Inclusion and Diversity

At WTW, we know that when our individual talents are combined, we unlock our collective potential and create an environment where everyone can be authentic, curious and bold. Building inclusive teams helps leverage our best thinking and make better decisions, be more creative, and improve our ability to help clients solve complex problems. We’re better together because each of us is different.

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WTW’s purpose is to transform tomorrows…And to accomplish this, we need an inclusive culture, where everyone’s heard, everyone’s respected, everyone’s valued.”
Carl HessCEO

Why an inclusive culture is important

At WTW we believe an inclusive culture — where we embrace individual perspectives, experience, insights, and ideas — creates a space where our colleagues are empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Providing an inclusive environment where different ideas and perspectives are respected is critical to our ability to transform tomorrows. This makes us stronger. It’s vital to our success as a company.

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Inclusion and Diversity in action at WTW

Our approach

Our senior leadership team is responsible for our overall talent strategy, which includes our approach to inclusion and diversity (I&D). Our global and regional I&D councils – with direction and support from our leadership team – focus on areas that have the greatest impact for our colleagues and align with our company priorities.

Our approach to building and sustaining an inclusive and high performing culture includes a priority focus on:

Join

Expanding opportunities for talent with a broad range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

Grow

Supporting all colleagues in all stages of career development.

Belong

Promoting an inclusive culture and work environment.

Our approach in practice

Leaders are responsible for fostering and supporting an inclusive culture.
People managers focus on the effective engagement, development and retention of all colleagues.
All colleagues are encouraged to support a culture of inclusivity and belonging.

We work toward supporting inclusion and diversity with the understanding that all our hiring, promotion and other employment decisions are based solely on merit, on an individual basis, without regard to protected characteristics.

Board Diversity

Our Board composition reflects diverse viewpoints, backgrounds, experiences, attributes, industry knowledge and geography. Based on self-identified characteristics:

44%44% of our board of directors identify as female

11%11% of our board of directors identify as LGBT+

11%11% of our board of directors identify as African American and Black

66%66% of directors have non-U.S. citizenship

75%75% of board committee chairs are female and 50% identify as Black or LGBT+

Learn more about our approach in our Sustainability Report.

Global I&D calendar

Our global I&D calendar provides a framework to mark cultural events, which are optional and open to all colleagues. Additionally, our inclusion networks, which are likewise optional and open to all colleagues, are involved in the planning and delivery of our global events.