Our People

Creating the best places requires the best partnerships

Diversity at Lend Lease

Lend Lease is committed to growing and sustaining a diverse and inclusive workplace. Where people can bring their ‘whole self’ to work, and where we can tap into the diverse experiences, unique value and diverse thinking of our people. Diversity of experience, diversity of thought and a collaborative environment leads to excellence in innovation. To be the leading international property and infrastructure group and achieve our vision to create the best places, we need a culture and an environment that embraces and respects difference, and where we attract, retain and enable the most talented people to perform.

Lend Lease’s global diversity strategy focuses on building a foundation of diversity awareness and capability across the company. This will position us as an industry leader on diversity and inclusion, whilst striving for best practice and prioritising gender equality and workplace flexibility. 

The Lend Lease Board of Directors reports on Lend Lease’s gender diversity performance in accordance with the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations. Lend Lease has measurable objectives for gender diversity. 

  • Two out of our ten board directors are women;
  • At a senior management level, two direct reports to the Group CEO are female; and,
  • For the year ended 30 June 2013, 32 per cent of our employees are women and 19 per cent of senior executive positions are held by women.
Employee Engagement

A priority at Lend Lease is to make the employee experience positive and productive, for individuals and the company. Lend Lease conducts a full employee survey every two years with a Pulse Survey conducted with a sample of employees every other year. The next full employee survey is due in September 2013.

During the year, a series of leadership focus groups were held with employees across the globe to better understand the results of our previous Pulse survey. It addressed the leadership opportunities at Lend Lease, what our employees would look for and value in leaders and how to capitalise on our leadership agenda. 

Reconciliation Action Plan

We are now in the second year of our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) working towards increasing the representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in professional roles across Lend Lease. During the year, we have had eleven Indigenous university interns working across the business in a range of disciplines through our partnership with Career Trackers, the private sector internship program for Indigenous university students. As our first Career Trackers intern transitioned into a permanent role as a junior development manager in Victoria, we joined industry colleagues to nominate Career Trackers for the Property Council of Australia’s Spiire Award for Innovation. We were very proud to have Career Trackers announced as the winner, one of the 21 entrants from the property sector.

Other RAP partners, like the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience, Yalari and Whitelion are inspiring Lend Lease employees to become involved in activities including: mentoring; engaging in cultural awareness sessions; volunteering time to build capacity in a range of Indigenous community and business organisations; setting new benchmarks in remote Indigenous housing design and delivery; and cycling across the NT raise awareness for Recognise, the campaign for Constitutional Recognition of Australia’s First Peoples.

Lend Lease Foundation

Lend Lease’s Foundation is responsible for initiatives that enrich the lives of employees and their families; aid charities and communities in which employees have an involvement; and, inspire broader interest in Lend Lease. Our approach is guided by knowledge, partnerships, and through collaboration with our people. Our actions are geared to achieving mutual benefit for our employees, our company and society. Three social issues offer greatest shared value potential for Lend Lease: disaster resilience, livelihoods and shelter. These areas will form the three pillars of our future external social investment strategy.

Above: Ben Bowen from the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence with Lend Lease cyclists on the journey to constitutional recognition in the NT. (Image courtesy of Recognition and Chloe Geraghty).