EY provides an example of how to implement professional networks, often known as employee resource groups, within an organization. EY professional networks are organizations formed around a shared set of interests, experiences or perspectives. Professional networks support diversity, in part by serving as an important recruiting tool. But they also make EY inclusive. While networks support firm diversity and inclusiveness goals, they also help members individually to learn about differences as well as each other and on the basis of shared interest in those differences.
Although EY is a large, global organization, this resource can be valuable to any organization considering launching employee resource groups.