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Financial Services

• Developing A Global Diversity Strategy

  The company, the product of a series of mergers in the insurance sector is one of the leading insurers in the world. Expanding from its strong base in the UK it has over ... (more)

• Developing A Vision, Strategic Advice and Training

  For two and a half years, we worked to help move the company from something of a plateau to becoming an acknowledged leader in the UK (and increasingly globally). This ... (more)

• A Partnership With The Equality & Diversity Team

  We have worked with this organisation over a number of years – helping them develop and renew their three year equality and diversity strategies. Sometimes this ... (more)

• Workplace Survey and Action Plan - Sexual Orientation

  We were asked to help produce an action plan for achieving greater inclusivity for lesbian, gay and bisexual staff across the UK. This was felt to be a sensitive area ... (more)

Oil, Chemical & Utilities

• A Partnership With The Global Diversity & Inclusion Team

  We began working with the company in 1996. We originally helped the company develop its overall strategy for diversity and then, through the merger with another large ... (more)

• Serving Ethnic Minority Customers & Employees

  The company has an aspiration “to be the people the nation turns to first“ and we worked with them to identify what a good “customer experience” is for minority ethnic ... (more)

• Dignity At Work

  We worked with the HR and diversity team to develop a new diversity strategy and ran a Board strategy workshop, followed by a series of diversity training sessions for ... (more)

• Consultancy Support for Implementation & Training On the Race Equality Duty

  The Client developed an initial programme of work to implement the public duty to promote race equality and asked Schneider~Ross to help them to build on this initial ... (more)

• Developing A Diversity & Inclusion Strategy

  In 2003, a new main board Director was appointed to champion diversity. Since then we have helped them establish and run a senior level Steering Group and develop a ... (more)

• Diversity Awareness Training

  As part of our strategic consultancy support we have worked over 6 months with the company wide steering group led by the main board director, to raise the awareness, ... (more)

Manufacturing

• Inclusion & Cultural Change In A Globalising Company

  The company is a global consumer packaging company, and a relative newcomer to the FTSE 100. It has steadily grown with a series of acquisitions that have met or ... (more)

Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare

• Leadership Training For Senior Global Managers

  We have helped the company develop a global diversity strategy – across its R&D division. It is acutely aware of the importance of creativity and innovation to its ... (more)

Fast Moving Consumer Goods

• Developing vision and strategy

  During the early 1990's the company made significant progress in addressing equal opportunities for women - with a steady growth in maternity returners and an increase ... (more)

Transport, Travel & Tourism

• Raising Diversity Awareness

  S~R were asked to help get to the bottom of conflict within a multi-faith team. The team comprised of some 20 staff. It was responsible for staffing the Information Desk ... (more)

Legal & Professional Services

• Inclusive Recruitment For Partners

  As part of the preparation for the annual recruitment of trainee solicitors, we designed and ran a half-day workshop for the partners involved. This enabled them to ... (more)

• Strategic Workshops Enable Open Discussions on Gender issues

  Working closely with the Managing Partner and the Director of Human Resources, Schneider Ross developed a strategic workshop which would allow open and discussion and ... (more)

• Equality & Diversity Training

  The Law Society decided that all its ‘Council’ members must partake in Equality and Diversity training as a pre-condition of attending meetings of the Council or its ... (more)

Retail

• Diversity Training and ‘Training Trainers’

  Schneider~Ross commenced its partnership with the company in 2003 to roll out their diversity strategy for Europe. The project started with a detailed survey of all ... (more)

• A Diversity Training Programme To Develop “Fairness For All”

  We designed and ran a very successful programme for the senior management team, and are cascading the programme to all managers. The design has a particular emphasis on ... (more)

Telecommunications, IT & Publishing

• A European Approach For A US Corporation

  Our work with the company began in the late 1990s with the launch of a diversity initiative across EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). We worked in partnership with ... (more)

