by Bernie English
A LIMERICK company has achieved gender balance on its senior management team following the recent appointment of two new directors.
Ingenium, a global management consultancy firm headquartered in Limerick, has announced the appointment of Olivia Hayes as Director of Youth Development and Caroline Murphy as Director of Human Performance. They will both report directly to company chief executive Dr James Ring.
With these new appointments, Ingenium has achieved an equal split on its senior team in terms of gender diversity for the first time since it was established in 2015.
And, according to Dr Ring, it marks an important milestone for the company in its bid to promote and sustain diversity in the workplace.
He is now calling on other Irish businesses to examine their diversity strategies and practices, to ensure they are building and maintaining a fair and equal work environment.
“Diversity in business is not just a ‘nice to have’ idea to mention on a company website. It is a real competitive edge to be able to draw from a diverse array of ideas, skills and approaches to challenges.
“Companies that don’t realise this will likely find themselves left behind. We are extremely proud at Ingenium to have achieved the milestone of an equal gender split on our company’s senior team.”
In her new role, Olivia Hayes will plan and oversee activities surrounding the Pathway Programme, the firm’s youth performance solution for students in their senior cycle of secondary school, and in their early years of university, college or post leaving cert courses.
Caroline Murphy will oversee Ingenium’s Human Performance Team, which provides a broad range of services across the entire employee life cycle which add direct value to client businesses by improving human performance in the workplace.
