Five minutes with: Helen Tucker, Human Resources Director at Procter & Gamble

Helen Tucker, Human Resources Director at Procter & Gamble (P&G), discusses the importance of staff training to create an inclusive environment and develop future leaders…

We think that diversity delivers better business results, which is why we take gender and diversity training very seriously. It has now become compulsory for all management courses to include diversity training.  

All managers are expected to develop a culture that fosters inclusion within their teams. Last year we introduced the Intentionally Inclusive Leadership Course for senior leaders that builds the competencies and behaviours necessary for successful inclusive leadership. Through the course, senior leaders are enabled to make truly unbiased judgments and decisions about team member’s potential and performance.  

We also run a series of diversity courses that builds both the capability of both managers and employees in various areas of diversity and inclusion, under our ‘@work’ branding which has been intentionally designed to draw focus and attention to these topics. Some examples include ‘Cultures@Work’, ‘People with Disabilities@work’, ‘GABLE@work’ (covering LGBT), ‘Flex@work’ (covering flexible work arrangements), and ‘Gender@work’.