The Automotive Council was established in 2009 to enhance dialogue and strengthen co-operation between UK government and the automotive sector. The Council is made up of senior figures from across industry and government and meets three times per year.
As an affiliate of The Automotive Council, Ennis & Co supports and collaborates with the organisation primarily from a D&I and skills perspective. Through our findings and data collected via surveys and research, Ennis & Co is able to provide our expertise on topics such as the importance of equality for all and the role of HR strategy in achieving this aim. As champions of D&I, we think it is important to share our insights and views with the wider automotive industry at the Automotive Council meetings and appreciate the opportunity to do so.
As an organisation, Ennis & Co feels strongly that diversity and inclusion is a necessary element of a successful business and that increasing the conversation around this topic benefits our industry as a whole.
Established in 1977, Auto Trader has a rich 40-year history and is one of the UK’s leading digital brands.
Auto Trader prides itself on being the most trusted automotive marketplace. It’s the go-to destination for car buyers and has been for the past 40 years.
Auto Trader and Ennis & Co have worked together on a number of occasions over the years. Ennis & Co has collaborated with Auto Trader in various initiatives, including our partnered annual event since 2018: Making Diversity and Inclusion a Business Reality. Auto Trader has also provided a platform for Ennis & Co’s virtual Advisory Group forums, with Ian Plummer, Commercial Director, contributing as a speaker on two occasions.
In addition, Auto Trader featured in the Ennis & Co 2020 publication 2020: The year that changed everything. Our diversity and inclusion leaders within automotive and mobility and Ennis & Co Founder, Lynda Ennis participated in the judging of the Auto Trader Auto Retail Awards 2020.
Founded in 1895, Autocar is a member of Haymarket Media Group and is a weekly British automobile magazine. Self-described as the world’s leading motoring magazine and website, Autocar has long been regarded as a global authority for automotive news, features and new and used car verdicts, with its expert, highly-regarded weekly road test at the heart of its offering.
Ennis & Co are proud to continue to support Autocar Great Women, a brilliant initiative that celebrates the automotive and mobility industry’s best female talent. Lynda Ennis, CEO and Founder of Ennis & Co, supports the judging of this competition and has done so for the past six years.
For four years, Ennis & Co Founder, Lynda Ennis supported in the judging of the Barbara Cox Woman of the Year Award
The Barbara Cox Award was established in 2005 and is named after the late Barbara Cox, a business pioneer who was an Owner and Director of Cox Enterprises – Cox Automotive’s parent company. This annual award recognizes women who share the traits and accomplishments of its namesake.
Ennis & Co is proud to support this progressive and diversity & inclusion focused initiative.
BEN was founded in 1905, and named The Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund in 1924. Today it strives to ‘support the lifeblood of the automotive industry – its people’, by providing support with mental health, physical health and well-being to anyone who works or has worked in the automotive industry.
Ennis & Co feel passionately that BEN aligns with our beliefs of continuing to help those within our industry when they need it the most and we are delighted to be in partnership with BEN to help support the automotive industry.
The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) launched a Diversity Task Force in March 2021 as part of a drive to tackle diversity in automotive through a year-long project.
Ennis & Co is a proud supporter of The IMI’s Diversity Task Force, as we are also an advocate of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
Utilising our key insights in finding senior talent , Ennis & Co recently presented our findings on hidden and non-hidden disabilities in the workforce to The IMI’s Diversity Task Force. Fully supporting colleagues with disabilities is a key aspect of a fully diverse and inclusive organisation and one that we were delighted to spread awareness on.
Lumina Select is an interactive, customisable product designed especially for selection and recruitment, helping you understand a candidate’s potential for competencies required in a specific role.
Lumina Select uses its own 16 competencies developed from extensive research examining relevant work behaviours and linking these back to core personality traits. This comprehensive set of competencies reflects the complexities of many different work environments.
Predicting success: A smoothie of different Lumina Spark qualities is used to gauge competency potential. Each quality is given a specific weighting based on its relative contribution to rated performance.
Ennis & Co were delighted to partner with Lumina Select in 2021 with the aim of broadening our candidate insights. By introducing additional analysis to our reports and search processes, Lumina Select supports Ennis & Co through depth of knowledge and strategic insights.
As personality can account for up to 18% of the variance in job performance, it is important for us to highlight and analyse the key competencies of a role in relation to personality traits. Lumina Select is therefore an integrated element of our selection process, implemented in addition to our own proven methodology.
The Not Forgotten is Ennis & Co’s nominated charitable organisation. The Not Forgotten supports service and ex-service personnel with disabilities or who are wounded. This includes the organisation or provision of items or facilities for leisure and recreational activities, travel, holidays and outings.
For more information or to donate to the charity, please click here: The Not Forgotten