Whistl appoints Senior Leadership Sponsors for Race, Disability and Women initiatives

Whistl, the UK’s leading logistics specialist in fulfilment, mail and parcels, has appointed Senior Leadership Sponsors to drive internal EDI (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion) initiatives focused on race, disability and female representation within the company.

Mark Lawrenson, Head of Operations, will lead on race diversity within the company.  Whistl is a longstanding member of the Race at Work Charter and is now partnering with Race Equality Matters to implement some of its innovative initiatives to create a better understanding of race inequality. 

The first initiative will be the #MyNameIs solution where employees have the opportunity to have their names spelt phonetically on email signatures, name badges and hi-vis jackets to ensure correct pronunciation. 

Managing Director of International Michael Boulton and Managing Director – of Parcels, Andy Underwood, will lead on disability awareness, further embedding the activities available from Whistl’s membership of Valuable 500 and Disability Confident.

Laura Sanjurgo, Commercial Director - Mail and Fliss O’Hara, Commercial Director - Fulfilment, will lead on female diversity and promote Whistl’s recent membership of Everywoman, whose goal is to advance women’s progression in business.

The Sponsors will work with Whistl’s EDI Forum, which comprises 20 allies from across the company, to embed these activities within the business.