IWD: exploring the networks and how you can support or be supported@jaguar @landrover

Jaguar land rer celebrates International women's week with roaring enthusiasm proving that our commitment to diversity is as powerful as our engines from designing sliek vehicles that defy stereotypes to empowering women in leadership roles we are steering towards a future where every week is an opportunity to accelerate equality buckle up for a ride through empowerment Innovation and a dash of excitement because at glr we believe in shifting gears towards a more inclusive Horizon the international women's week which kicked off with a conversation with winning women putting yourself forward for opportunity was hosted by Amma AA sapor featuring barara BM Ana nitu Montero CLA telfa the experienced lead for my opportunities I hope I haven't murdered any names you need to hear their stories and how they have evolved the week so many of the networks and individuals connecting making the event a success lots of people posted about it the important thing is that at jlr International women's week it wasn't just about horow it's about empowering every gear in the transmission of diversity the workplace is a Runway where women take the driver's seat steering towards success with elegance and resilience from boardroom brainstorming sessions to the garage ban we are shifting stereotypes faster than an ftype on a straight away in this celebration Jr proves that that diversity isn't an optional accessory it's a standard feature forget the glass selling we have installed panoramic sunroofs to let every woman's Brilliance shine so whether you navigating the corporate landscape of the toughest off-road terrain jlr is driving the conversation because when women Thrive the entire engine Roars with pride we stop working in silos but Foster Unity diversity equity and inclusion for everyone you can hear from most of the different networks represented in Jr or see pictures of them this initiative portrays Jr as a learning organization and not just as a great place to work but as an example to the world thanks Natasha for the opportunity and everyone that featured me and those who made a big de out of us intentionally and internationally from Adrian M the CEO at Jr toas sakala in the UK and NES Patel in India to mention a few look out for nachiket initiative on emotional cultural intelligence and listen to what individuals and the network have got to say to find out how you can get involved also if you would like to watch some of interviews I've had with individuals and you'd like to participate to share your culture interests what you do comment git and I will be in touch at some point the video is for all of us it's important that we live out the reality of inclusion by coming out of our silos and actually Integra in our world above all remember you're unique and you can shine now Jem I would like to appreciate all those that had conversations with me at glr you can really leave the exceptional with soul as we reimagine our strategies on our exceptional journey through customer love unity Integrity growth impact creating a mindset that inspires understanding collaboration learning and flexibility to fulfill our potential to be the greatest you are special now Jem cheers to a week where the acceleration of equality is in high gear enjoy as you hear from other creators I love you here by the way thank you very much I'm W part of the Christian Network within J sure you heard of us we had a conference a couple of weeks ago and it was absolutely amazing and I will invite everyone to be a part of it Christians in the workplace is an amazing experience if you see that's all about us Christians are look at integrating and work that's a mission statement hi I'm grishma Warrior I am uh the project planner in vle programs I'm here to attend this um Excellence event under uh International women's day it was such a lovely event with uh all lovely speakers from different areas and company thank you and uh was so nice to meet you board thank you hi I'm Gina I'm a durability and robustness test engineer uh I'm going to talk this afternoon about uh getting the next generation of women involved and I'm really excited to listen to the talk and figure out how I can help get the Next Generation and get more women into engineering so my name is W um and I am an occupational health advisor we're called senior Workplace Health advisors at jlr um I'm based over in okel so if you ever need um any support around sort of workplace adjustments or if you're struggling with um a health condition health issue whilst you're in work that may be impacting you in work or anything work related that may be impacting your health then we're the people to come to but speak to your manager for a referral um get referred into to us and then we can see how we can support you um as best as we can so we're a people's service we want to encourage a healthy Workforce um and health and well-being generally um within jlr because a healthy Workforce is a productive Workforce and happy homes as well so but International women's day I must say I've been impressed really um enjoyed it the vibe here is is just great um it's very Soulful and um very Lively um and I'm very proud to you know to be honored in this day so thank you to whoever came up with the idea and and happy International Women's Day to everyone thank you byebye hi my name is Judith I'm um from the vehicle programs business office um I'm also one of the co-chairs of neurodiversity matters which is a um a new group which is part of shine it's a subgroup of of shine and it's to particularly give a focus on Edis conditions and how we can support them and be a neurodiverse friendly work you how long have you been with J oh nearly 10 years have you found it um I definitely recognize what people are saying that we have evolved over the last few years I think um there was uh something of a culture to begin with where I don't think it was very um inclusive um and since we have had um networks for diversity I think I've seen a big change we seeing people who are very conscious now about how they include people and how they how the way that