Belong Amsterdam Network launch
Are you a senior talent acquisition professional in the Netherlands aiming to elevate your career, connect with individuals from various industries and be a leader in inclusive recruitment?
We are proud to host a networking evening to celebrate the launch of the Belong Amsterdam Network, a community curated by The SR Group Amsterdam, dedicated to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices and fostering inclusive recruitment.
It is an opportunity to share with you our insights and learnings from Belong, and we are delighted to be joined by David Pearson from Pinsent Masons Brook Graham. David was our consultant in the project and is a market-leading expert in DEI strategy and transformation. He will share his insights from Belong and also give some advice on running a more inclusive recruitment process.
The Belong Amsterdam Network is led by Rachael Crocker, Partner, The SR Group, who will be hosting the event alongside Lisanne Muns, Head of Benelux, Frazer Jones.
Event details
Thursday, 7 November | 17:00 – 20:00 CET
The Hoxton Amsterdam
Herengracht 255
1016 BJ
Amsterdam
Netherlands
If you’d like to attend, please register below.
Meet the speaker
david pearson
Principal Consultant
Pinsent Masons Brook Graham
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David is an award-winning leadership and inclusion expert, keynote speaker and presenter, with global experience advising clients on every aspect of diversity & inclusion. His professional background is as an organisational change practitioner, strategy consultant, economist, policy advisor and corporate finance specialist. His senior in-house and consulting roles include Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Corporate Responsibility for Gowling WLG, D&I subject matter expert for KPMG’s People Consulting practice, Director Global Inclusion & Diversity at KPMG and Culture & Engagement Lead, KPMG UK. He has held a number of external appointments, including on Hyatt hotels Global D&I Advisory Panel, the Global Life Sciences Advisory Board and the Business Disability Forum Global Taskforce. He is the creator of the UK’s only in-house inclusive leadership certification. In 2017, he was named as a NatWest Top 10 Diversity Champion and in 2019 was named as Channel 4 Diversity Hero of the Year. In 2021, his team won the Excellence in Equality & Inclusion Award at the People in Law Awards and was shortlisted for D&I Initiative of the Year at the British Legal Awards. He is a past regional and national winner of Boston Consulting Group’s Business Strategy Competition.
David’s select professional experience includes assisting clients to develop D&I strategies and policies, conducting D&I diagnostics, applying D&I maturity model,s undertaking diversity benchmarking, setting diversity targets, delivering inclusive leadership programmes and workshops to Board members, executive teams and employees and advising clients on leading practice for creating effective diversity networks. He led a major culture transformation programme for KPMG UK, including designing values and behaviours workshops and training 100 Ethics Champions to deliver the sessions to 18,000 employees.
