19. Deloitte Sweden's CEO Jan Berntsson on the importance of including management in D&I work and the value of mentoring for integration on the labour market

This episode is part of a series including CEOs from large companies in Sweden who have been part of Mitt Liv's CEO-network called "CEOs for D&I", for increased diversity and inclusion in the labour market. The aim of the program is to get the trade and industry to scale up the work for diversity and inclusion in their organisations and take responsibility for one of Sweden's biggest societal challenges: exclusion in the labour market.

This episode features Deloitte Sweden's CEO Jan Berntsson who was part of the first group of "CEOs for D&I". Jan thinks that it is important that the company mirrors the society – Sweden has a minority group of 20% with foreign backgrounds of the total population which means that the company should reflect this, on all levels including the boards. Jan states that "We must also mirror our clients, to align with their thinking".

The topics in this episode include:

• Sign up for our upcoming symposium "An Inclusive Labour Market 2023": https://mittliv.com/en/webinars-events-courses/an-inclusive-labour-market-2023/ me opportunities to everyone. This has affected the social sustainability and equality work at Deloitte.
• Jan shares Deloitte's journey working toward gender equality and moving toward having an equal amount of female and male partners in the company.
• We also learn about Deloitte’s WorldClass ambition; to reach 100 million people by 2030 through programs and partnerships with leading educational organisations around the world. Deloitte invests their people's time, provides volunteers, and donates to support millions of students, teachers, and education leaders worldwide.
• The WorldClass program in Sweden focuses on integrating academics with foreign backgrounds on the Swedish labour market, and together with Mitt Liv Deloitte has contributed with many mentors in our Mitt Livs Chans mentoring program for academics with foreign backgrounds.
• Jan shares why it is important to involve management, not only HR, in diversity and inclusion work, and how he encourages managers to become mentors to learn about the journey of migrating to Sweden and getting into the labour market.
• Jan also shares that their equality work has had a positive impact on satisfaction and profitability, for themselves and their clients.
• Jan sees that today, the financial sector is not truly mirroring the society we live in, in terms of diversity and that needs to be highlighted.

This episode is also available with video on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHC3Chrdbmbxkp2Pgx1YPyg

Read more about Deloitte's work here: https://www.deloitte.com/global/en.html?icid=site_selector_global

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Sign up for our upcoming symposium "An Inclusive Labour Market 2023": https://mittliv.com/en/webinars-events-courses/an-inclusive-labour-market-2023/

Read about our "CEOs for D&I" program: https://mittliv.com/en/impact-advocacy/ceos-for-d-i/