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
When it comes to mastering a strategy to deal with the unexpected, you could do far worse than to learn in 2017 how to perform a ‘reverse ferret.’ That’s the mildly comical term used in the national media – renowned for its darkly cynical gallows humour – to describe how to swiftly alter course when...Read More
‘Hell would freeze over before I would work for a woman,’ a senior motor industry executive told me recently. At a time when corporations are shouting from the roof-tops about the need for more women and diversity on boards, in senior executive positions, and in the workforce generally, it was a brutally honest if very...Read More
Take a moment to look up at the sky. Is it still there? Whatever your views on Brexit – and it will remain a vexed and divisive subject for a long time to come – the heavens did not fall in after the momentous vote by Britons to leave the European Union. The world did...Read More
[Read here](https://ennisco.com/perch/resources/pages-from-imimagazine03febspreads.pdf-adobe-acrobat.pdf “”) Further to our Women in Automotive event, here’s our IMI article on the subject. Read here Further to our Women in Automotive event, here’s our IMI article on the subject.Read More
So after a period of unprecedented turmoil the new boss arrives in a blaze of glory to restore order. But with that comes the almost inevitable shake-out of the upper echelons of the old management as a shiny new team is formed. High flying careers that looked set to shoot to the stars are suddenly...Read More
