Diversity and Inclusion in UK Retail: 2025 Report Launch
For the fifth year, the Diversity & Inclusion Report, driven by research from the MBS Group and the British Retail Consortium, explores the status of diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the retail sector today. A product of extensive interviews with CEOs, HRDs and Chairs across the industry, it updates on insights and progress five years on from the original report in 2021.
The latest report also builds on the progress of the D&I Charter, a change programme developed in collaboration with our D&I partners, RPC LLP. The Charter acts as a forum for members to collaborate and share best practice, and provides signatories with exclusive access to tailored roundtables covering a diverse range of topics to help members with their D&I strategies.
In this webinar, together with the MBS Group team, we will explore key findings from the 2025 Diversity & Inclusion in UK Retail report, welcoming questions and feedback from attendees.
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Explore key findings from the 2025 Diversity & Inclusion in UK Retail report
Updates on insights and progress five years on from the original report in 2021
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Helen Dickinson OBE
CEO | BRC
Helen leads the team and sets the strategic direction of the BRC. She joined in January 2013 and has been working with retailers for over 25 years. In 2016 she was awarded an OBE for Services to Retail.
Helen is passionate about diversity and inclusion in retail, she acts as the BRC’s Social Mobility Commission ambassador and was previously the Chair of Working Chance, a charity helping women offenders find employment. She is on the advisory board for Pennies, a charity which offers digital charity boxes to businesses, and was previously UK Head of Retail at KPMG.
Elliott Goldstein
Managing Partner | The MBS Group
Elliott is the managing partner at The MBS Group. He specialises in NED, CEO, MD and senior functional roles across private and public companies – with a focus on Retail, Travel, Leisure, Hospitality and Consumer Goods businesses. He is passionate about making sure that MBS always exceeds clients’ expectations, and that it is the search consultancy of choice for consumer executive searches.
Over the last 3 years, he has completed assignments in over 20 countries around the world – and is proud to lead MBS’s work on diversity across all our practices.
Having started his career with Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Elliott later became CEO of a luxury cosmetics brand and CEO of a respected fashion label. He holds a first-class degree with honours in Geography from Brasenose College, Oxford, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Elliott is also a NED at Time Products (the owner of the Sekonda and Accurist watch brands), and is a founding member of the Advisory Board’s of Women in Hospitality, Travel and Leisure (WiHTL) and of Pennies, the UK’s leading fintech charity.
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