Ennis & Co. are excited to once again support the Great British Women in the Car Industry- Rising Stars event, taking place on Wednesday 19 June in London’s Euston Square. Autocar has confirmed a host of top automotive industry experts to present at this year’s prestigious event, which is returning for a fourth year, and...Read More

More than half of the Earth’s population is made up of Millennials and Gen Zs. Which means, collectively, they represent the vast majority of the world’s workforce. Within my career in Automotive Executive Search, I am conversing with and interviewing Millennials approximately 80% of the time; which means keeping up with their wants and needs...Read More

Automotive industry risks missing out on the skills and talent vital for future success This week over 80 HR directors, MDs, CEOs and change leaders from many of the major automotive retail and manufacturing brands, service providers and trade bodies agreed that brands that fail to embed an authentic diversity and inclusion (D&I) strategy will...Read More

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

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

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

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