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Employees discussed topics such as the expectations made of a woman to shoulder household responsibilities, imposter syndrome experienced by women and how the COVID-lockdown highlighted inequitable distribution of work, specifically around the home.
Women in the Workplace,” covering topics such as equality of opportunity, flexibility, visibility, networking, a culture of belonging and the twoway benefits of sponsorship.
To support minority-owned businesses during UK Black History Month in October, our RISE Network partnered with a UK-based Black-owned bookshop to offer subsidized book tokens for employees to spend at the bookshop.
Across the U.S. and Canada, professionals raised more than $ to support organizations working to end discrimination and protect the guaranteed civil rights of the AAPI community.
Australia’s colonization has, and continues to have, a devastating influence on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, marked by land dispossession, violence, racism and overall inequality.
Reconciliation is the practice of building stronger relationships between all Australians and healing the wounds of the past for a better future together.
The independent nonprofit organization Reconciliation Australia (“RA”) has been the leading body for reconciliation in Australia since 2001.
In Plans (“RAP”) as a framework for organizations to support reconciliation by leveraging their resources and influence.
OUR ROLE Throughout Citizenship and DI&B committee members, came together to plan and outline our inaugural RAP.
RA has created four different RAP styles — Reflect, Innovate, Stretch and Elevate — which allows companies to go on a reconciliation journey and strengthen their commitments.
In our inaugural year, FTI Consulting’s RAP is centered around “reflection” and encourages our employees to educate themselves on reconciliation.
FTI Consulting Australia joined a network of more than government and nonprofit organizations that have made a formal, public commitment to reconciliation.
As part of our RAP, FTI Consulting has committed to several actions for the next (“RWG”) consisting of professionals across segments and levels in Australia to implement the RAP and drive these actions with the responsible stakeholders.
OUR IMPACT Since the RAP was released, FTI Consulting established a practice for Acknowledgement of Country — or an opportunity to acknowledge and pay respect to the First Nations Peoples, the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders, as the original landowners — during internal and external events.
In line with our RAP deliverables, we announced our new national charity partner for Australia, Yalari, a nonprofit organization that provides Indigenous children from rural and remote communities across Australia with the opportunity to receive quality education through full boarding scholarships.
We believe that access to quality education is of the utmost importance to further reconciliation.
Our commitment to this partnership includes financial support, volunteering opportunities, promotion of Yalari to our staff, partners and clients, and opportunities for Yalari Pathways Scholarship Program alumni to gain paid work experience through FTI Consulting internships.
At FTI Consulting, our impact extends far beyond the work we do for our clients.
Through pro bono engagements, employee charitable gift matching and company-sponsored volunteering, we aim to support the communities in which we work, to build innovative and mutually beneficial partnerships with charitable organizations, and to help the world more broadly.
Maximizing long-term value for our shareholders — Making a positive impact in our communities — Leveraging our unique skill sets to support a more diverse and inclusive society — Minimizing our negative impact on the environment Each day, our experts make a meaningful impact by applying their definitive expertise, tena...
This same strategy translates to our firm’s Corporate Citizenship Program, which is focused on our people and our communities.
The primary purpose of FTI Consulting’s Corporate Citizenship Program is to enable, inspire and empower colleagues to use their skills to solve problems and build resilience in our global and local communities.
FTI Consulting has coordinated programs such as firm-sponsored pro bono engagements, volunteering opportunities and employee matching available for employees to engage with causes that matter most to them.
In participated in our Corporate Citizenship Program, supporting more than 1,200 charitable organizations.
across the three components of FTI Consulting’s Corporate Citizenship Program — volunteering, matching employee donations and pro bono engagement.
INTRODUCTION | ENVIRONMENT | SOCIAL | GOVERNANCE | APPENDIX “As a member of the Pro Bono Advisory Committee, it was exciting to see the surge of interest in more broadly.
“FTI Consulting has talented professionals with specialized skill sets, and I think it’s unique that as a company, we can provide substantial support to organizations and clients who can benefit from our expertise.
Pro Bono Engagements As both professionals and a firm, we have the opportunity to give back and make an impact in the communities where we live and work.
Pro bono work at FTI Consulting leverages our professionals’ deep knowledge and unique expertise to make a difference for individuals and organizations.
