Advisory Services

Consultancy

The Pipeline works with organisations to help them reach their own D&I goals. Often these are organisations that are already performing well but know that they could perform better if they had a greater level of diversity amongst their senior people. We provide a high-level consulting service, working with the senior leadership of an organisation to put in place a muscular strategy to increase the levels of diversity at the top. Our strength is that we will only do what works, and refuse to do what doesn’t, as evidenced by these three case studies highlighting our work with three different clients:

Large Accounting firm case study

Our client wanted to understand how to improve the outcomes in the Tax team for women, specifically the number of women in senior positions as well as improving the future pipeline, recruitment and retention of talented women.

The Pipeline was asked to work with them to help create an inclusive culture that would help attract and retain talent beyond just women. Helping the team to understand what the key issues were, to calibrate how well they well they were doing and to think through some workable strategies and created the plans to achieve future success. Key to all the above was supporting the leader and the wider team during this process of change to ensure a positive outcome.

With a small team we created a short, focused and pragmatic approach, based on what we know works, rather than something resembling an audit. We ran the activity in four phases desk top research, internal focus groups, analysis of data, actively devising the strategy in real time workshops with the Senior Partners.

We have seen significant behavioural change within the senior team and this has led to a measurably better pipeline for female appointments to Partner.

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Private Equity Case Study

A significant PE firm had developed their strategy and plan for improving Diversity and Inclusion, including in it a whole range of activities. The challenge for them was where to start and determining what would bring the best returns.

The Pipeline facilitated a workshop where we worked with them to help understand their beliefs on diversity and inclusion, to what degree there was ownership of the agenda, what they had and should implement and what they should focus on first. We developed for them a blueprint for future action against which they, and we, can monitor progress.

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Financial Services case study

Our client has a strong reputation for the work they have done in Diversity and Inclusion over the last few years, with many initiatives put in place from innovative policies to proactive development programmes.

The HR Director and Head of Talent had reached a point where they felt that, in spite of the investment to date, they were not seeing results in terms of making progress against their targets. They asked The Pipeline to help them to review what was in place to establish what was working and where there might be areas for future focus.

The Pipeline facilitated two workshop sessions: one with the HR team to establish how sustainable had been the activity and a second follow up workshop with senior line leaders to sense check the thinking. We then developed an action plan of fifteen integrated areas for improvement that we believed would bring long-term results and worked with the team on an implementation plan.

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Bespoke Solutions

At The Pipeline, we can deliver the D&I solutions that are right for you and your organisation. In order to achieve the broadest level of impact on the talent pipeline of some of our clients, we have designed in-house programmes tailored to specific requirements.

For one client, a global oil and gas company, we developed a programme in partnership with the client called Developing Female Leaders, which involved a group of 20 women from around the world taking part in 6 half-day virtual sessions over 6 weeks, with the sessions focusing on six key themes: Personal Brand, Strategic Networking, Finance & Numbers, Leadership Impact, Understanding Resilience, and Personal Confidence. Each participant received two hours of one-to-one coaching. The programme also included the line managers of the participants taking part in our Leading Diverse Teams programme, in order for the managers to better support and proactively sponsor their direct-reports after they had completed the programme.

For another client, in the banking/financial services sector, we have provided a wrap-around service providing end-to-end insight and support for their efforts to meet their diversity targets. First, their most senior female executives took part in our year-long Top Flight programme over successive years. This was followed by the organisation participating in our GENIE Px Diversity Diagnostic tool, which enables us to pinpoint exactly where the blockages were in the organisation and what needed to change. With this knowledge, the organisation put two tranches of women through an in-house Leadership Summit programme, whilst at the same time putting their managers through our Leading Diverse Teams programme, to ensure maximum effect. Participants all also received one-to-one coaching.

We can create the solutions that are right for your organisation. Contact us today to find out how The Pipeline can help you.

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Speaking

If you would like us to provide a speaker for your event focusing on gender equality, D&I, our philosophy, the business case for diversity, or any of our research, please contact us today by calling Nell on 020 7636 9002 or emailing nell@execpipeline.com