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Structur3dpeople tech

mentoring

diversity

resourcing

Diversity specialists empowering a new generation of female talent into tech

2020 saw a pandemic disrupt businesses globally, turning them into remote working operations overnight, where technology played its’ biggest role; keeping the world connected. As digital transformed the way we worked, lived and socialised, start-ups accelerated at pace to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges being faced. Technology now forms the foundation of most businesses, where diverse perspectives will be driving innovation to new heights. It has never been more important for businesses to recruit the right talent that will keep them ahead in competitive times, creating a workplace where people feel valued and can thrive to their highest potential. HOW OUR STORY HAS EVOLVED

delivering mentoring programmes, upskilling women and recruiting female talent.

Structur3dpeople is a diversity focused business helping organisations to attract, retain and develop talent. It was founded by Rav Bumbra, following a 20-year career in the tech industry, where she witnessed the low numbers of women working in the industry. Driven by her innate passion to support women, she wanted to drive a solution that would benefit both women and employers and one that would positively influence the gender gap.

2020 gave leaders the opportunity to shift mindsets from diversity and inclusion as being just “a nice to have” to that of “it’s a smart thing to do” The pandemic witnessed the most widespread working from home experiment in history. It opened up our conversations with businesses, to discuss how flexible working increased productivity and could help them seize the moment to attract female talent and consider the many options to engage women into the workforce and progress others to senior levels. Leaders started to realise that 2020 gave them an opportunity to shift mindsets from diversity and inclusion as being just “a nice to have” to that of “it’s a smart thing to do.”

Strategies that are driven from the top down, create the vision of what good looks like, where diversity sits at the core to drive innovation. Our work at Structur3dpeople has concentrated on increasing diversity in the workplace. We are regarded as a specialist and provide a range of services to organisations that include, building diversity strategies,

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