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New Research from Kincentric Redefines Inclusion and Suggests Leaders Are Responsible for Creating a Culture of Inclusion in the Workplace

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CHICAGO, June 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Despite professed commitments to create a more inclusive workplace, many organizations still struggle to gain traction, according to a new report by Kincentric, the part of global leadership advisory firm Spencer Stuart that is specifically focused on unlocking the power of people and teams to ignite change and achieve organizational success. Based on a survey of nearly 5000 employees across the globe, the research reveals the critical role leaders play to drive inclusion, with benefits ranging from better employee retention and engagement to improved team agility during challenging times. 

According to Kincentric’s findings, there are four key elements required for inclusion in the workplace: people are valued, are enabled to use their voice, have decision-making influence and can contribute their best. However, in this latest research, 73% of employees report having experienced exclusion in the workplace, while only one in three employees say they work in a culture that powers inclusion – one that lifts everyone up and in which everyone is treated fairly, has equal opportunities and can speak up, be heard and respected.

Kincentric conducted the study to better define and understand the experiences that drive or derail inclusion and demonstrate its impact on overall business performance, and their full report shares several notable findings:

  • Ultimately, inclusive cultures are created at the top. Leaders must walk the talk and model inclusive behaviors or risk their credibility. Nearly 1 out of 3 employees view senior leadership actions as performative or insincere when words are not backed up by action. Of those employees who question the sincerity of their leaders’ actions, only 3% report experiencing a culture of inclusion.
  • In general, senior leaders often have a more favorable outlook on inclusion than employees. Senior leaders are having a more favorable day-to-day experience of inclusion (62%) than managers (48%) or employees (26%). This is causing a disconnect between leader’s perceptions and employee’s reality.
  • Inclusion drives retention and engagement. Individuals at workplaces they describe as inclusive are twice as likely to stay with their organization and three times more likely to have a sense of belonging than those who don’t.
  • Inclusion can maximize the potential of people and teams, creating better team dynamics and expanding skill sets across teams. Additionally, employees that report experiencing inclusion in the workplace are four times more equipped to navigate challenges and work collaboratively to find solutions in the face of conflicting opinions.

“Leaders can make or break an inclusive culture. Inclusion doesn’t just happen – Inclusion is leader-led and must be intentional,” says Dnika J. Travis, Ph.D., Director of Research and Insights at Kincentric, who led the research. “Creating a culture of inclusion is a business imperative. It ensures every employee is valued and able to fully contribute to the organization, delivering a number of advantages, including improvements in retention, engagement and team performance.”

Kincentric offers actionable advice to leaders looking to build a culture of inclusion:

  • Take charge with an unwavering commitment: Inclusion must be embedded in everything you do, from the talent systems that drive consistency in your employee experience to words, behaviors and actions that reinforce a culture of inclusion that enables people to thrive. As a leader, you must be willing to talk about the difficult aspects of your culture and shift performance management processes to root out and address bias. It is also crucial that you put processes in place that deal with and eliminate any acts of exclusion and mistreatment you observe – don’t leave it to anyone else to tackle.
  • Be willing to embrace discomfort. CEOs and senior leaders can achieve greater impact by not shying away from tough, unsurfaced, or polarizing aspects of an organization’s culture. As a leader, not acknowledging, validating, or truly understanding what is happening within your organization undermines your credibility and employees may perceive this as a lack of sincerity in your efforts. You must also have the courage to address your own non-inclusive behaviors while challenging others to do the same.
  • Embrace failures and adopt the right mindset. Achieving inclusion requires a firm commitment to learning and refining your approach based on data, insights, and the experiences of the people you are seeking to include. You and your organization will make mistakes, but that doesn’t necessarily mean what you’re doing is not working; it’s what you do next that is most vital.
  • Step back and take stock. Be honest with yourself. How have your assumptions around organizational cultural norms impacted your ability to lead inclusively? Have your actions affected your credibility, and are there any steps you need to take to redress this? You must hold yourself and everyone else in the organization accountable for building a true culture of inclusion—in which all employees are valued and can contribute their full potential.

Click here to view the full report.

About Kincentric  

Kincentric, a Spencer Stuart company, helps organizations unlock the power of people and teams to ignite change and drive better business results. With decades of experience and specialist expertise in areas such as culture, employee engagement, leadership assessment and development, HR and talent advisory, and diversity, equity and inclusion, Kincentric uses data-driven insights to architect solutions that add value, enhance agility and increase organizational effectiveness. For more information, visit kincentric.com.

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+1 312 217 5655

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Invitation to presentation of EQT AB’s Q1 Announcement 2024

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STOCKHOLM, April 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — EQT AB’s Q1 Announcement 2024 will be published on Thursday 18 April 2024 at approximately 07:30 CEST. EQT will host a conference call at 08:30 CEST to present the report, followed by a Q&A session.