they behave affects people and I think these sorts of events are great because you can learn so much more about things like neurod conditions um disability um and how other people's experiences are in the workplace and how you can help with those good afternoon my name is Ashley kak and I work in powert train engineering uh I'm one of the G site champions for the shine disability Network so one of the Allies uh joined about two years ago to the network just gain better understanding of disability and and how we can work together in a better more inclusive way and how have you found it working Jr um I think within jlr uh yeah that the changing culture and that uh focus on inclusion and understanding each other better is a real positive I've seen big change um and I'm Julie Monahan and I've been in the company for 29 years W yeah I se it come a long way from um where we was long time show but even then I found quite supportive so I've been through I did engineering through ja a degree through ja when I had the whole year off when I was pregnant and had my my second child that came in having these networks also brings a greater awareness so lots of um things I don't that I never knew years ago um and it just educates and teaches people about how different everybody is how we can be more inclusive people so basically one doesn't need dis ability to be part of shine does one no so I'm part of the network because I look after apprentices at Fenn um and so I have lots of different people coming through various disabilities some they come in and they know they've got those disabilities and some they get Di those who are those with me or through later on in life and it helps me as a supervisor to help them have a better experience through the apprenti program and then get them ready to set up on the way I my job I love seeing them grow and I love seeing them come through especially with the apprenti program um seeing them come through and grow and get gain confidence and not to share things and say you know how they feel about Stu so yeah I love it my name isti p and Musa most guys call me Pelle I'm with a catering agency CSI so we are part of the catering agency and we've come to give you guys some sweet treats all of the good stuff for international women's day I know there's about 400 out of you but all of you guys are going to have some beautiful food um obviously got our fantastic chefs in the back but yeah for now we're just serving coffees making sure that you guys are having a good time yeah all right uh my name is I've been in Jr now for 16 months so a little bit over e here I work in systems engineering in the systems engineering group helping the company develop better cars architect better vehicles and transition towards our electric future uh it's been quite an amazing journey uh come here from a different country I used to live in France so it's discovering uh the new country living in the UK uh Jr is by far the most diverse uh company I've ever worked for um which was amazing as a foreigner I'm Brazilian I really felt welcome uh and I really felt that the company took Extra Care in in making sure that this this diverse space is also inclusive okay can you say hello bye and thank you in two languages since I know you speak in French and hi my name is Glenford Russell um I've been with the business now believe it or not 25 years I can't even believe it myself last Christmas was 25 years I am a phographer and video filmmaker so I've been here when I first started I was designing web pages back then and then gradually moved up and then now we basically support the board of directors and everybody in the business making corporate videos and taking professional pictures so I'm here now at the international women's day and I've absolutely loved it seeing a lot of faces and see my work up on a big like in a 5ot stand it was amazing really is amazing and there's some lovely people that I'm working with today thing here and H and what do you do I'm a project leader in vehicle programs and uh I'm a it manager I was invited to represent the seek Network and um as a followup seek I've got many um women role models from the SE plate and it was an opportunity for me to Showcase these amazing role models and that's why I'm here today yeah yeah and I just supporting uh leadership as well in their Vision to make jlr a really distinctive place to work and um that is building upon the diversity of inclusion in jlr that we are promoting so jlr will become you know somewhere everybody wants to come and work here and we attract the best talent in jlr because it really is a great place to work and how long have you been here uh 5 and a half years I've been 12 years what advice do you have to give to people who just joining be your authentic self Au Jr really allows us to be our authentic s and we're supporting you just what's going on here today is uh an example of how jlr as a business is is supporting our people to be themselves and supporting great um initiatives like International women's day and we love it we love it so um I've joined many a cours um I think uh some the initiative that they do especially with when it comes to empowering women and and um you know just race and ethnic minorities I think is amazing um I've networked with um Tiffany Barn since then she's kind of my unofficial mentor and uh but she's she's a great role model to have we can we need more Role Models like Tiffany bars in this business and uh thank you to a for just doing what we do so Hindu sik yeah yeah we're different and we share a lot of culture and that's where like they say with African uh culture a whole Africa shares a culture but there's a lot of differences within that culture it's the same with um sism and Hinduism because in Hinduism there is something called as Idol workship which I feel uh Sikhism doesn't uh respect but the bottom line Remains the Same that so on a International women's day uh the message from Hindu network is it's not a day for women it's a day for actually men to realize what wrong they are doing and are they really thinking on the right platform so on a women's day ideally we should have had more men promoting