training across the organisation
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12:30 Live audience questions and answers
12:55 Lunch break and online networking
13:50 Chair’s welcome back
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13:55 Breaking down barriers: advancing social mobility through apprenticeships and work experience opportunities
- How apprenticeships and work experience placements are key to bp’s UK social mobility priorities
- Broadening access to opportunities and routes into work through inclusive programme design
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14:10 How data can help inform your social mobility recruitment strategy
- How the data can help create a picture of where the opportunities lie to advance social mobility in your recruitment process
- Practical data led actions you can take to improve fairness in the application process
- How Autotrader has developed toolkits and used data to work with employee networks to target interventions and measure and report success
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14:30 Raising awareness and setting up initiatives to advance social mobility in your workplace
- Encouraging belonging, sharing knowledge, and advocating for social mobility inclusion throughout the organisation
- Lessons learned to date at L&G and practical pointers
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14:50 Live audience questions and answers
15:20 Chair’s closing remarks
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