Cartus Brings Industry Insight and Guidance to Worldwide ERC Global Workforce Symposium 202One

Thursday’s panel discussion, “A Wealth of Opportunity: The Untapped Potential of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DE&I) in Global Mobility”—led by Cartus’ Brenda Thoeny-Johnson, Director, Strategic Business Solutions—provided valuable insights into global mobility’s vital role in enabling organizations’ DE&I strategy. To help organizations better understand the role that DE&I plays at a strategic and tactical level across markets and borders, industry thought leaders discussed opportunities to build DE&I fundamentals into policy to create a more supportive, inclusive, and successful organization. Highlights of the panel included insights on how to strengthen DE&I initiatives by:

• Incorporating DE&I into personal diversity statements for each employee
• Leveraging pro bono and nonprofit support to include the community in corporate endeavors
• Creating policies that accommodate personal lifestyle choices, family situations, and preferences without needing to identify sensitive information to one’s employer

Closing a week full of networking and knowledge sharing, Cartus’ Katrina L. Helmkamp, President and CEO, joined Friday’s “ESG: Doing Good Is Good for Business” panel to address the topic of leading through ESG. The panel took a deep dive into how companies that focus on Environment (sustainable thinking and practice), Social (DE&I, Community Connection, and Employee Well-being) and Governance (Transparency and Compliance) are learning that the ESG mindset powers employee engagement, confidence from clients, interest from candidates and investors, loyalty from supply chain, and better business results through operating efficiency, less waste, and more purposefully designed processes and systems. Panel insights included:

• Case study findings, including the fact that, in the case of ethnic and cultural diversity, “top-quartile companies outperformed those in the fourth one by 36 percent in profitability” (McKinsey)
• A more diverse workforce enables innovation to serve underserved segments by internally representing what your external customers want and need
• Tracking offer and acceptance rates of diverse candidates is key to ongoing DE&I strategy and retention