Following the success of Amplify, our senior leadership programme for 17 People of Colour, we brought this back in 2023. This time the programme supercharged the leadership potential of 11 Deaf, Disabled and Neurodivergent colleagues. The programme involved coaching, leadership sessions and individual sponsorship by ITV’s Management Board. Last year’s Amplifiers all continue to excel; participants include Sonny Hanley, promoted to Director of ITV Academy, Enita Kang, now Chief of Staff in the CEO Office, and Priya Singh, promoted to Director of Operations, Commissioning and Content. To enable and encourage colleagues to be as inclusive as possible, we offer various guides, resources and opportunities. This includes our Inclusive Language Guide, an internal tool to create a shared way to communicate inclusively, co-created with our colleague networks, industry experts and Cultural Advisory Council. Colleagues have accessed the guide over 3,000 times in 2023. We also released our new Event Inclusion and Access Guidelines, which help ITV, our partners, and suppliers make our biggest events inclusive and accessible. Amplify 2.0 ITV CYMRU WALES GROWS ITS PARTNERSHIP WITH MENCAP ITV Cymru Wales continued to grow its partnership with UK learning disability charity, Mencap. Launched in January 2022, the partnership aims to find media opportunities and build confidence for those with a learning disability. They took the partnership to the next level and offered a six- I truly feel that my time at ITV Cymru Wales has week secondment to Sara Pickard, who has Down helped ITV staff see me as Sara, and not just my syndrome and works for Mencap Cymru as an learning disability. Hopefully, this will lead to more engagement officer. Sara fronted her own news package, co-presented political programme Sharp fantastic opportunities for people like me to work in End, danced with Ed Balls, and helped the team to the media both behind and in front of the camera.” understand what kinds of support a colleague with ITV Cymru Wales and Mencap Sara Pickard, Engagement Officer, Mencap Cymru a learning disability might need. ITV Social Purpose Impact Report 2023 43
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