Savills has hired a former civil service executive to oversee diversity and inclusion in its UK business.
Chanelle Gray (pictured) joins the agency as UK head of D&I after 13 years in the civil service, where she was most recently deputy director of D&I, wellbeing and culture in the Department of Health & Social Care.
At Savills she will work with the management team and employees across the business to lead, deliver and evolve its D&I strategy.
Richard Rees, managing director at Savills, said: “This is an incredibly important role for our business and one that we are very excited to be introducing. We have made huge progress as a business, and indeed an industry, with regards to diversity and inclusion – but there remains a lot more work to be done to ensure that D&I is engrained in everything we do across the workplace.”
Gray added: “Diversity and inclusion has, quite rightly, become more than a tick box exercise with businesses realising the importance of valuing and celebrating the differences of individuals across its workforce. By allowing and supporting individuals to be comfortable in being themselves both in and out of the workplace, we can achieve so much more together.”
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