Gender demographics

At Brooks, we are focusing on growing women leadership in our workplace through hiring practices and our leadership and career development programmes. We aim to create a healthy pipeline of gender-balanced talent to help lead Brooks.

Racial demographics

As a global company, we recognise the uniqueness of racial diversity in the European context. We strive to ensure that our European workforce reflects the diversity of the European population. We collect and analyse data on the racial diversity of our workforce at each level of our organisation as we work towards achieving racial equity among historically underrepresented groups.

Corporate Equality Index

We’ve made big strides in our commitment to equality and in evolving our organisation’s policies and practices to be equitable and inclusive. Our efforts in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have been recognised by the national Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI). Our annual participation in the CEI — the nation’s premier benchmarking survey and report measuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) policies and practices in the workplace — is a way to keep ourselves accountable to our DEI goals and to track how we’re doing. The CEI score is determined by three main criteria: workforce protections, inclusive benefits and supporting an inclusive culture and corporate social responsibility.

Pay equity

Brooks began incorporating pay equity analysis into our hiring, promotion and compensation processes in 2018. During offers and our annual compensation reviews, we analyse pay equity across employees in similar roles within our organisation.

Inclusive culture

Brooks is committed to maintaining a workplace culture where everyone feels a sense of belonging and each person’s uniqueness is valued. We contribute to this through our various employee programmes, including Mentorship, Leader-Led Training, Connect Manager Training, Unconscious Bias Training, New Employee Orientation, Brooks Buddy, the DEI Speaker Series, Book Club, Employee Awards, and Employee Resource Groups. On an annual basis, Brooks conducts an employee Cultural Strengths Survey to assess our culture. One area of focus within the assessment is “inclusive environment”, which is rated on a 5-point scale. We also do an overall review of our organisation’s annual inclusion scores by demographic cohort to ensure there are no significant disparities between dominant and historically underrepresented groups.

Community partnerships

Running has the power to build community and effect positive change. Brooks helps to strengthen our community partners through sponsorships, financial support and gear donations, so together we can champion the run for all.