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CMI is all about developing and enabling brilliant leaders; giving them the management skills they need to fulfill their own potential and unlock the potential of others. We have been advocating gender balance since 1969 when we first launched our Women in Management.
Comprising CMI Members, this network is not exclusive to women. We encourage our male counterparts to also be agents of change and to become everyday champions of women at work, and to help drive organisational strategies for balance.
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CMI is all about developing and enabling brilliant leaders; giving them the management skills they need to fulfill their own potential and unlock the potential of others. That's why CMI Women exists. We want organisations to embrace gender diversity and put it at the heart of their agenda and business practice.
Here are our core objectives, as well as quick access to equality resources, research and events.
Explore what diverse and inclusive workforces can achieve
Learn to unlock all leadership potential and better recognise ambition
Help raise awareness that inclusion is a key management and leadership competency
Blueprint for Balance
An innovative, open source tool to promote diversity in the workplace where you can contribute, download resources and benchmark your organisation to deliver diversity.
Broken Windows
In many organisations, there remains a gap between rhetoric and reality, with equality in the workplace, take a look at the research here.
CMI Women Events
CMI Women host a variety of events. Catch up with our events here.
Closing the Gender Pay Gap
There are many ways to work flexibly, and this can have an influence on closing the Gender Pay Gap. Take a look at CMI and The GEO's research.
Sponsoring Women's Success Report
Executive leaders’ views on sponsoring and mentoring
In 1969, the CMI Women network was established as ‘Women in Management’ by Eleanor Macdonald, one of the first women to break into UK boardrooms as a director of Unilever group companies. She devoted herself to training in effective management and self-development, having a profound influence on attitudes to women’s education and roles in management.
The network was established in order to promote women in management and to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of great leadership. In 2016, we increased our focus on gender diversity and the benefits that it brings to business by relaunching the Women in Management under the new banner of CMI Women. Since relaunching as CMI Women, we have provided a ‘Blueprint for Balance’ to support our objective of producing the world’s strongest pipeline of women in management.
Gender balance is one of the most effective ways to maximise business performance. Besides obvious benefits for women and their careers, it expands the talent pool for a broader variety of skills and perspectives – allowing businesses to make more effective, well-rounded decisions, and ultimately improve results.
In 2020, the CMI Women network set out to celebrate their successes since the introduction of the 1970 Pay Act and to establish their aspirations for the next 50 years. Whilst impacted by the global pandemic, the network continued to highlight the economic gains to organisations that gender equality in management brings and showcase that gender equality is not just a woman’s issue but something that should concern us all.
In 2020, we saw just how essential this was for a strong economic recovery and to meet the major challenges ahead. CMI Women has supported managers and leaders to instigate and manage change throughout our 50 years, and 2020 was no exception. CMI made managers’ voices heard by calling for gender awareness to be factored into policy decisions taken during the Covid crisis. Through articles in prominent British media, including The Guardian and The Telegraph, we warned that advances made over the last 50 years regarding women in the workplace risked being set back. Speaking up for women in management in this way is a clear example of the important role that CMI plays in the national debate.
CMI’s Level 5 qualification enables managers to understand the business case for equality, diversity & inclusion, and their role in creating inclusive cultures. Take a look.
CMI Members have access to our mentoring service. Showcase role models, develop a mentoring programme, become a mentee or find yourself a mentor here.
Our Community Networks are made up of passionate individuals who come together to advocate for real change in their organisations and industries, find out how.