• Developing A “Single Footprint” & Building A Healthy Working Environment

  The mobile phone operator brings together a number of previously independent companies across continental Europe. We helped them to develop a diversity strategy ... (more)

• Diversity Training

  We designed and delivered a diversity training programme for senior and middle managers in a leading publishing group. The training programme was delivered to c. 400 ... (more)

Whitehall Departments & Agencies

• Diversity Training

  Over a two year period, we designed and ran over 130 diversity workshops for the client (covering each of the units). This has focused on translating awareness into ... (more)

• Survey into Barriers and Enablers for Progress

  In order to help the Civil Service better understand the barriers and enablers for progress (particularly those experienced by "traditionally disadvantaged groups ... (more)

• Championing Change at a Government Department

  Senior level champions for a particular diversity dimension (gender, race, age, disability, sexual orientation) are often appointed – but are they clear about what is ... (more)

• Equal Opportunities Policy Review

  Schneider~Ross conducted a policy review for the government department considering whether there was, or may have been perceived to be, unjustifiable disadvantage and ... (more)

• Competency Framework

  The Agency sought consultancy support to input into a review of their competency framework. The framework was launched in October 1996, and was used in a variety of key ... (more)

• Equality & Diversity Audit

  The Agency asked Schneider~Ross to carry out an equality and diversity audit across Enforcement and Compliance (approximately 32,000 staff). The senior management team ... (more)

• Race Audit

  Schneider~Ross conducted a race audit of the agencies policies, procedures and culture. This involved a desk review of policies and procedures, one-to-one interviews ... (more)

• Evaluation of Race Equality Scheme

  Schneider~Ross recently completed the evaluation of the Learning and Skills Council's Race Equality Scheme.  This involved an audit of how the 47 local offices had ... (more)

• Sexual Harrassment in the Armed Forces

  As part of the agreed action plan between the EOC and the MOD, we were asked to carry out the research that would help the Armed Forces understand (1) what the extent ... (more)

Higher Education

• An Equality & Diversity Audit

  In the Autumn term of 2003, Schneider-Ross undertook a survey at the University on the theme of ‘Valuing People: Managing and Developing our Talent’. The overall ... (more)

• Training For The Council

  Stimulated by the concept of the public duty, the College’s Council (bringing together external and internal leaders) was keen to build their understanding of the ... (more)

• University's Review of Race Equality Policy and Action Plan

  The consultancy was commissioned to conduct a review of the University’s race equality policy and action plan. The processes included a review of their policies relating ... (more)

• Audit and Strategic Support in Higher Education

  A major diversity audit and ongoing consultancy advice has led to a re-evaluation of their approach and work on equality, and the University are now carrying out a major ... (more)

• Scoping of LGBT Issues at Leading University

  Having previously undertaken a major diversity audit which explored staff experience around gender, disability and race and led to a re-evaluation of their approach and ... (more)

• A Diversity Learning Programme for a University

  All too often, organizations see diversity training as a one-off activity with a standard design. This is not at all our approach, so we were delighted to be asked by ... (more)

• Impact Assessment Training

  In common with public sector bodies across the UK, the University needed to develop a methodology for conducting race equality impact assessments.  We worked with ... (more)

Local Government & Agencies

• Planning & Developing Impact Assessment

  Schneider~Ross designed a project to assist staff from the Environmental Services Directorate in planning and developing their impact assessment activities. Initial ... (more)

Commissions, Think Tanks & Campaigns

• Study Of The Impact Of The Race Equality Public Duty

  The Race Relations (Amendment) Act provides a unique legislative lever for change - without parallel in the world. A year after introducing the notion of the public ... (more)

• Our Work on Disability

  We have long had a close relationship with the Employers’ Forum on Disability. This goes back to some research in the early 1990s which identified that enlightened ... (more)

• Development of an Equal Pay Charter

  Schneider~Ross was asked to carry out stakeholder consultation, supporting the Commissioners and the Senior team to explore priorities for sex equality in the 21st ... (more)