Case Study: How to Embed a Top-Down Culture that Embraces Equity and Leads by Example.
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As chief executive of Channel 4, Alex Mahon is committed to making work better for women. In this session, she shared how she believes change can be delivered to stop women involuntarily leaving the workforce and to ensure they have the same career progression opportunities as men.
Mahon went from education to implementation to engagement and built a culture of inclusivity. Here’s how she started: “We set really specific targets for diversity, and I set hard targets for the top 100 most highly paid people within the organisation, with the belief that if we could change the people who were the biggest decision makers, that would help change the culture. We went from 34% women in the top 100 to now 53%... So we started off with diversity representation, then we moved to inclusion, making sure people got included in things in the workplace. Now we're trying to move to equity, which is ensuring that everybody has the same opportunity.”
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Alex Mahon
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Alex is CEO of Channel 4 and is a passionate and committed advocate for inclusive work environments. Channel 4’s gender equality staff network, 4Women, developed and launched a menopause policy in 2019, providing women and colleagues with the tools, support and guidance needed before, during and after menopause. In 2020 that policy was made freely available to everyone and since then it has been downloaded over 2,000 times.
