Embedding Social Mobility: A Blueprint for Workplace Equity

Managing Director at The Ladder Group Leah Jones leads an interactive and practical session on how employers can build social mobility into their core

Start the year by putting social mobility at the heart of your people strategy, moving beyond statements of intent to practical, long-term change.

Hosted by The Ladder Group, this event will explore how organisations can better attract, support and progress talent from low-income backgrounds. Drawing on real examples from employers across sectors, Leah Jones will unpack the structural barriers that hold back talent and share practical actions organisations can take. From outreach and hiring, to progression, culture, leadership accountability and community partnerships.

Leah will share insights from The Ladder Group’s work with employers and young people, spotlighting what’s working, where organisations are still getting stuck, and how cross-sector collaboration can accelerate progress on social mobility.

Join us for a solutions-focused conversation for leaders in people, purpose, DEI and impact roles who are serious about driving equity through action, not just optics.

Event Schedule:

6:00pm: Pre-event socialising and networking
A cash bar will be available for refreshments.

6:15pm: Event begins

7:30pm: Event ends

Speakers:

Leah Jones is a leading voice on social mobility and inclusion in the workplace. With over a decade of experience across the private and public sector – she advises FTSE 100s and purpose-led organisations on how to move beyond diversity ‘goals’ and create long-term, structural change.

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Please note that this event will be recorded and photographed. By attending this event, you consent to being photographed, filmed and recorded (“Recordings”). You further consent to The Conduit, and its assigns’ use of your name and your appearance and voice as captured by these Recordings, in any and all media, worldwide, for any purpose in connection with this event, including promotion of this event.

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