We are continuously building the company we all want to work for, and our customers want to work with. That’s why our efforts not only benefit our colleagues, they are also key to addressing and solving complex business needs and challenges for Syneos Health and our customers.
We celebrate our talent; we live our Values and we won’t tolerate discrimination of any type.
We take pride in creating an environment where our employees – of all backgrounds and beliefs, including: Race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, mental, physical and invisible disabilities and veteran status – are encouraged to bring their Total Selves to work each day and embrace our culture.
We know companies who are leaders in inclusion, equality and diversity are more likely to be high performing, able to embrace change, and achieve better business outcomes. Why? Because when we bring together diversity of thought, backgrounds, cultures and perspectives – we’re able to build a place where everyone feels like they belong – we can focus our time, talents and experience on tackling the toughest problems in our industry. We stand to meet that challenge and have created a strategic framework centered around our People, our Customers and our Community, to guide our journey.
Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) focus on our employees and enable our leaders to listen and learn together. Ultimately, they foster a work environment that includes and embraces racial, ethnic, and gender diversity and other individual differences that ultimately allow employees to bring their Total Selves to work. Our ERGs are voluntary, employee led, and Company supported. They aim to build community and solve business problems while cultivating leadership skills. Syneos Health employees join ERGs to:
We are growing our ERG presence globally and adding new ERGs every year. In summer 2021, we added three ERGs – Developing Professionals, Asian, and People with Disabilities – and our Latino ERG is underway. Check back for more information as these groups grow.
With 500+ members globally focused on recruitment, representation, career development and visibility of Black leaders, the group drive awareness and spark change across the business through education events that support a culture where Black employees can thrive.
The group have hosted numerous events and educational sessions, including Black History Month (US and UK), Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Day; engage employees through guest speakers, panels and internal events such as a book club; actively participate in our Mentor program and in the McKinsey Black Leadership Academy (US and EMEA) with continued cohorts planned on an ongoing basis.
Harvey Austin,
Co-lead, Black ERG, U.S.
With 750+ members globally focused on advancing the careers of women through achieving work-life presence and enabling personal and professional growth. Our Women’s Group has pioneered our ERG efforts and with an overall population of 67% women globally and 57% of directors and above filled by women. Our ERG helps to maintain this strength by engaging women across the globe in a variety of forums and communities.
Each year the ERG raises awareness around International Women’s Day and partners with corporate through our Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association (HBA) Rising Stars and Luminary Program. In 2021, the ERG has grown globally launching communities across EMEA and India.
Jelena Kunic,
Co-lead, Women’s ERG, Serbia
Our members are globally focused on building a safe, inclusive work environment and educating the Syneos Health community on workplace challenges the community faces.
In addition to education and awareness campaigns during Pride month annually, the group launched a pronoun awareness project encouraging colleagues to support in email signatures, during panel events and when introducing themselves in meetings.
Heather Martin,
Co-lead, LGBTQIA+ ERG, U.S.
At Veterans ERG is focused on creating a veteran-friendly environment and partnering with the business to find solutions to hiring and retaining veterans.
Veterans comprise 11% of our workforce in the US which drives active members across the globe (primarily in the US and UK) focused on continuing to attract and retain veterans at Syneos Health. In 2021, the group launched a hiring initiative within the Clinical Development Solutions business unit and is actively partnering with Talent Acquisition and local veterans’ organizations. Once veterans are hired, they are partnered with an onboarding ‘coach’ and embraced by the veteran community.
Shaun Williams,
Executive Sponsor, Veterans ERG, U.S.