FleishmanHillard UK is a leading integrated communications agency delivering public relations, reputation management, brand marketing, digital and social strategy, public affairs and brand strategy to UK, EMEA and global clients.
We have a truly unique agency culture which fosters diversity of thought and encourages innovation which means we constantly deliver outstanding results for our clients.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at FleishmanHillard UK
At FleishmanHillard UK, we believe that embedding equity into all of our ways of working will drive inclusion for all.
A focus on transparency and fairness is key to creating a workplace that understands and embraces intersectionality, and with a healthy culture made up of different perspectives and experiences.
For our business specifically, bringing together a team from diverse backgrounds with divergent perspectives is critical for our ability to understand and reach our clients’ rich, diverse, global audiences.
Diversity helps us better understand the world around us and enriches our thinking with a multitude of lived experiences. This helps us to tackle client challenges in unique ways.
At FleishmanHillard UK, we are striving to achieve our vision of being “the most inclusive agency in the UK”. This means we’re fervently committed to ensuring our work and the workforce that creates it represents and reflects the society in which we live.
In 2020, we became the first PR and creative agency in the UK achieve accreditation by the National Equality Standard, the Government-backed benchmark for best practice in DE&I. In 2023 we became the first PR agency to be reaccredited under the Standard, a reflection of our continued commitment to progress, transparency and accountability.
Central to this achievement is the fact that rather than focusing on ‘fixing’ our people, we have sought to understand why the system has been working for some and not for others. This has been a complicated, nuanced and ongoing process which includes:
- Reviewing our data (quantitative and qualitative) to understand the make up of our agency and the experiences people are having;
- Focus groups and listening;
- Reviewing where and how we are seeking to attract talent;
- Refreshing recruitment processes, with inclusion and transparency as a core objective
- Reviewing internal talent progression processes in collaboration with business psychologists
- Building and embedding tech solutions to solve for issues such as proximity bias and work allocation
The work is ongoing, and ever evolving but if you’d like to find out more please get in touch.
