Our Advancing LGBTQ+ Network has helped drive inclusion throughout Mott MacDonald with our proactive approach, passion and commitment.
Our action plan fully aligns with our Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) strategy. Our vision is that diversity and inclusion is celebrated and people are supported to flourish and live healthy and fulfilling lives. Our aims and achievements are summarised here.

• Engaging with colleagues on LGBTQ+ inclusion, supporting allyship
In 2023, we worked with leadership colleagues worldwide to produce a video series to reaffirm our commitment to LGBTQ+ inclusion as a business, a community, and individuals. Our global leaders shared their personal stories and experiences and gave suggestions and ideas on how to be a better ally. We encouraged colleagues to share the videos with their teams, colleagues, and new starters to equip people with the tools and knowledge to be inclusive of LGBTQ+ colleagues. Our aspiration is that people feel safe, included, and able to be themselves in their workplace. By driving this at a leadership level, we use our collective power to demonstrate our visible support and make this a reality.
We celebrate every LGBTQ+ calendar event through engaging and educational posts on Viva Engage, ensuring visibility and awareness. During Pride Month, our efforts are amplified by sharing daily posts highlighting various aspects of the LGBTQ+ community and our commitment to supporting them. We also helped the marketing team write a series of posts for LinkedIn.

• Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ colleagues
We work closely with our Wellbeing team to provide robust support to our LGBTQ+ members, ensuring their mental and emotional wellbeing. For World Mental Health Day last year, we hosted a webinar with Dr Brendan Dunlop, author of the Queer Mental Health Workbook, for a conversation exploring his work, LGBTQ+ mental health, and tips for better wellbeing.
Leading LGBTQ+ inclusion projects requires bravery, resilience, critical thinking, and good planning to ensure community members remain safe and supported. One initiative has involved offering rainbow lanyards and pronoun badges to staff. With the upturn in social media debate and hate crimes directed towards trans and non-binary people, we wanted this campaign to explicitly reflect support for this community. With Corporate Social Responsibility in mind, we sourced lanyards from The Proud Trust, an LGBTQ+ youth charity. These feature the trans pride flag and the rainbow flag with a black and brown stripe representing LGBTQ+ people of colour. To date, we have distributed almost 3,000 lanyards to colleagues in the UK, Europe, America, Canada, India, and Australia. Our lanyards and pronoun badges promote visibility and inclusivity within our diverse network.

• Working to embed LGBTQ+ inclusion in our policies and workplace culture
We have reviewed and helped shape key policies and processes. We have supported the development of a range of resources for colleagues, such as Inclusive language guides, a trans-inclusion allyship guide, and a range of EDI moments and dilemmas that are used in team meetings and people manager training.
We bring the values of equal opportunities, diverse teams, and inclusive culture into our day-to-day roles. Whether challenging discrimination, changing perceptions, developing industry-wide LGBTQ+ inclusion resources, advocating for colleagues, or creating wellbeing initiatives, our work demonstrates that diversity and inclusion brings tangible business benefits.
Our work has and will continue to significantly impact the personal and professional development of countless colleagues.

• Collaboration with external parties to support industry-wide LGBTQ+ inclusion.
Inter-organisational collaboration is key to building an inclusive construction and engineering industry. Using our insight, experience, and skillset, we work with Building Equality and InterEngineering to drive inclusion across the wider industry. Over the last five years, we have worked with colleagues from 60+ organisations to create educational resources, including an LGBTQ+ allies toolbox talk and a trans allyship toolbox talk, a poster campaign to challenge perceptions, and knowledge-sharing webinars – prompting people to learn through engagement. We attend Pride marches around the UK with our rainbow JCB to demonstrate the inclusion journey in our industry and encourage people to consider a career in construction. We also hold social networking events, including film nights, quiz nights, and comedy showcases, all aimed at fostering a sense of community and inclusivity and raising funds for LGBTQ+ charities such as Sparkle, Mermaids, Trans in the City, and the Proud Trust.
In 2024, Mott MacDonald joined MyGWork after consulting with the Advancing LGBTQ+ Network; the largest global business community of LGBTQ+ professionals and graduates that enables them to connect with inclusive employers.