Although the festival is over for another year, the promotion of diversity and inclusion in the insurance sector remains front and centre. Dive In has again continued to help insurance get fit for the future, highlighting the business case for diverse and inclusive workplaces and providing practical ideas and inspiration for how to bring about positive change. With thousands of people attending 140 events in 60+ cities across 30+ countries around the world, this year's festival has once again been an emphatic success, and the energy of the festival will be harnessed to encourage action across the sector.
Kennedys is very proud to have been able to support and participate in such an important, and successful, initiative. See you at Dive In 2020!
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Now in its fifth year, the Dive In Festival celebrates diversity and inclusion in insurance across the globe, and is the sector’s only international D&I festival that runs concurrently in multiple organisations across all continents, representing every corner of the industry, from the smallest brokers to the largest multi-national companies. Its mission is simply to advance diversity and inclusion across the insurance sector.
An initiative of Inclusion@Lloyd’s, a cross market collaboration of C-suite executives and industry associations driving the strategic push for greater diversity in the Lloyd’s market, the festival raises awareness and builds momentum, and aims to engage and educate people within the Lloyd’s market on the importance of diversity and inclusion in insurance by providing people with understanding, knowledge and the tools to implement positive change. It helps promote a different view of insurance to a variety of stakeholders and to prospective employees both within and outside the industry.
The Dive In festival has grown from a Lloyd’s market event in London at launch in 2015 to become an award winning global movement that is embraced by the wider insurance industry. If Dive In has a vision, it is that insurance is recognised as a progressive industry where workplace cultures create a level playing field for talent, attracting the very best people regardless of age, gender, class, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, care responsibility or disability. Its mission is to create engaging moments of shared insight and experience that inspire behaviour change at the individual and institutional level to support the creation of inclusive cultures that are good for business and best for people.
The festival will run 24-26 September 2019 with events taking place in more than 60 locations around the world, many in which Kennedys has a presence.
We have a distinctive culture at Kennedys that makes us a successful firm where people enjoy coming to work. Our culture is a source of strength and differentiates us. We are very conscious that as a diverse and global firm we need to ensure that everyone, whoever or wherever they are in the firm, shares and embraces our values. Underpinning our values is our involvement in events that celebrate diversity and inclusion within the sectors in which we operate. Our ongoing series of Women in Insurance events and active involvement with Link demonstrate our commitment to promoting our values in all that we do.
Kennedys is very proud to be a global gold-level sponsor of this year’s festival.