the event rather than women how they want to bring women to a platform where they can truly call themselves as ambassadors of empowerment Hinduism also as a way of life not as a religion we are not trying to impose anything on anyone so we have started an initiative of sharing uh digital souvenir which are nothing but basically presentations of the cultures of the countries from where all our uh J colleagues come fromes a platform to everyone uh to share about their cultures and by that way people who are reading it uh get a chance to know about that country's culture because everyone cannot visit every country in their lifetime and for uh a successful organization to truly grow and prosper they need to learn from crosscultural sharings and learnings because any one culture I feel cannot have good of every uh aspect so if we are open-minded and are willing to learn from other cultures then reading digital souvenir of other cultures will help people understand what that country wants to bring to the platform and if we try and show that Zeal enthusiasm to learn from different cultures then we truly achieve what we call it as emotional cultural intelligence and it goes in a long run to achieve uh the real satisfaction of people in their minds yeah so I'm Simon gred so um I'm a seating engineer at Jaguar Land Rover I've been at Jaguar Land Rover 22 years ago and a few weeks after joining I found out about the Christian group that was when I was in Whitley and um I went along I enjoyed it it was meeting with Christians praying and reading the Bible after a few weeks of being there U the person who was leading unfortunately left the company so they asked anyone want to lead I said oh okay I'll give it a go when we joined Land Rover as well a found his Christian group there so I've been leading it ever since um we've been having a having a great time um the last few years um diversity equity and inclusion come Prett important jagu land R and so we've been getting lots of support from the company so the network is growing and uh we're doing more and more events and really really good times okay thank uh my name is Pamela I am from Master in a today is international women's day it's been such an amazing um opportunity to come out and meet very incented and inspirational women um we've had a session in Adas in a in my building and we're here in the Triangle for another one the chief gave us flowers which was really good um it's really really inspirational to see Gerald out take this personally and also to inform women what we're all doing here this is the 112th women's day international celebration it's been on for over a decade and I want to say this is really really beautiful so my name is Sophie burn I work in Jaguar Lang Rover experience I've been M for four month not long technically in so how have you found it so far fantastic yeah very inclusive very welcoming very uh uh dynamic yeah enjoying enjoying every second and what were you doing before then so I've always worked in events but in a different um with different hats so business management and events or event management itself y can you tell about bit more about ride and drive so basically ride and drive is an opportunity for um teams small or large to experience the cars firsthand so we have a team of 17 instructors that are working with us today for this for this wave of events W so 8 days worth of drives and within that the um members of the team so internal teams get to experience Vehicles they do an element of dynamic high speed track driving and then also off-roading as well oh okay so it's getting them firsthand experience of the actual Vehicles how do we sign up so basically it is an initiative that can be arranged for any Department um as long as the there is budgets there for it so the ll6 ll5 will need to put that budget in place spend on the people um generally towards the end of the quarter there's some money left over in those people pots it's up to the the kind of Senior Management to arrange the events and then we come in hi my name is otavio uh I'm current working at Global product strategy um as product analyst and um I'm originally from Brazil and I'm part of the reach uh Network at jlr right now we have a campaign going on which is uh help people put each together 10 off manual washing machines and support people in yis Borg um you know to improve their experience on saving water saving time and being able to get more time to their family and you know helping the community otherwise and how has the donations been so far the donations has been good uh but there's still a long way to go so if there's anyone who can help us just you know it's going to Care Cod and helping us getting to the to the Target how would people get in touch with you if they needed to so you can find us in our ymer group uh so search for reach on the Y page which is now engaged uh and you're going to be able to see all the events that we're putting together uh keep posted you know with with everything that we we do and every every achievement we can do at reach there's also SharePoint if you go to the homepage you'll be able to search for reach as well and get to our SharePoint which has more informations more contacts and other the names that you can get in touch with great hi my name is Ron Sue uh I'm the business manager on the rich I've been we CH off 27 years it it's been an amazing journey and I think that's why after 27 years I'm still here seeing our business have come such a long way and uh very very encouraging and regardless of network or any other I just want to say hooray to all of the amazing women uh in Jal and also to say a big thank you for all of the amazing men in Jaa who support and understand us let's Capt one of them yeah I just want to say Happy International women's day thank you hi my name is Cal I'm Jr as a product owner and it's happy to be here and working with the really talented people around the organization especially with you part as well around one and a half year ago and I joined the engine delivery platform team and from there I'm happily after be working here it's a bit challenging uh but every challenge comes with the award