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

‘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

Two years ago Ennis & Co organised a ‘Women in Automotive’ conference in London which set the tone for a diversity debate which continues with vigour today. Supported by Aston Martin, around 90 senior female executives from the industry shared ideas about how to attract more women at all levels into the automotive sector. That...Read More

I recently re-watched Frost and Sullivan’s You Tube clip about their detailed report, “Women as Automotive Customers”, and felt a bit of unease (not F&S’s fault, of course). As one industry insider states in the film, the industry has traditionally made cars for men, and there is a huge case for it now to make...Read More

Despite the new shared parental leave law, more women than men will experience a significant career break to have children, and will need to navigate their way back into work and face the challenges associated with this. Other women in an organisation who have undergone the same experience would have a unique opportunity here to...Read More