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Mexican board diversity drive revealed
30% Mexico and Mercer México reveal the boardroom dynamics playing out across the country – and what they mean for senior women.
About 30% Club Mexico
Mexico Chapter launched in Dec’20 to achieve at least 15% representation of WOMEN on all boards and C-Suites by 2025 and at least 30% by 2030.
The campaign seeks to encourage organizations to treat diversity like any other business objective and asks members to commit to:
- Measure their baseline.
- Set an 30% aspirational target at board level.
- Drive progress towards that target.
To support the achievement of a minimum of 30% Gender Balance at all senior decision-making tables across Mexico, including Boards and C-Suite.
Activate
Activate senior leaders
Engage chairs and CEOs to drive change and support organizations in their diversity & inclusion endeavours, with a specific focus on gender.
Influence
Influence those with power to drive change
Influence at a national level on diversity related topics and working complementary to other national initiatives including Balance for Better Business, the State Boards Diversity Initiative.
Enable
Enabling future women leaders
Support the development of talent pipeline through mentoring, executive education scholarships and board-ready initiatives.
The 30% Club is a global effort to place women in leadership positions and on boards from a business perspective. Men and women think different, and thus the reason why diversity plays an important role in companies to improve results, generate sustainable businesses and thus to create a virtuous growth cycle.
Chapter progress
We recognize that there is a huge amount of work to do in our country. Here’s the women on board data from Centro de Investigación de la Mujer en la Alta Dirección (CIMAD) from IPADE
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
6.5%
8.7%
9.2%
11.4%
13%
13%
Steering Committee
Marlene Garayzar Gómez
Co-founder
Stori
Kelly Lee Kroger
Commercial VP, Old Navy & Victoria’s Secret Mexico
Grupo Axo
Alejandra Enríquez Martínez
Surman
CFO
Pilar Brogeras
Managing Director
Stanton Chase
Edurne Balmori
Executive Director
The Trevor Project
Ana Felisa López
Executive Director of Human Resources
Santander
Mari Nieves Lanzagorta
Vice President of Engagement
AMAFORE
Beatriz Tumoine
Global Director of Impact
CEMEX/ Pacto Mundial
Arturo Saval
Chairman
Nexxus Capital
Odracir Barquera
General Director of Planning Council
Consejo Coordinador Empresarial
Victor Esquivel
Senior Partner
KPMG
Pablo Casaux
Latam Head of Market Structure Strategy
Bloomberg
Silvia Davila
Regional President Danone EDP LATAM
Danone
Michelle Ferrari
President CEO
Women Economic Forum (WEF) Great Culture to Innovate
Rodrigo Gómez Alarcón
Managing Partner
Capital Indigo
Laura Cruz
Deputy General Director of Strategy, Innovation, and Customer Experience.
Santander
Claudia Corona Vadillo
Founder / CEO
Impronta Verde
Rogerio Machado
Executive Director of Personnel
Compass NA
Sergio Méndez
Country Head
Blackrock Mexico
Mariuz Calvet
Chief Sustainability Officer
Santander
Felipe García Moreno Rodríguez
Mexico Senior Country Officer
JP Morgan
Manuel Romo
CEO
Citibanamex
Advisory Board
José Octavio Reyes Lagunes
Global Board Member Mastercard / Chair 30% Club Mexico
Mastercard / 30% Club Mexico
Mónica Flores
Managing Director Latin America
Manpower
Mauricio Reynoso
CEO
AMEDIRH
Gina Diez Barroso
President / CEO
Diarq, Dalia Empower
Maria Ariza
CEO
BIVA
Our Work
Available to CEOs, Chairs of companies or associations with a minimum headcount of 300 employees or with a wide spectrum of influence that can generate strategic alliances with national, international or governmental organizations to increase scalability and efficiencies.
We ask our members to champion the Campaign’s mission, help further its positioning and increase its influence and visibility within the media and wider business community. There is no initial cost for the memberships, but further contributions shall be required to cover certain expenses and events as agreed in advance with our members.
Benefits for joining the club
- INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM where diverse teams, universities, members, organizations collaborate in six continents and building up lessons learned.
- It gives a VISIBILITY under a standardized goal to achieve a minimum of 30% gender parity in different positions.
- Access to global FORUMS for understanding different points of view and forging relationships. (ie: Women’s Forum, UN Global Compact, UN Women)
- Offers a strong NETWORK of highly talented professionals across different backgrounds, cultures, positions.
- Provides LEARNING PROGRAMS to establish cross functional mentoring and sponsorship schemes
- Offers ONLINE PLATFORMS for publishing best practices and updated information to promote diversity
Contact
For more information or to add your story to our case studies get in touch with us.
Contactmx@30percentclublatam.org
The Investor group brings together asset owners and asset managers, committed to the 30% Club goals for women participation in Boards and Senior Management.
The purpose of the Investor Group is to: (1) help coordinate the investment community’s approach to gender diversity with investees; (2) explain the investment case for more diverse boards and a floor of 30% women Board Representation; (3) encourage all investors to engage on the issue of board diversity with chairs and management teams; (3) to consider women when nominating independent supervisory board members (nonexecutive directors) (4) exercise our ownership rights, including voting and engagement, to effect change on company boards and within senior management teams.
Metrics
The 30% Club remains committed to using data to help drive change. The Bloomberg Gender Equality Reporting Framework and Gender Equality Index (GEI) allows corporations to track their progress towards equality in the workplace in order to manage effective change. Through public disclosure and comprehensive, transparent scoring, the companies reporting with the GEI have shown their commitment to progress.
Benefits for investors:
- Identify public companies that are committed to transparent reporting and addressing gender inequality.
- Communicate actively and efficiently best corporate governance practices among investee companies.
- Have access to D&I data from investee companies useful for investment decisions.
- Gain visibility to customers, employees and other stakeholders of your support to ESG in general and Gender in particular.
Contact
For more information get in touch with Pablo Casaux
The purpose of the group is to share and develop the best practices that can be implemented across a range of firms and industries to develop gender balance in leadership by developing a toolkit adapted to Mexico.
It works around three pillars Corporate, Professional and Personal to enable members develop the skills required to foster confidence and competences. Institutions that participate with our chapter include: Mercer, CIMAD (IPADE), Mujeres en Finanzas, Ezentia, Grupo Expansión, Dalia Empower, EGADE.
- EGADE offers two annual scholarships (50%) for their part time MBA program. Across the global network of the 30% Club there is a wide list of universities that offer these types of scholarships
- Dalia Empower provides tactical courses on negotiation, professional network, personal branding, master classes on demand where discounts apply for our members.
- The Boardlist enables with its platform to place our female candidates in US Boards that can be from a start up to a listed company. This alliance provides visibility to our talented pool of female candidates and strengthens our members’s through their endorsement.
- CIMAD (IPADE) has also a directory of women ready for boards to help them increase visibility and thus eligibility.
Contact
For more information get in touch with Sandine Dupriez