15 Jul 2021
Mention Me Response
4yThank you for your feedback. We agree we’ve still got a lot to do.
As you know, we are actively working to improve our equity, diversity and inclusion. We know we are not where we want to be. We’ve been talking a lot about this internally with the whole team (it’s included in almost every monthly meeting and in our company objectives) and are working with a brilliant Equity, Diversity and Inclusion consultant to work through the material things we need to change to make Mention Me a great place for everyone to be. Your message here only goes to highlight how important this is and how much work we still have to do.
While all five members of the current leadership team are men, we have multiple open roles and are actively looking to increase our diversity as we grow. Our intention is that it will not be this way for long. Meanwhile, we take some pride in the fact that 70% of the management team are women. We’re actively working to promote and grow talented individuals. We see diversity and inclusion as a key pathway to creating a more successful team.
We are already planning to publish our diversity stats on our website, not because we are proud of them, but because we want to hold ourselves accountable and to create an environment where everyone can flourish. So thank you for the feedback and for helping hold us to account. We will continue to strive to do better.
Finally, you raise some issues around treatment of people of colour that we would like to act on. We take this incredibly seriously. We would really appreciate it if you would reach out to Andy or Monique so that you can tell us what you’ve experienced so that we can take action against any discriminatory behaviour directly.