#TalkAboutBlack: 2020 is the year to reset your firm's mindset

Better leadership needed on diversity and inclusion

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Darren Johnson urges financial services organisations to use this "extraordinary year" to reset and seek out "different mindsets" as the journey towards diversity and wholesale inclusion continues...

2020 has certainly been a year to remember. Covid-19 has forced the world to slow down, reset and think about how we live our lives. There has been historic solidarity for the Black Lives Matter movement with high-profile footballers and Formula 1 drivers showing their support by taking the knee, and people of all races coming together for peaceful protests. Companies, big and small, have started to look within their own organisations to remove any barriers that may exist to reflect the wider society.  For me, this is very much welcomed. As one of the few (and I mean very few) blac...

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