as we all know and I think we are picking up the rewards one by one get into your job what advice would you give to anybody that wants to um be flexible be open-minded and as well as be really kind of cous what you're doing in the organizations and you know in your in your title in your job area uh the key thing is to be curious and always research the lightest Trends which will get you whatever you need to be in the long term the consistency as well thank when did I join Jr um I think it's what in 2009 you've done a lot of things with women diversity and inclusion can you just talk briefly aboutour that uh within diversity equality and inclusion that is part of my passion and part of my belief as I'm in that wor background myself and I found that we are in the better position however so far is still not good enough to to like to have people with their work back out to be able to be there auen things so um my name is Nicole and I work in purchasing for paint equipment and when did you join glr I joined J in December 2022 um it's been interesting it's been a learning experience it's been um a lot of new experiences and it's been a lot of finding my feet in a bigger organ and the one of previously work so we are representing a today as part of international women's day um we have a designated Channel within our Network called winning women um which really Champions women and the efforts that they put in all year round obviously to the ni day to celebrate them but we like to do it all throughout the year um we like to focus on inclusion and really promoting the African Caribbean culture um and also touching on other matters that are relevant to everyone such as matters and wellbeing okay thank you oh hi my name is Dion I'm based at solo I'm currently working on the Jaa project uh the manufacturing process engineer I've been with jlr 3 years now how do you find diversity equity and inclusion I find that it is we still have some means to go but it is rich in the the the infusiasm to get there there's opportunities available um it's just getting the information across that the opportunities are available and ensuring that we all have an equal right to to be able to apply and get those opportunities how you call on International women's day I've absolutely love being here seeing the the military choir networking talking to people meeting new faces like Nicole um I feel like I've made made actual friends today which is nice hi my name is Nicole Harrison I'm a vehle programs manager at Jr I've been here for 8 years the Journey's been tough I mean I think I've seen a lot of change in the space space of 8 years you know when I started the language and a lot of the relationships and how employees were treated weren't 100% correct and inclusive or diverse and um definitely not Equitable but I can see that there's been Improvement we've still got a long way to go there's still a lot of work that needs to be done in terms of equity within the business but I'm hopeful that it can be done yeah so my name is Zoe I'm one of the engagement leads for wom and engineering and I'm El blard I'm the external collaboration lead for I've been here just under 12 I've been here for about 5 years now so women in N is a really good committee to be involved in because we uh cover loads of different networks uh work collaborative with different networks uh and we cover a lot of different departments it's really good way to meet new people especially if you're coming in new to the business we're trying to inspire women to really like reach out to each other and and also know that they can grow within the business as well it's it's really about including women know from every background into the network and be they can come and visitors on the stand today um sign up for it or they can request access to our y page and we can send them all the details and they can get in involved however they want how have you found the international women's day so far it's been really good it's been great to meet new people um Network a little bit and the talks have been really good there's been a lot of attendance really it was really nice to see a lot of different people all the networks as well all I've learned a lot about the different networks really inspiring thank you hi my name is Lee Walker and I'm the uh director for current customer quality as as well as the uh executive sponsor for uh the African Caribbean Heritage uh Network and so what inspired you to be the sponsor for the a network uh I think I just um it was something I felt passionate about and actually gave me a real great opportunity to meet people in the business that I wouldn't normally meet so um it's helped me to expand my network CU I'm relatively new to the business um and I think I I'd like the fact that we are looking to enhance the equality for all and how has your journey been so far with glr fantastic I've loved it I've been here 18 months now it's I feel like I really belong it's a place that I want to be um I love the way the culture is changing and the fact that we're are celebrating so many different things how's the journey been with diversity equity and inclusion since you joined it's a massive journey I think it's it's really we're we're on a path we're not we're certainly not there yet but what I see is that every day we're doing something different and something better I see you're very um inclusive because I knew you on the walk and talk can you talk a bit about walk and talk yeah I I walk and talk is is one of my passions and mental health is also one of my passions and I think you know I I use the walk and talk again to expand my network that's how we met it's a really good place to kind of break down the silos in the business absolutely because it's people that you wouldn't normally come into contact with dayto day and I've learned so much and we share information and pass information on it it's a it's a really excellent initiative and I'm all the time can you greet Us in German since you speak some German oh my DCH is n so good so kind to feel he Good Morgan Morgan thank you my name is Myra um and I work as a Sal engineer and a scrum master so I'm in um Power TR uh