Case study

Powerlist Foundation

FY15 marked the third year of our successful collaboration with the Powerlist Foundation in running our leadership programme for high-potential undergraduates from African and Afro-Caribbean backgrounds. Powerlist was established to identify and support future business leaders from a diverse range of backgrounds.

Our aim is to address some of the wider social challenges regarding diversity and inclusion in leadership such as a lack of access to suitable leadership development opportunities for ethnic minorities and the need for more visible role models. The programme’s participants receive leadership development support through inspirational role models, key note speakers, mentors and buddies, as well as skills development sessions.

We also challenge the participants as tomorrow’s leaders to inspire us with their own innovative thinking about how we can resolve the type of social challenges that inspired the formation of the Powerlist Foundation and the leadership programme.

“I would like to say a massive thank-you for having me on the leadership programme this week. I have attended several events of a similar nature and I can honestly say this has been the most beneficial. The programme has changed my perspective on things and has truly boosted my self-confidence. Seeing people who are not too different from myself achieve great things has raised the bar for me and I very much want to reach and exceed it!”

Vanessa Simpungwe, 2014 delegate

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