Diversity in Deloitte
Deloitte & Diversity
Summary of Deloitte:
Deloitte is one of Canada’s leading professional services firms. They provides audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services. Deloitte values diversity and takes concrete steps towards inclusion of women, visible minorities, recent immigrants, aboriginals, etc. Each year, they publish an annual diversity report. Deloitte was selected as a “Best Diversity Employer” in 2012 by the Mediacorps editors among the 2012 Canada’s Top 100 employers project. Deloitte held in 2011 its second annual “Dialogue on Diversity” roundtables across the country; the goal of which was to discuss how to better integrate immigrants into the workforce. Deloitte then partnered with Carleton University and released a study called “Progress in inches, miles to go” that stresses out the uneven progress Canadian female leaders made and the challenges women face in achieving equality in various sectors. Similarly, the “Dialogue on Diversity” of 2010 focused on integrating people with disabilities in the workplace.
Statistics at Deloitte:
- 50% of new leadership appointments were women or members of visible minorities in the last 2 years
- 25% of the Board of Directors are women
- 23% of Deloitte’s Canadian Executive and Extended Leadership Team are women
- two of Deloitte’s five service lines are led by women
Diversity push:
Under CEO Barry Salzberg, Deloitte is focusing its recruiting efforts on community college, where minority students are plentiful
A big part of the problem, Salzberg believes, is where Deloitte has been looking for talent: in the same pool of top universities that everyone else taps for minority talent.
So this spring, Salzberg directed some of his senior people to focus their recruiting efforts on community colleges. The rationale: The two-year, state-funded programs are where the majority of African-American and Latino students enroll, especially during tough times. The idea: to dispute the notion that
Summary of Deloitte:
Deloitte is one of Canada’s leading professional services firms. They provides audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services. Deloitte values diversity and takes concrete steps towards inclusion of women, visible minorities, recent immigrants, aboriginals, etc. Each year, they publish an annual diversity report. Deloitte was selected as a “Best Diversity Employer” in 2012 by the Mediacorps editors among the 2012 Canada’s Top 100 employers project. Deloitte held in 2011 its second annual “Dialogue on Diversity” roundtables across the country; the goal of which was to discuss how to better integrate immigrants into the workforce. Deloitte then partnered with Carleton University and released a study called “Progress in inches, miles to go” that stresses out the uneven progress Canadian female leaders made and the challenges women face in achieving equality in various sectors. Similarly, the “Dialogue on Diversity” of 2010 focused on integrating people with disabilities in the workplace.
Statistics at Deloitte:
- 50% of new leadership appointments were women or members of visible minorities in the last 2 years
- 25% of the Board of Directors are women
- 23% of Deloitte’s Canadian Executive and Extended Leadership Team are women
- two of Deloitte’s five service lines are led by women
Diversity push:
Under CEO Barry Salzberg, Deloitte is focusing its recruiting efforts on community college, where minority students are plentiful
A big part of the problem, Salzberg believes, is where Deloitte has been looking for talent: in the same pool of top universities that everyone else taps for minority talent.
So this spring, Salzberg directed some of his senior people to focus their recruiting efforts on community colleges. The rationale: The two-year, state-funded programs are where the majority of African-American and Latino students enroll, especially during tough times. The idea: to dispute the notion that