Richard Gordon, formerly commercial director at LEVC (London EV Company), has joined Ennis & Co, as an associate. Richard brings an exceptional breadth of knowledge of the automotive retail and manufacturer sectors, having also worked for Jardine Motors Group, Bentley Motors, Ferrari and Toyota, in senior automotive sales and marketing roles. Richard’s industry network, built...Read More

The Automotive industry needs to ‘wake up’ to diversity or face dramatic skills shortage: this was the message following the diversity and inclusion event earlier this week. Read more in the full Auto Trader press release, below: This week, over fifty HR directors, MDs and CEOs from many of the leading automotive retail and manufacturing...Read More

Together with Auto Trader and Auto Retail Network, Ennis & Co hosted an inaugural industry event this week: Making Diversity & Inclusion a Business Reality. We gathered together 50 of the leading automotive HR, diversity and strategy leaders for a working session on where we are, what the issues are and how we are tackling...Read More

We’ve been assisting our friends at Autocar with their Great British Women initiative, an event that sets out to recognise the most inspirational women in the global car industry. Ennis & Co specialists have evaluated the applications and nominations and selected the Top 100 shortlisted women from wide-ranging functions across the industry. Now, it’s over...Read More

How prepared is your business to embrace and include diverse talent? Venue: Auto Trader Head Office, Kings Cross, London Date: Tuesday 12th June 2018: Time: 16.00 – 19.05 Ennis & Co, in partnership with Auto Trader, and supported by Auto Retail Network, is gathering together key leaders and stakeholders within the automotive industry, to embark...Read More

Like many of my peers in automotive leadership roles and within executive search agencies, I’ve seen diversity in business explode in the past five years. From the early days of collecting data on employee ethnic origin and ensuring a diverse mix of races were represented (if not representative) in corporate brochures, diversity is now a...Read More

Rescheduled! On Sunday 22nd April 2018, four of the Ennis & Co team will be undertaking a marathon attempt in support of the Brain Tumour Charity. While Jo Church and Freddie Keyworth will be running the Southampton Half Marathon, in Hampshire, Lynda Ennis and Al Clarke will be walking the same distance, doing one-mile laps,...Read More

The automotive industry, like any other sector, attempts to meet the diverse expectations of customers and other stakeholders but with mixed results. Some organisations focus on gender diversity with positive discrimination and targets, whilst others have implemented programmes to balance physical and mental health diversity in the workforce. Whatever diversity means to you (and more...Read More

Is it patronising or progressive to have an awards programme for women in the car industry? The answer will depend on your own perspective but at Ennis & Co we’re very clear that because the Autocar Great British Women in the Car Industry programme celebrates success and achievement, then it makes absolute sense and that’s...Read More

As the legendary pop singer David Bowie once sang, this is an age of Changes. And reinvention certainly is the name of the game in today’s rapidly changing world. It’s a skill that is becoming more of a necessity than just a useful addition to one’s portfolio of talents if we’re to cope. So whether...Read More