Diverse Leaders

Championing for a diverse and inclusive built environment

Diverse Leaders is an integral NLA Network that supports the diversity, equity, and inclusion of the built environment industry, championing a representative sector and overcoming chronic discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, age, and socio-economic background.

Diversity and inclusion are multifaceted issues that must be tackled holistically to better engage and support all underrepresented groups within our industry. To achieve this, we believe it's essential to openly address the concerns and needs of people from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds while striving to increase equity for all.

The Diverse Leaders Steering Group are the spokespeople for EDI across their sectors and the industry, amplifying the voices of diverse role models across NLA outputs and identifying barriers and solutions for better access and inclusion throughout the built environment. Valuing Diversity is a key pillar of the New London Agenda that highlights London's broad spectrum of individuality as its greatest strength, and the Diverse Leaders Steering Group, alongside NLA, recognise its value and are committed to developing London as a fair and equitable city.

The Diverse Leaders Pledge, launched in 2020 in collaboration with seventeen diversity networks and organisations, is dedicated to making the built environment sector more representative through recruitment, progression, and advocacy. The pledge enables businesses to commit to measurable goals over the coming years that we believe will catalyse change, enabling engagement, action, and progress around diversity and inclusion within the workplace, and fostering collaboration across the built environment industry.

The programme aligns with our cultural calendar of events, collaborating with other organisations to focus on key EDI topics throughout the year. A quarterly Networking series brings together pledge signees, diverse role models, and those seeking better EDI practices to share experiences and good practices.

The NLA Diverse Leaders Network is made up of role models across the industry, pledge signees, and those who are working to create a more, equitable, and inclusive city.

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Diverse Leaders Pledge - Free to sign up

The built environment industry has identified the need to overcome chronic discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, age and socio-economic background to create a strengthened, resilient and representative workforce.

We are inviting you as industry leaders to join us in making a pledge to help make the built environment sector more representative through the recruitment, progression and advocacy of diverse people.

It is free to sign up to our Diverse Leaders Pledge to make it available to everyone, organisations big and small, no matter the budget.

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