IPA Talent and Diversity Hub

Associate Director, Diversity at IPA

Talent Acquisition and Diversity & Inclusion Director at Billion Dollar Boy

Managing Partner, Insight, Data Solutions & Marketing at UM London

Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Ogilvy UK

Vicki Holgate

Executive Strategy Director (Government Comms) at MullenLowe

Operations Director & Co-Lead, DE&I at PHD Global

Fiona McArthur

Chief Growth Officer EMEA at Dentsu Creative

Chief Operating & Inclusion Officer at RAPP

Fleur Stoppani

Managing Director at Mindshare

Head of Growth at Saatchi and Saatchi

The ‘industry’s open day’ aims to introduce new, potentially unconsidered, career options to school and college leavers, and to provide agencies with an audience of fresh, diverse talent.

The IPA iList celebrates the role models who are changing our industry for the better by challenging inclusivity at every level and from every background and gives them a platform to share best practice.

Stepping into the Spotlight aims to empower and offer success strategies at work through a series of workshops and training sessions – helping our attendees take their career to the next level.

Since the 1960’s The IPA has undertaken a series of benchmark surveys among member agencies. These surveys help you benchmark your agency against others in relation to financial and HR related factors.

We are lucky to have many incredible organisations supporting our sector in a number of different ways. Learn more about the vibrant, highly active community within adland in the UK that is working with agencies.

Download the results of UK Advertising’s biggest industry-wide survey, created by the Advertising Association, IPA, ISBA and Kantar.

BRiM (Black Representation in Marketing) is a cross-industry initiative to improve the representation of Black people in marketing.

This podcast tackles big talent issues in our industry, through interviews with specialists, and offers tangible insights and takeaways for agency staff to implement in their own organisations.

The Talent & Diversity Conference brings the industry together to listen, discuss and share the ways we can take charge of how we attract, develop and retain our existing and new talent and create inclusive workspaces.

A Future of Fairness is designed as a handbook to help you understand the composition and the make-up of our industry.It gives brands and agencies a series of tangible actions to consider on diversity and inclusion.

Retaining top and diverse talent is a huge challenge. Stay interviews (as opposed to exit interviews) invest time and effort into exploring how staff are currently feeling and doing to help them thrive.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion affects every stage of creating work, from the initial client brief through to the final advertising material. Everyone should be aware of all verbal and written language used.

This glossary is taken from Inclusion Works by Hive Learning - the award-winning peer learning platform.

Guidance explaining the separate legal concepts of equal pay and gender pay gaps, together with the key requirements for employers.

IPA CPD Adviser Gwyn March provides an extensive list of initiatives and services that help you as an employer to reach and recruit underrepresented groups.

We are proud to have the ad industry represented with a profile on ERIC which tells potential entrants to our agencies how diverse Gen Zs landed their careers, about life in agencies and live jobs.

Since 1960 the IPA has charted overall employee numbers, working practices, staff turnover, as well as looking at the breakdown by gender, ethnic diversity, age and seniority.

The WFA launches their new DEI Charter for Change, highlighting the key steps that all global organisations need to take to ensure that our industry is truly diverse, equitable and inclusive.

Hiring an apprentice is a productive and effective way to grow talent and develop a motivated, skilled and qualified workforce helping to address diversification and inclusivity in your agencies.

Based on data from more than 333 companies employing more than 12 million people, the Women in the Workplace report provides an overview of the state of work for women.

Fiona Skinner, Founder and Director, The Fertility Coaching Company explores options for both men and women to make combining career and fertility plans possible.

At any one moment, there are up to 15.5 million women experiencing menopause. Dark Horses' menopause policy is open-source and can be used or adapted to fit your organisation.

Key legal issues associated with the menopause at work; what employers can learn from the latest employment tribunal decisions and how agencies can best support employees.

An example template menopause policy, setting out an employer’s approach to supporting employees who are impacted by the menopause.

The importance of integrating accessibility throughout your campaign development process, and how you can do so immediately.

This qualification will help you gain a deep understanding of the challenges we need to overcome and the behaviours we need to change for a more diverse and inclusive advertising industry.

Unveiled at the IPA Talent & Diversity Conference and presented by Jack Tadman from Opinium compares and contrasts workplace cultures in the advertising industry to the wider working world.

HR Consultant Mary Budd reflects on the return to the office and asks if we need to rethink what the office is for as more and more people demand the freedom to work in a way that works for them.

This IPA Training Forum discusses why wellbeing at work needs to be taken seriously, and the actions you can take to improve the productivity and happiness of your employees.

Industry-experienced speakers provide bespoke guidance on sickness absence management, dealing with mental health issues and successful strategies for promoting workplace well-being.

Our holistic guide explains the implications of fertility treatment in the workplace, covering time off, when an employee is deemed pregnant during fertility treatment and resources to best support your employees.

We asked the iList finalists in the earlier stages of their career what leaders should bring to the D&I agenda. With a fresh outlook untainted by years of legacy practice and attitudes, we gave them a platform to share their ideas.

If you are wondering where to start on your DE&I journey, read the 10 “nickable ideas” among the initiatives, approach and advice from this year's iList. We encourage you to take these ideas and make them your own.

Jacob Knox-Hooke, Operations Director at PHD writes about the impactful changes made at PHD Global to support employees at their career and life stages.

Lisa Thompson, Business Director Strategy & Planning at Wavemaker about the things adland can do to support those from working-class households.

Stu Outhwaite-Noel, CCO & Founder at Creature and White Crow, explains why we are people first and work in advertising second - there is nothing wrong in wanting to create stand-out work, but everything wrong in trampling over people’s lives to get there.

Ewen MacPherson, Group Chief People Officer at Havas UK explores why it might be the company’s responsibility to try and fix society’s problems with the company being redefined as a collective of citizens.