Twelfth E-Newsletter

Twelfth E-Newsletter

The Diversity Project has an ambitious, multi-faceted aim: to create a more diverse and inclusive investment and savings industry. That means we are working across multiple dimensions of diversity and inclusion and at all career stages. Inevitably, the DP is therefore...
Why Project Management is like attacking a hill*

Why Project Management is like attacking a hill*

So people often ask me the similarities between my old job as an Officer in the Parachute Regiment in the British Army, and my new job in Project Management in Financial Services. * no hills were attacked during this note! Well, they don’t actually ask me for...
10 things I wish I knew before I left the Armed Forces

10 things I wish I knew before I left the Armed Forces

As a leaving present, I was given recruitment forms for fast food joints that the Wardroom had collected on their run ashore around Gibraltar.  A vote of confidence from my erstwhile comrades… Leaving the mob was a scary prospect.  I’d spent hours during watches...
Twelfth E-Newsletter

Ninth E-Newsletter

It’s been another busy quarter for the Diversity Project as we started our efforts towards 2021’s objectives with more focus on inclusion, data and encouraging traditional talent to be ‘allies’. The context in which we work remains both difficult and at times...