Our mission as a social enterprise
Our mission
We believe that WIBF can support the development of a financial services industry which offers women equal opportunities as employees, customers and entrepreneurs to reach their full potential, while enabling better businesses and places to work to be built and for the industry to become more sustainable. To achieve this, we connect our members to a wide network of influencers, business leaders and women at all stages of their careers, we challenge the industry to adopt new ideas and address structural barriers, and we inspire our wider community to push for change.
Testimonials
We're proud to support WIBF by being a founding partner of the ACT research to help retain and promote women in the financial services workforce.
To be a high-performing organisation, we need a team that is representative of the places where we operate and the clients we serve. Citi has a strong record of action on important issues related to diversity, inclusion and equality and supporting the work of WIBF is essential to ensure female representation continues to grow and is appropriately recognised.
We know that one piece of data must change: the number of women in leadership in business, technology and finance. It’s why we have set our own ambitious targets for women in our top leadership and it’s why we have been a long-term supporter of WIBF and will work with you to inspire our sector to hire, promote and develop women.
WIBF helps us to connect with institutions committed to driving change and to advancing equality across the UK.
Volunteer of the month
Nicky King, Head of Partnerships said, "I would like to nominate Debs for all her hard work with the new WIBF digital platform – relentlessly working with JBI and internally, with WIBF volunteers, to get this project scoped, managed and off the ground."
Rachel was nominated by Sarah Woodard, Co-Chair of the Future Leaders Shadow Board (FLSB), who stated: “Rachel is a pleasure to volunteer with and her dedication to the FLSB is admirable. Rachel is thoughtful and an excellent leader who we can all learn from”
Victoria Pringle, previous Glasgow Chair and now WIBF Co-Head of Mentoring, nominated Emily for this recognition and said “Her passion and enthusiasm for WIBF Scotland is a real inspiration, as she continuously looks at ways we can expand our network and mirror the success story of Edinburgh in Glasgow. I’d like to personally thank Emily for all her hard work on the WIBF Scotland Board.”
Jennie Koo, Head of Regions and Co-Chair of Birmingham Board, nominated Steph saying: “Steph goes above and beyond expectations, ensuring the regional activity not only runs smoothly but also we, as a regional management board, keep on top of all the required actions to get events up and running. A worthy winner, she excels at leading the regional operations journey, but also the delivery of activity we do best.”