Security Thought Leadership: in conversation with Martin Gill

What does a diverse workforce look like? How is the security sector faring up?

• Professor Martin Gill • Season 1 • Episode 110

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Previous webinars have highlighted the benefits of a diverse workforce, these are a given, but strategies to achieving them have received less coverage. Most companies still lack representation from a wide range of ages, genders, races, ethnicities, and sexual orientations. A primary reason is the difficulty of building a culture of true diversity and inclusion. In a recent benchmarking survey the vast majority of organizations said diversity and inclusion were top priorities yet just 10 percent of them had reached full maturity. This webinar will debate:

What makes for a truly diverse and inclusive security workforce?
How committed has the security sector been to achieving diversity?
Which areas present he most challenges and how are they being overcome? Where can we look to good practice?

Panellists:
Emma Shaw – Managing Director at Esoteric
Dr. Fidelma Ashe – Reader in politics at Ulster University
Amanda McCloskey – Sales & Marketing Director at CIS Security

A video and summary of this session is available here: https://www.theospas.com/2021/04/30/what-does-a-diverse-workforce-look-like-how-is-the-security-sector-faring-up/

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