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years, thus demonstrating that many of the influential individuals are actually already in-situ. But imagine the results if you could harness the collective intelligence of every Powerlistee out there? Tat is the realisation that many who run BAME networks are going through today. As professional talent pools get connected,


we can find better ways to help each other. Who’s the best person to talk to if you want to start up an event series? Or set up a mentoring circle? How do we evolve quicker and avoid the pitfalls experienced by those who went before us? We can solve business challenges, share resources to enable us to do more, and find ways to measure the success of new policies that we’ve worked so hard to put in place. And we don’t just connect with each other, but we connect senior management and executive sponsors to each other, strengthening our sponsors’ networks, and creating stronger internal advocates. Te key players connecting networks in the


UK are Race for Opportunity, Te Network Of Networks, the UK BAME Federation and the SIED Directory of Business Networks. Some have been around for years and others


are fledgling organisations, but all of them are realising the power of social technologies. As employee networks, our challenge is


to leverage our new communities to give us the confidence to go beyond simply achieving better employee engagement for our companies. It is to secure our places in the strategic thinking, communications, branding, marketing and talent management functions, to help drive a culture of innovation and agile thinking in our respective organisations. As we share our experiences in greater


depth, the cohesion made possible by our connected networks can spark new social capital for BAME professionals, giving them more career options and easier access to the most useful kind of information and assistance. Ultimately it will strengthen that feeling of surprise when we open the Powerlist in future years, and discover even more amazing achievers.


Olakunle Babarinde is Chair of the Tomson Reuters Black Employee Network and Head of Trading Technology Sales, UK & Ireland


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