Robyn leads ‘Drive’, Man Group’s global DE&I network, and chairs its Steering Committee, overseeing Man Group’s DE&I activity globally. She is the senior executive sponsor of Man Group’s BEAM (Black employees and allies) and PRIDE (LGBT+) employee networks and has been driving “Paving the Way,” the firm’s campaign to diversify the “pipeline” and encourage a broader range of talent, especially women, to enter the company and industry. Alongside the CEO, Robyn led Man Group’s signing of the Women in Finance Charter and has been working to meet the targets set by this. Man Group now has 56% women representation on its board. She spearheaded the inclusion of gender pronouns across WorkDay, Slack and emails and has been leading HR and Talent in Diversity-focused recruitment, graduate engagement policies, and initiatives. Furthermore, she championed a Women Returners program, which helps highly-skilled women return to the workforce following a career break, and also worked on expanding the firm’s mentoring program to include peer mentoring through the “Power of 10” program, which is led by Robyn and other women from the Executive Committee.
