Alfa wins LeasingWorld Gold Awards EDI Trailblazer

This award celebrates how our outstanding commitment to promoting and delivering EDI has made a significant difference in the workplace, and how our achievements have led to positive change.

With such an eclectic mix of talented colleagues at Alfa, all coming from different places and with unique stories, our work around inclusion and diversity ensures we embrace our differences, integrate with one another, and feel safe to express ourselves - so that we don’t experience discrimination.

Diverse cultural perspectives really do inspire innovation and creativity at Alfa. We solve problems and make things better together, and recognising others' identities makes our people feel valued.

Alfa’s Inclusion & Diversity Charter shows our commitment to promoting equal opportunities and creating an environment where everyone can feel respected and able to contribute fully.

We believe...

• We are passionate about providing an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity.
• All our employees should be able to bring their best and most true selves to work.
• ‘You should be yourself.....we like it that way!’.
• Each employee has a unique contribution to make to Alfa.

We pledge to...

• Champion inclusion, diversity and belonging across the whole company.
• Respect, celebrate and draw on each other's different perspectives, skills, knowledge and backgrounds.
• Encourage and embrace individuality.
• Educate ourselves and each other on issues around inclusion and diversity.
• Be accountable and use our corporate voice to lead positive change in our wider communities.
• Drive change by embracing difficult or uncomfortable conversations.
• Expect leaders at all levels to actively promote a culture of inclusion.
• Increase the diversity of Alfa through inclusive recruitment.
• Enforce a zero-tolerance attitude to racism, bullying and harassment.

As part of our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) strategy, we want to better understand the diverse make-up of Alfa and get an understanding of how valued our colleagues feel at work. We also want to understand what we can do to improve representation of diverse groups and know where to focus our DEI efforts. As part of this, in 2023, Alfa launched our first-ever and now annual DEI employee survey, seeking feedback from colleagues on how we’re doing and crowd-sourcing suggestions for areas to work on.

Our culture remains one of the things we are most proud of at Alfa. We foster global connections, work on communicating and knowledge-sharing wherever we can, and enjoy learning and networking at a host of social talks and events.

We call our Employee Resource Groups ‘Communities’ and we have eight of these vibrant affinity groups, which lead the way in raising awareness, educating colleagues, supporting each other and making a positive impact on life at Alfa. Alfa Communities are people-powered - full of passion and energy!

Diversity, equity and inclusion is core to Alfa’s success and we are continually developing to create an environment where everyone can feel respected, is able to contribute fully and bring their true selves to work.

Read more about Alfa’s Social Impact, Inclusion and Diversity and our Communities.