Sodexo’s service operations finance director Amolak Dhariwal is listed in the Empower Top 100 Ethnic Minority Leaders and Sodexo’s head of digital communications Stephen Marshall is named number one of 30 EMpower Top Ethnic Minority Future Leaders.
The EMpower Role Model lists are published annually in partnership with the Financial Times and recognise the achievements of the black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) business community in UK, Ireland, United States and Canada.
Amolak Dhariwal, Sodexo UK & Ireland service operations finance director, said: “The experience of BAME people in the workplace could clearly be different and we exist to help them develop, be promoted and be included.
“It is my personal privilege to have been given the opportunity to lead this within Sodexo UK & Ireland and then to be recognised externally for work key to Sodexo’s diversity and inclusion programme.”
Amolak and Stephen are co-chairs of the Sodexo UK & Ireland Origins employee network, which has a membership of over 300 colleagues. Under Origins Amolak and Stephen launched a Sodexo-wide campaign called ‘My culture and me’, which is aimed at raising cultural awareness of people from different BAME backgrounds within the organisation to create a more inclusive workplace.