Careers
Reaching gender balance across the organization
Our global workforce is gender-balanced. Our ambition is to be gender-balanced in all professional families where women are under-represented (IT or sales) and among our top senior executives by 2023. Several programs and policies were developed to offer equal opportunities for women and men.
- SUPPORTING WOMEN’S CAREER DEVELOPEMENT
- THE POWER OF NETWORKS
- REACHING GENDER PARITY
- TRACKING WOMEN’S REPRESENTATION
- EXTERNAL COMMITMENTS AND RECOGNITION
Supporting women’s career developement
The AXA Sponsorship Tandem is our development program for women and men. With this initiative, we identify the most talented women and men within each team across the world and prepare them for senior management roles with the sponsorship of the local Executive Committee. The program offers a mix of mentoring and sponsoring, providing the exposure needed to grow within the organization. To reach our gender diversity target, this program involves a larger representation of women. At Group level, the same program is offered yearly to talented women who are paired during one year with a Group Partners member. This initiative was recognized as a Best Practice by the leading global organization Catalyst. Additionally, we have a focused approach to develop our high potential senior women for Global Executive positions.
In 2017, the Group launched the Global Executive Development Program, targeting two third of executive women as participants. This program is designated to accelerate the development of the next generations of executives.
The power of networks
WoMen@AXA is our global internal Employee Resource Group for the Women and the Men of AXA with an objective of fostering the professional development of women. The network serves as a platform for discussing gender balance issues as well as developing ideas to help women, but eventually everyone, in their professional development. Run in English, it gathers more than 2,500 members across the globe and has several local chapters which offer physical events and information sharing in other languages.
From 2013 to 2016, we brought each year over 100 talented women and men across AXA for a Women’s Conference, at our headquarters in Paris, giving them opportunities:
- to network;
- to share experiences as well as focus on strategic discussions on inclusion both from an employee and customer perspective.
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