Innovate UK’s latest gender pay gap (GPG) information was published today.
We recognise that a GPG of 25.5% is not what we want to see, and it has dedicated leadership attention.
Our GPG challenge wasn’t created overnight and it won’t be fixed overnight, but we have been and will be taking determined actions to improve.
We have initiated improvements to our:
- recruitment process
- internal progression opportunities
- flexible working.
We are fully committed to developing our diverse talent and improving workplace flexibility for everyone.
Improve through actions
We intend to improve through these actions and to be open about the journey we are going on.
This is a journey for us and for many other organisations.
We are learning, improving, and committed to driving this change.
We are also open to advice, ideas and sharing our learning.
Gender pay gap data sets out the difference in average pay of all women compared to all men within the organisation, regardless of the level or type of work carried out. It is not about equal pay.
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Louisa is the Chief Operating Officer for Innovate UK, accountable for:
- operational delivery
- business systems and data
- human resources
- equality, diversity and inclusion
- customer experience
- business change.
Before this, Louisa was Chief Operating Officer for the Corsham Institute, a research and learning not-for-profit which delivered research and programmes to excite, retrain and upskill people for the digital economy.
Prior to that, Louisa was Risk and Assurance Director, followed by Transformation Programme Director at the National Trust. She acted as the catalyst for improvement in business processes, technology and the control environment.
Then she saw that through into design and implementation of new processes, electronic point of sale and an enterprise resource planning system for the commercial businesses of the Trust.
Louisa started her career at PwC, where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant and worked with multiple different businesses to improve their control environment and give assurance over:
- financial accounts
- business processes
- risk management
- internal controls
- IT systems.