Opinion: Sinje Wojahn

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Sustainable inclusion People power

Sinje Wojahn, head of global HR management & people development at LSG Group, explains why people are at the heart of the sustainability debate

The past years have intensified the focus on sustainability in the aviation industry, and that is an encouraging development. For me, and the LSG Group, the 'people' aspect is an integral component to our approach to sustainability, we have our focus on 'People, Planet and Prosperity.' Naturally, some ask: “How sustainable can the aviation industry really be?” And while this is of course a valid concern, we believe we must all see this goal as a challenge. The LSG Group, like many of our customers, continues to review areas where we can make changes – both big and small – that will have a positive impact on our planet and those living on it. It is a challenge we all want to tackle, and so it is important to ensure we have people within our team who want to share that challenge and make sustainability a reality in our sector.

Growing together

For me, this includes fostering the growth of all our existing employees and removing barriers to ensure equal development opportunities for all. It is certainly important to attract new talent, but enabling personal growth ensures we retain talent too. Retention actually comes naturally with an inclusive and growth-oriented culture which is why over the past

year, our Sustainability & Diversity Inclusion team has renewed its focus on five key dimensions of diversity: age, race, ethnicity, gender, physical ability Staff retention comes and sexual orientation. naturally with an inclusive and growthoriented culture Efforts are underway to bring that culture alive within our organisation. Among initiatives, we organised a week’s worth of activities for International Women’s Day, beginning with a panel discussion on the theme: Break the growth of all our existing the Bias. External experts shared success employees and removing stories and learnings on the topic, and barriers to ensure equal internal experts showcased both global and development opportunities local perspectives. for all. It is certainly We also launched #IamRemarkable, an important to attract initiative powered by Google. Through this new talent, but format, we hope a diversity of employees enabling personal will be empowered to speak up and growth ensures we promote themselves in ways authentic to retain talent too. them. Combined with our global diversity Retention actually policy, these efforts deepen the discussion comes naturally and identify local initiatives that suit all with an inclusive and regions. As we all navigate the difficulties growth-oriented culture of the past two years, this is a challenge we which is why over the past happily accept.•