About us
Diversity, equity and inclusion
Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the heart of everything we do for our colleagues, clients and the wider community.
To achieve long-term and sustainable success, it's crucial that we reflect and embrace the diversity that surrounds us.
Our mission is to create a culture that fosters a sense of belonging and empowers everyone to reach their full potential. Everyone deserves equal opportunities to thrive, and we're committed to attracting, retaining, and developing people of all dimensions of difference.
Our pillars
Our pillars are the areas of focus from which our DE&I strategic priorities flow. Each pillar has an action plan with measurable objectives to hold ourselves accountable. It's crucial we provide a diverse, inclusive and equitable enviromnment for all who work at Knight Frank, and the intersectionality between these pillars is essential to make the biggest difference.
Gender
We respect the perspectives of individuals across gender and its intersectional layers.
Ability
We value all employees and their unique skills, regardless of physical or mental health challenges.
Race and ethnicity
We acknowledge the diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds of individuals within our company.
Social mobility
We recognise the variety of economic backgrounds and experiences within an organisation.
Generation
We include employees from all age groups to learn from each other and foster innovation.
LGBTQ+
We celebrate the diversity of sexual orientations and gender identities in the workplace.
Our priorities
Attract and hire talent from the vast range of diversity we have across society at every level.
Our action points:
- Work on establishing gender and ethnicity ambitions to enable a laser focus on a strategic progression pipeline at equity and partner level.
- Build a diverse pipeline and succession plan at every stage through talent identification and early career activation.
- Complete an inclusive recruitment audit to identify potential bias and barriers throughout the candidate lifecycle.
Drive inclusive cultures and behaviours to retain and develop talent to reach their full potential.
Our action points:
- Embed inclusive policies, processes and guidelines that enable accountability and equity across our colleague lifecycle.
- Foster a culture of learning through targeted intervention at all levels.
- Empower our colleagues via our employee resource groups to create a sense of belonging while contributing to our business objectives.
- Adopt and understand the power of inclusion, belonging and psychological safety to embrace the value to diversity.
- Launch toolkits and collateral to support DE&I learning and development.
Empower leaders to be accountable for DE&I through conscious inclusion and inclusive leadership.
Our action points:
- Create a clear structure and metrics through our career framework to drive leadership accountability.
- Use data-led insights to empower leaders to drive diverse gender and ethnicity pipelines to achieve our DE&I ambitions.
- Increase the DE&I capabilities and confidence of our leaders through training and development.
- Embed a DE&I governance structure that leverages senior leadership sponsorship and advocacy to drive progress.
Use data-led activation to continuously understand internal and external insights.
Our action points:
- Use DE&I data underpinned by quality analytics to inform our priorities, action and targeted interventions.
- Leverage DE&I external benchmarks and data to gain best-in-class oversight.
- Continue to cultivate a culture of trust and transparency to maintain reliable data both locally and globally.
- Establish a data-led approach to commercial value for DE&I and social impact.
- Grow our data monitoring and reporting capabilities to include employee experience, pay gap reporting, retention, and progression across all DE&I pillars.
Establish strategic partnerships to deepen our knowledge and external visibility.
Our action points:
- Cultivate partnerships to expand our brand among underrepresented communities to access top diverse talent.
- Use partnerships as external insight to gain understanding of best practices.
- Select a diverse range of awards and recognition platforms to position ourselves as an employee choice.
- Use our brand value to be change agents who amplify impact across the industry.
Our strategic partners and sponsorships
Hidden Disabilities Sunflower
Membership of the global Hidden Disabilities Sunflower network, to support employees with hidden disabilities across its UK business.
Making the Leap
Making the Leap is a London-based social mobility organisation whose mission is to transform the futures of disadvantaged young people in the UK. They do this by providing training to raise aspirations and develop skills, confidence, and outlook to choose and succeed in a career.
Property Week
Property Week is a UK magazine that reports on the worldwide commercial and residential real estate market. Knight Frank has partnered with Property Week to help us achieve our ambitions for gender diversity and equity.
Real Estate Balance Group
Real Estate Balance is a membership body for organisations who recognise the value of diversity in the real estate industry by working with leaders and senior leadership teams to support them in driving cultural change within their businesses.
Women in Data
Women in Data® plays a key role in driving for more accurate representation wherever data is being gathered and analysed. They provide the platform that allows professionals at all levels to share their knowledge and experience, while working alongside businesses to help them embrace and develop the enormous advantages generated by diversity.
Regeneration Brainery
Regeneration Brainery is an award-winning aspirational academy for brilliant young minds. Set up in 2017, the non-profit works with over 4,000 young people across the UK every year, giving diverse young people opportunities to kickstart a career that suits their skills and aspirations.
Black Women in Real Estate
BWRE is a community for Black Women in the industry to connect, empower, grow and learn. They seek to eradicate isolation by providing a safe space and an outward facing platform for those who identity as black, mixed heritage or non-binary woman in the Real Estate industry within the UK, EMEA and the USA.
As part of our partnership with Property Week, we're proud to support them by sponsoring the Inspiring Women in Property Awards.
