Wiersholm

At Wiersholm, we continually strive to create a diverse workplace that reflects the diversity of the world we serve.

As our clients develop and face new challenges, we believe that the breadth of knowledge, diverse backgrounds and unique experience each employee brings to the firm allows us to deliver better service to our clients and creates a stronger organisational culture. Consequently, we work hard to recruit, advance, retain and promote people from minority backgrounds.

We encourage our colleagues to bring their diverse selves to the workplace and acknowledge the importance of creating an inclusive workplace environment. During Pride month, we celebrate the LGBTQIA community by showing our support through visibility at work. Our employee experience survey shows that our employees feel they can be themselves at work, which is vital in order to foster a diverse workplace culture. Our employees also consider workplace diversity to be an asset.

Additionally, to ensure gender equality at all levels we continually work to achieve our goal of a gender-balanced partnership, which takes time. During the last three years, women have constituted 50 per cent of our partner promotions to achieve our goal of 1/3 female partners by 2028. To retain a gender-balanced talent pool in the decision making process, we systematically work with talent development and follow-up before, during and after parental leave to ensure inclusion. In this manner, we create a workplace culture that encourages fathers as well as mothers to take parental leave, a number which has increased significantly in recent years.