Our professionals have donated more than $million in pro bono services since 2016 to support a wide variety of global charitable and communitybased organizations.
We believe a company -sponsored and -supported pro bono engagement program provides employees with the opportunity to apply their professional skills to meaningful challenges at work.
The purpose-driven engagements distill a deeper connection and sense of purpose to their work.
This has led us to deepen our investment to enhance the global pro bono program.
In January formation of its Pro Bono Advisory Committee that includes more than 20 diverse representatives from different segments, regions and levels across the firm.
The committee meets several times per year to evaluate new opportunities, discuss the progress of ongoing engagements, and introduce enhancements to the firm’s procedures and policies for pro bono engagements.
In its evaluation of new engagements, the committee considers our experts’ unique skill sets, causes that directly advance equity and justice in underrepresented communities, and relation to advancing our firm’s goals.
The committee works closely with our General Counsel and business segment leaders so that pro bono engagements are properly staffed to assure work is distributed evenly across the firm.
These three criteria promote a diverse set of opportunities for our employees to leverage their professional skill sets and lead critical assignments that support important work in our communities.
Another step we took in participation and scale our pro bono efforts was the introduction of a policy allotting all FTI Consulting employees up to 35 hours of work performed for pro bono engagements that count toward their segment’s utilization and productivity metrics.
This change in policy contributed to a twofold growth in FTI Consulting’s pro bono services.
The firm provided more than $than double compared with 2020 ($2.1 million).
INTRODUCTION | ENVIRONMENT | SOCIAL | GOVERNANCE | APPENDIX The update to our policy also resulted in an expansion of topics served, which allows us to represent more causes that are important to our employees.
Our professionals participated in a variety of engagements that support some of society’s most pressing issues.
Throughout this report, we have highlighted some of the most prominent projects our professionals have engaged in throughout 2021.
FTI Consulting colleagues to engage in pro bono work.
Parts of South Africa are experiencing alarming rates of gender-based violence.
In the Johannesburg township Diepsloot, revealed that 56% of men surveyed admitted to committing acts of physical or sexual violence, but only 9% of these abuse cases end in conviction1.
Lawyers Against Abuse (“LvA”), a local nonprofit organization, works to provide legal and psychological aid to these victims.
FTI Consulting professionals in South Africa began working with LvA on a pro bono basis to develop various training modules on soft skills to support victims of abuse, who are often financially dependent on their abusers.
OUR ROLE Led by female professionals across FTI Consulting’s Strategic Communications and Forensic and Litigation Consulting segments, the modules were aimed at empowering women to secure employment or start their own business.
A range of workshops throughout addressed critical topics like CV writing, interviewing, workplace rights, financial management and small business development, with the goal of helping women gain financial independence.
OUR IMPACT To date, FTI Consulting professionals contributed to more than digital advertising support.
The training sessions have helped a participant start her own business, while another participant was able to take a workplace dispute to labor court.
Through the digital advertising support, LvA’s website has achieved approximately 31,600 impressions and 1,300 clicks.
As FTI Consulting’s relationship with LvA continued, Strategic Communications professionals identified new opportunities to support the organization in furthering their mission through pro bono engagement.
Through the expertise of our Strategic Communications segment, FTI Consulting helped LvA obtain a critical digital advertising grant to increase visibility online to potential funders and women in need.
The grant provides LvA with $month, as well as trainings on other operational digital tools.
INTRODUCTION | ENVIRONMENT | SOCIAL | GOVERNANCE | APPENDIX Employee Matching Gift Program FTI Consulting’s Matching Gift Program amplifies the impact of our employees’ personal charitable contributions.
The company matches employee donations to eligible nonprofit organizations dollar for dollar up to $500 per employee, or local currency equivalent, each calendar year.
Nonprofit organizations are assessed and selected in part by their alignment with our values and corporate sustainability strategy.
Through our global Corporate Citizenship portal, employees can discover causes, submit their donation information, request a corporate match, nominate new charities for match-eligibility and participate in peer-to-peer fundraising.
This flexible approach allows employees to participate in the program while amplifying the causes personally important to them.
In 2021, COVID-19 continued to impact communities across the globe.
