Sentences with phrase «more board diversity»

For example, she points to Peter Grower of Bloomberg as one individual who has been rallying to encourage more board diversity in the US.

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The appointments are significant at a time when more and more companies are coming under fire for their lack of board diversity.

Canada's seventh - largest — and largest foreign - owned — bank, with more than $ 90 billion in assets and $ 2 billion in annual revenue, the company under her watch has become an exemplar of gender diversity, with equal numbers of men and women on the board and in senior management.

What we need to do is make board selection more public, make it more visible — talk about the boards that are doing well and the diversity they have.

«Investors» calls for greater gender diversity appear to be nudging nominating committees to find more women to serve on boards at U.S. firms.»

Aspiration evaluates mutual fund companies across three categories — social, environmental, and governance programs — and will choose to work with them only if they have committed to more employee training to reduce safety violations on site, reducing their carbon emissions, or increasing gender diversity at the board level.

The letter urges five overall guiding principles and 10 best practices in order to get more women into the field generally and leadership positions, including: getting executives and boards to make gender diversity a priority; establishing mentorship programs that connect women with life sciences executives; and doing a better job tracking where female talent goes within biopharma firms, among other suggestions.

Boards today are also trying to include more perspectives, skill sets and experiences to reflect their audiences, signal the importance of diversity to the company, and ultimately increase the performance of the businesses overall.

Familiar issues such as say - on - pay and board diversity will grow more complex this year, and guidelines on overboarding will further put the pressure on boards that have gone stale.

«[W] orkplace diversity proposals (which mostly concern rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and those seeking more diversity among corporate board members) account for 9 percent of the total number of shareholder resolutions filed so far this year.»

In other words, boards not subject to an activist campaign were more likely to increase board diversity.

Women to Make Up 40 Per Cent of Provincial Boards and Agencies by 2019 Link to Original Article: https://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2016/06/ontario-sets-gender-diversity-targets.html by: Office of the Premier Today, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced new gender diversity targets to ensure more women have the opportunity to reach top leadership positions at provincial agencies and other government organizations.

She's also committed to pushing to make the Franklin Avenue subway station fully accessible, and to encouraging more diversity and youth participation on local Community Boards.

Bklyner article on Borough President Adams pushing for more diversity on Brooklyn's community boards as he announced a deadline for new applications.

We have also brought on board highly qualified leaders from a diversity of ethnic and racial groups — more action.

He also hopes to foster trust in East Ramapo by pushing for more diversity and transparency on the school board and the town overall.

Kaplan added, «overall Gigi has done an excellent job,» but with board elections approaching she said Li would have the opportunity to address the diversity issue more fully and to talk about what she'd do differently in another term.

And it is is really insulting J Petrille to everyone's intelligence that because Mr. Marlow is white means he can't care about diversity or want a more inclusive and representative board.

How I see Mario Party is that the series continues to throw more diversity to our playtime, since one day we could choose the 3rd one, other days the 5th one and so on (minus the 8th, we do nt like it that much), but that wouldnt be possible if they all were to be the SAME, every single one has a new twist inside it, wether it is the items, the board gimmicks, the microphone or the lates 9th instament that has changed alot (but its still fun as hell) that makes it unique and worth a note.

More diversity across the board.

Having diversity in the board membership and independent voices from outside the community that set up the school, brings different perspectives to discussions enabling healthy debate and, ultimately, a more balanced approach.

Charter school operators must also figure out how to bring more community members onto their governing boards and advisory councils; the lack of diversity on those boards is one of the main reasons why some blacks still view charters with skepticism.

We do need to improve the diversity of boards, and to recruit more people under 40 and from ethnic minorities.

Speaking at a briefing about today's A-level results, Sharon Hague, senior vice-president of exam board Pearson, said the organisations are actively working with Stonewall, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender charity, to consider how gender diversity could be more accurately recorded in the results.

SI&A has held contracts for more than a decade with the majority of the state's school districts and county boards of education for a diversity of back - office services and products.

But some contend that appointed school boards allow for more diversity, so that boards reflect the racial makeup of a jurisdiction and include parents and financial or education experts.

Canada's largest retirement fund manager is pushing to have more women on corporate boards because diversity makes for better business decisions, CPPIB CEO said

TORONTO — Canada's largest retirement fund manager is pushing to have more women on corporate boards because diversity makes for better business decisions, CPPIB chief executive Mark Machin said Friday.

The piece, called «The Runners,» is the first in a series of performances by Chicago - based artist Theaster Gates, who recently joined the board of the Hirshhorn to infuse more diversity into the museum's programming.

Since the 2011 Davies report called for a minimum of 25 % female representation on boards, companies have been thinking about why diversity is important and what they can do to build a more diverse workforce.

Diversity usually leads to more well - rounded board decisions.

There are many studies showing that the more gender diversity on boards, amongst managers and on work teams — the better the results are for the bottom line and for clients.

«Among other things, this will involve improving recruitment procedures to increase the diversity of our workforce and board, introducing enhanced training for all staff and setting up new systems to enable problems to be identified and resolved more speedily.»

Without an inclusive culture at the board, C - Suite, or other staffing levels, diversity alone can sometimes be more about feel - good propositions that will have less of an impact on both quantitative and qualitative organizational growth including the bottom line.