I've been at Jr for a year and a half now um I love working at J um I think it's amazing that we have the opportunity to um celebrate days like this like International women women's day um to have Network to have J to have um uh so I'm part of the um Islamic Society Network we have um multiple societies set up for anything you can think of and it's just great to be a part of a culture that um appreciates that hi my name is to Baba I'm a senior cost engineer in chess City I've been in glr for 9 years it has been amazing it is quite a funny job that I have it has a lot of interaction with purchasing and suppliers so there is no boring moment mented my job how did you get into it uh I've been a cost engineer for about 12 years now so I was a cost engineer in Ros Royce before I joined uh Jr um so the cost engineering department in Rolls-Royce actually vanished and they basically decommissioned us but I wanted to continue as a cost engineer in my uh as in my career so I joined glr um what would you say about the international women's day I think it is a very encouraging initiative basically being a technical company and engineering company it is a fact that it is Nationwide um worry not right now that women should work into stem uh subjects and it is being promoted nationally so we should do something within our organization as well to promote that and also uh International woman day is to align women needs according to the company culture so it is a encouraging initiative in my opinion okay thank you I'm pran uh I work for functional safety team in propulsion and controls and uh uh I'm really happy to be a part of the uh I find it really uh I really enjoy the international woman and uh the happenings that is around really glad to be here how long have you been with J uh just four months oh that's good how have you found the journey so far yeah really great all right I'm enjoying okay great thank you hi my name is Peter I work in the sustainability office I'm responsible for decarbonization looking at the levers that we can p so that we reduce our impact on the climate I also look at life cycle assessment which is basically uh looking at the environment uh impact of products from the extraction phase up to the production stage up to the stage where we actually distribute the vehicles to the customers as well as the end of Life of that vehicle uh I'm mostly involved in this work stream in terms of developing methodologies for calculation as well as uh looking at Future legislation how they will impact the organization I've been with Jaya is coming to one year 4 months now and it's been an exciting Journey learning a lot of new things meeting a lot of uh colleagues with different expertise but most importantly I've worked with apprenticeship in the different apprenticeship program in terms of mentoring them and also equipping them um with training courses I've enjoyed the women's International day especially when they talked about psychological safety and some of the challenges that uh different people with uh different disabilities including hidden disabilities actually encounter and how they manage to to get around them and my my the role that I can play in in that space and how would you advise anybody who wants to get into your room what would you tell them to do so I've always had a passionate for sustainability I started my career in research and development then I moved into Consultants uh where I was helping a lot of different companies along their sustainability Journey then I joined J to focus more on uh how we can improve our supply chain what qualification did you have to have to be in what you're doing today I started chemical engineering and as I said uh I was working in research and development then to top that I got sort of more interested in sustainability so I started to look to do courses that were more tailored to sustainability one of the courses that I did was uh an MBA which sort of rounded my my my skills but I also focused more on uh business sustainability management which helped quite a lot in terms of um especially for strategy development but also for engaging with different stakeholders which country are you from originally uh I was born in Zimbabwe and I came to the UK for further studies and after feather studies I started my journey as a research scient I can speak sha can speak de can you say hello goodbye thank you in is is how are you so one thing I really appreciate is when people look out for everyone else and that includes new starters like me as well uh so what I found to be very useful was when someone stopped by and took time from their own time to just explain to me what all the acronyms meant cuz for me this is my first time at a big company and you know to get up to speed with some of the acronyms and in fact then to get up to speed with the things they're talking about there's like two whole barriers there for me so um that was something that was challenging definitely in the first few days but uh you like really friendly colleagues can really help you out uh so it's all about just creating those connections and finding the right sort of person to be like okay look can you help me with this uh because if you're struggling with something you should definitely ask for help uh for it and as uh Thomas said in our town hall meeting earlier today the earlier the better uh so I think that like speaking up about something that you're struggling in with with the right people will really get you uh to a better place uh thank you this is my personal initiative towards learning growing and sharing and independent of any organization you can find out my wise in the playlist I try to capture every network but didn't get to speak to everyone not all recordings may have been used for various reasons but I hope you have enjoyed this if you'd like to join an independent network of agile practitioners or you need support in any way please feel free to reach out to me or comment cop until next time catch you later but don't throw yourselves smash it now Jim subscribe to toy gold smash the of living subscribed to the gym together let's 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