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Diverse Leadership

Diversity Recruitment

Diverse Leadership Talent

Savannah Group is committed to supporting all forms of diversity. As a specialist Executive Search firm, we have over 15 years of experience offering diversity recruitment services that place diverse candidates into senior leadership teams. We have a fresh approach and are passionate about helping leadership teams achieve greater business performance through access to a diverse range of talent.

Our service is tailored to your business needs. As a result, some of the most forward-thinking businesses internationally trust us to help create an effective diversity and inclusion strategy, and acquire high quality, diverse senior leaders.

“The Hampton-Alexander Review team would like to congratulate Savannah Group for excelling in their work to further diversity and inclusion in the recruitment of senior leaders at Board, Executive and direct report level.”

Diversity Recruitment

Our Six-Step Approach To Diversity Recruitment

Statistics show that gender, ethnic and culturally diverse individuals are under-represented at the executive level. Sourcing and acquiring the best diverse talent frequently requires searching beyond the obvious markets. 

This far-reaching process of diversity mapping enables us to discover diverse leadership talent wherever it is, in your industry or beyond.

1. Succession Mapping

Using a combination of our sophisticated diversity mapping technology and teams with diverse global connections and networks to build succession plans.

2. Overcoming Barriers

Advising our clients on effective diversity recruitment strategies and how to overcome barriers whilst maintaining candidate quality.

3. Candidate Openness

Working with Candidates by providing an environment of openness and healthy criticism.

4. Board Level Conversation

Confidential Board and Senior Executive succession planning around all aspects of your diversity and inclusion strategy.

5. Representation

Ensuring our clients are well represented both technically and strategically at board level.

6. Accountability

Making ourselves accountable and building it into our delivery. We are partners not suppliers.

Diversity

Diversity mapping plays a key role in unlocking a business’s maximum potential. McKinsey’s 2020 report ‘Diversity Wins’ highlights that the relationship between diversity on executive teams and the likelihood of financial outperformance has strengthened over time. It found that, gender representation stands at 15% while ethnic and cultural diversity stands at 14% in executive teams. 

 

At Savannah, we have a proven track record of providing diversity talent mapping services that produce a shortlist of individuals from a diverse range of cultural and professional backgrounds.

Diversity and Inclusion Strategy

 

Diversity isn’t just about ensuring that teams are culturally diverse; it is also about valuing difference and allowing the various strengths and skills that different members of the team have to come through. It is no use increasing the number of diverse individuals in a leadership team if they don’t feel supported enough to be able to present and have their views listened to.

 

As a way of understanding the different personalities of leaders, we have developed a transformational leadership tool, as part of our specialist diversity recruitment services, to ensure that the right support mechanisms are in place for both our team and our clients to achieve the benefits of diverse perspectives.

Unconscious Bias

We all harbour unconscious biases that influence our perceptions and judgments of others. As a business, we spend a lot of our time interviewing and assessing individuals. To help overcome these preconceived ideas in diversity recruitment, we actively recognise that distortions occur.

 

We question why we have been socialised to think this way and take necessary steps to reduce the impact of our preconceived biases on our behaviours when networking and building relationships with candidates. Every single one of our employees completes unconscious bias training as part of their development plan.

Accessing Diverse Candidates Internationally

Savannah Group quickly demonstrated a deep knowledge of the talent pool, and were able to call on their wide ranging network to inform the search process. We challenged them for a diverse short list of high calibre candidates and they delivered.  It was a pleasure to work with Savannah on this search and I’m delighted that we were able to complete this critical appointment within our targeted timescale.

Patrick Bermingham, Group HRD

Very responsive, found quality people for us and quickly understood our culture to find people that are a strong fit. Even if there have been challenges they have always found a way to solve the problems and create solutions. The partnership and collaboration has been a positive for us.

Sebastien Froidefond, Chief Human Resources Officer

We knew there would not be many people in the market with the skill set we wanted so we needed a global approach. The added complexity of the search was the accelerated pace we asked them to work at, which they did successfully without compromising on quality.

Maira Kokkinou, VP Talent Acquisition

Who We Are

Committed To Diversity Recruitment

Our partners operate at the highest level of the market, focusing on Board, C-Level Corporate Functions and appointments in key sectors. We were one of the first Executive Search signatories to the voluntary code of conduct to address gender diversity on corporate boards – an inclusion initiative that indicates just one of the ways we’re continually improving our own diversity recruitment.

We are partnered with the Windsor Leadership Trust and their programme to support Black and Asian leaders, and we regularly host events and share our thought leadership to bring awareness, enable discussion and ultimately support positive change.

Diverse Leadership Talent

Inspiring Black and Asian Leaders

We are delighted to support Windsor Leadership in the launch of their new programme to support Black and Asian Leaders.

The Inspiring Black and Asian Leaders Programme offers senior leaders from differing sectors the opportunity to engage in a challenging, thought-provoking and inspiring environment and shape an energising vision for how and where they lead in the future

Executive Search

With over a decade of experience in identifying and securing high performing executives as part of our diversity recruitment services, Savannah offers a rigorous global search process based on deep functional and industry knowledge.

Interim Management

From business transformation to crisis management, our experienced diversity talent mapping team can provide an integrated interim, search practices, and accelerated search processes to secure the senior leaders you need to drive fundamental change.

Talent Mapping & Insights

Market-leading businesses are increasingly asking us for detailed market intelligence to either help inform current searches or understand landscapes as foundations for future searches. We offer diversity mapping reports and intelligence as a stand-alone service, giving you a complete 360-degree view of relevant talent.

Featured Report

Quarterly and Annual FTSE Board Appointment Analysis

Since 2018 we have been producing quarterly and annual reports providing analysis of board and executive appointments within the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250, specifically looking at gender balance.  Among other observations, the analysis shows a significant increase in gender diversity amongst the non-executive director appointments however a significant shortfall in diversity amongst the executive director appointments.

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