Synergy through effective partnerships...

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Synergy through effective partnerships.

Bristol Business School, the University of the West of England

Creative Metier is an Associate of the Bristol Business School, the University of the West of England

Renowned for excellence

Bristol Business School is one of the UK’s leading new university business schools with a comprehensive academic provision, a strong regional and national position and an increasing international reputation. It is one of the largest schools in the UK with around 4000 students and 200 staff.

Renowned for the quality of their teaching they are also widely regarded as one of the leading new universities for research. Bristol Business School has received accolades from many professional bodies: the MBA programme is one of an elite group in the country to have been accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA).  Bristol Business School has been recognised as a Centre of Excellence by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and they are also a Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) Learning quality partner.

There is a lively culture of practically-orientated research that feeds into their teaching and delivers expertise and insight to individuals and organisations regionally, nationally and internationally. The Business School is home to a number of influential centres of excellence undertaking world-class research and consultancy in Employment Studies, Global Finance, Leadership and Organisational Ethics, Management Accounting and Social Marketing.

There is a thriving PhD community at the Business School and their research training is recognised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 

Find out more about Bristol Business School at: http://www.uwe.ac.uk/bbs/about/intro.shtml

Brook Graham LLP

Brook Graham LLP is a global Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) consulting firm, headquartered in the UK. The company was founded in 2004 by Lesley Brook and Jacey Graham, both of whom have extensive corporate experience in the financial services and oil & gas sectors. Working with a team of talented associates they provide a comprehensive range of D & I solutions which deliver real business value and are tailored to meet clients' specific needs.

Brook Graham’s clients include leading-edge, multinational corporations for whom they have worked on a very broad range of D&I projects and assignments, such as O2/Telefoncia, Thomson Reuters, PepsiCo International, Shell, Standard Chartered Bank, PWC, TNT, BG Group, G4S, ABN AMRO, Sodexo, Sara Lee International, BP, Novozymes, Ernst & Young, Campbell’s Soup, Microsoft, G4S, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and HSBC.

Work with these clients has involved everything from getting D&I onto the corporate agenda at a strategic level, to working on very specific implementation programmes to build diverse talent pipelines and more inclusive organisational cultures.

Find out more about Brook Graham at www.brookgraham.com

Career Innovation Company (Ci)

Creative Metier partners with Ci to offer face to face and virtual coaching to Ci clients.

The Career Innovation Company (Ci) is a catalyst organisation, working with some of the world’s best-known employers to help them increase business agility and gain recognition as inspiring places to work.

Our approach uses a powerful mix of fresh research insights, collaborative events and high-impact online career and leadership tools. These help organisations and individuals to understand today’s dynamic workplace and develop appropriate career strategies: Building a sense of purpose, introducing new ways of working and agreeing an explicit career partnership that works well for both parties.

The result of this is an agile workplace that inspires people, enhances collaboration and delivers the right capabilities in the right place at the right time.

Resource Management

Resource Management are experts in Talent Management and Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO). As a Managed Service Provider (MSP), we deliver total resourcing solutions to businesses of all sizes – making their resourcing strategy real.

Our solutions act as an extension of HR and operational business units, taking control of permanent recruitment and contingent workforce management.

Resource Management’s permanent recruitment model specialises in attracting applicants, managing response and candidate short-listing and we can provide a range of solutions, from complete managed services to short-term project-based assistance. Our particular strengths are in developing client recruitment brands, the creation of ‘talent pools’, improving internal mobility and reducing the cost of recruitment.

Our contingent workforce management model focuses on contract, interim and temporary staff and ensures that businesses are getting value for money and are fully compliant.

We operate across multiple disciplines and sectors with clients including Lloyds Banking Group, RSA, Reckitt Benckiser and Sovereign Housing Group.

For further information please see http://www.resource-management.co.uk.

Women's World Banking

Women’s World Banking (WWB) is a leading global network of 40 microfinance providers and banks, working in 28 countries to bring financial products and services to low-income entrepreneurs, especially women. The network is supported by an international team of experts based in New York who deliver expertise in product design and distribution, access to capital markets, and customer care and insight. The network serves over 20 million micro-entrepreneurs.  For more information on WWB, please visit its website at http://www.womensworldbanking.org.

Women’s World Banking and the MasterCard Foundation have established the Center for Microfinance Leadership to promote world-class leadership and management practices throughout the microfinance sector. The Center will work with founder partners, the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and with Creative Metier, to design and deliver executive education programs focused on cultivating principled, visionary leaders in microfinance.  WWB will also expand its pioneering work in building workforce diversity in microfinance institutions through the Center, partnering with a select set of leading microfinance institutions to expand opportunities for all qualified staff, regardless of gender.