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The Token Man: WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell talks to The Drum's Diane Young about the chances of his successor being a woman

on Nov 16, 2015 | 0 comments

By Staff Writer

The below is a light edit of the conversation between Sir Martin Sorrell and Diane Young. For their entire conversation, see the video above.

Diane Young: You’ve got a well-developed diversity programme at WPP…

Sir Martin Sorrell: Probably not well-developed enough. I mean it’s a diversity programme but it hasn’t achieved the metrics, for want of a better word, that we’d like to achieve – namely 50/50 [gender split] or I think technically it might be in favour of women, more than 50/50, but across the whole company.

Overall we’re sort of 50/50. At lower levels and middle levels we hold that 50/50 Read full story ›

Source: The Drum