Gender Equality at Protiviti

iGroww provides a workplace community for women employees and a forum to enhance employee success, with initiatives focused on the recruiting, mentoring, growth and retention of women.

An important part of fostering a diverse culture is creating an environment where people feel comfortable discussing diversity issues. By bringing these issues to the forefront, organisations can identify potential problems and take positive action to remedy them. Yet, many companies are uncomfortable with providing such a forum. At Protiviti, iGROWW sees it as essential to achieve its goals.

Diverse Leadership Attracts Diverse Resources

'Having a diverse leadership team also attracts diverse resources,' Jane said. 'It creates a better culture and better business results.' For example, she said it helps to be able to see client problems through multiple perspectives and better serve clients.

A study by McKinsey showed that organisations with gender diversity in their senior leadership teams were 25 times more likely to achieve greater profitability. That’s an increase of 21% from the same measurement taken in 2017. Diversity isn’t just the right thing to do, it can also increase the bottom line.

Diversity Initiatives at Protiviti

While the iGROWW programme is primarily focused on creating opportunities that foster our female employees and our male allies to come together to share knowledge, discuss topics and create initiative that support the business goal of growing female leadership, it’s only part of the diversity initiatives at Protiviti.

The organisation has also launched formal sponsorship programs to help develop leaders from diverse cultural groups.

'In Australia, for example, we’re also looking at opportunities to increase awareness and representation from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and LGBTQ+ communities,' Jane said. 'It’s about being more inclusive for all.'