Our employees donated time and resources to support those hit hardest by the pandemic, notably in India.
During India’s devastating second wave of COVID-than 300,000 new infections1 a day as cities faced severe medical supply and oxygen shortages for critically ill patients.
In response to this crisis, FTI Consulting professionals across the globe banded together to donate to GiveIndia, India’s largest and most trusted donation platform.
In total, FTI Consulting colleagues raised over $matching gift program.
INTRODUCTION | ENVIRONMENT | SOCIAL | GOVERNANCE | APPENDIX Volunteering FTI Consulting empowers and encourages our employees to make a positive impact on communities by getting involved in causes that are important to them.
We provide our employees with eight hours of company-sponsored volunteer time, where employees can take the day to contribute their time and efforts to a local charity or cause.
In people volunteered over 5,400 hours collectively, a 35% increase from 2020.
FTI Consulting by giving back in meaningful ways.
These included cultivating annual events and partnerships virtually and participating in skills-based volunteering, among others.
Click on the map to see highlighted efforts.
Many of our global offices have Corporate Citizenship Champions, who are responsible for enhancing leadership efforts and driving engagement in our Corporate Citizenship initiatives at the local level.
The efforts and energy of our Champions are key contributors to the growth of our program.
In global Corporate Citizenship Champions grew to over 130 employees.
Strategic Charitable Partnerships Some FTI Consulting offices have established partnerships with local nonprofits.
These offices allocate their volunteer and fundraising efforts to these partners.
Partnerships are often evaluated by suitability and alignment to FTI Consulting’s company strategy by a designated selection team within the office.
These partnerships are then voted on by office colleagues.
Selected partnerships become the beneficiary of that office’s volunteerism and fundraising efforts.
THE TALENT TAP “Supporting diversity can often mean exploring hard truths and going beyond barriers and comfort, and the social mobility cold spots in the UK cannot be underestimated.
The Talent Tap’s ethos and message are things that resonate deeply with me.
In strategic partnership with The Talent Tap, a social mobility charity that supports the employment prospects of young people from communities characterized by persistent and multigenerational disadvantage, economic underinvestment and network poverty in the UK.
OUR ROLE Our London office set a target to raise GBP£organization.
Throughout the year, professionals across segments and levels organized unique and innovative ways to reach this goal.
More than support The Talent Tap in 2021, conducting 170 mock interviews with students and over 200 hours of mentoring.
Mentoring hours included the facilitation of a two-week work experience program at FTI Consulting with networking events and workshops.
The #London, South Africa, Spain and the U.S., who devoted a collective 680 hours and logged over 7,000 kilometers through running, cycling, walking, hiking or swimming.
The Talent Tap has captured the hearts of FTI Consulting colleagues.
tournament and an online baking class, among others.
London-based colleagues also went head to head with other consultancies in the annual music charity event “Expertise Rocks,” where a band formed of experts in their various fields compete to raise funds for the charity of their choice.
Further building on the firm’s commitment to promoting well-being, FTI Consulting colleagues took their efforts outdoors in various events supporting The Talent Tap, including running the virtual Royal Parks Half Marathon in London and organizing the inaugural #representing the 820 miles of distance between all of The ...
The initiative included a variety of fitness challenges but also developed creative ways to be inclusive for our colleagues through an “as knitting an 8.2-meter scarf and growing 82 plants to give to friends.
INTRODUCTION | ENVIRONMENT | SOCIAL | GOVERNANCE | APPENDIX Our Corporate Citizenship Journey Professionals at FTI Consulting have showcased an interest in supporting the community more broadly even before a formal Corporate Citizenship Program was founded.
After the firm put dedicated time and resources into community impact, the company’s journey has grown our impact through several different avenues.
The FTI Consulting brand is forged by our commitment to excellence, our professional conduct and ethics, our protection of privacy and information, and our professionalism that we bring to our projects and engagements.
We regularly strive for improvement in these areas, helping to protect not only the interests of our clients but also those of our employees, vendors, communities and shareholders.
Our strong corporate governance principles reinforce our efforts to protect the interests of our company and our stakeholders.
Our Corporate Governance Guidelines steer our Board of Directors, which provides oversight and supports our company’s continued efforts to operate sustainably and generate long-term value for our stakeholders.