The presentation and a video link for the webcast will be available here from the time of the publication of the Q1 Announcement.

To participate by phone and ask questions during the Q&A, please register here in advance. Upon registration, you will receive your personal dial-in details.

The webcast can be followed live here and a recording will be available afterwards.

Information on EQT AB’s financial reporting

The EQT AB Group has a long-term business model founded on a promise to its fund investors to invest capital, drive value creation and create consistent attractive returns over a 5 to 10-year horizon. The Group’s financial model is primarily affected by the size of its fee-generating assets under management, the performance of the EQT funds and its ability to recruit and retain top talent.

The Group operates in a market driven by long-term trends and thus believes quarterly financial statements are less relevant for investors. However, in order to provide the market with relevant and suitable information about the Group’s development, EQT publishes quarterly announcements with key operating numbers that are relevant for the business performance (taking Nasdaq’s guidance note for preparing interim management statements into consideration). In addition, a half-year report and a year-end report including financial statements and further information relevant for investors is published. Finally, EQT also publishes an annual report including sustainability reporting.

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Olof Svensson, Head of Shareholder Relations, +46 72 989 09 15
EQT Shareholder Relations, [email protected]

Rickard Buch, Head of Corporate Communications, +46 72 989 09 11
EQT Press Office, [email protected], +46 8 506 55 334

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Kia presents roadmap to lead global electrification era through EVs, HEVs and PBVs

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  • Kia drives forward transformation into ‘Sustainable Mobility Solutions Provider’
  • Roadmap enables Kia to proactively respond to uncertainties in mobility industry landscape, including changes in EV market
  • Company to expand EV line-up with more models; enhance HEV line-up to manage fluctuation in EV demand
    • Goal to sell 1.6 million EVs annually in 2030, introducing 15 models
    • PBV to play a key role in Kia’s growth, targeting 250,000 PBV sales annually by 2030 with PV5 and PV7 models
  • Kia to invest KRW 38 trillion by 2028, including KRW 15 trillion for future business
  • 2024 business guidance : KRW 101 tln in revenue with KRW 12 tln in operating profit; operating profit margin of 11.9% on sales of 3.2 million units globally
  • CEO reaffirms Kia’s commitment to ESG management

SEOUL, South Korea, April 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Kia Corporation (Kia) today shared an update on its future strategies and financial targets at its CEO Investor Day in Seoul, Korea.

Based on its innovative achievements in the years since the announcement of mid-to-long-term business initiatives, Kia is focusing on updating its 2030 strategy announced last year and further strengthening its business strategy in response to uncertainties across the global mobility industry landscape.

During the event, Kia updated its mid-to-long-term business strategy with a focus on electrification, and its PBV business. Kia reiterated its 2030 annual sales target of 4.3 million units, including 1.6 million units of electric vehicles (EVs). The 2030 4.3 million annual sales target is 34.4 percent higher than the brand’s 2024 annual goal of 3.2 million units.

The company also plans to become a leading EV brand by selling a higher percentage of electrified models among its total sales, including hybrid electric vehicles (HEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and battery EVs, projecting electrified model sales of 2.48 million units annually or 58 percent of Kia’s total sales in 2030.

“Following our successful brand relaunch in 2021, Kia is enhancing its global business strategy to further the establishment of an innovative EV line-up and accelerate the company’s transition to a sustainable mobility solutions provider,” said Ho Sung Song, President and CEO of Kia. “By responding effectively to changes in the mobility market and efficiently implementing mid-to-long-term strategies, Kia is strengthening its brand commitment to the wellbeing of customers, communities, the global society, and the environment.”

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BioVaxys Technology Corp. Provides Bi-Weekly MCTO Status Update

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VANCOUVER, BC, April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — BioVaxys Technology Corp. (CSE: BIOV) (FRA: 5LB) (OTCQB: BVAXF) (the “Company“) is providing this bi-weekly update on the status of the management cease trade order granted on February 29, 2024 (the “MCTO“), by its principal regulator, the Ontario Securities Commission (the “OSC“), under National Policy 12-203 – Management Cease Trade Orders (“NP 12-203“), following the Company’s announcement on February 21, 2024 (the “Default Announcement“), that it was unable to file its audited annual financial statements for the year ended October 31, 2023, its management’s discussion and analysis of financial statements for the year ended October 31, 2023, its annual information form for the year ended October 31, 2023, and related filings (collectively, the “Required Annual Filings“). Under National Instrument 51-102, the Required Annual Filings were required to be made no later than February 28, 2024.

As a result of the delay in filing the Required Annual Filings, the Company was unable to file its interim financial statements for the three months ended January 31, 2024, its management’s discussion and analysis of financial statements for the three months ended January 31, 2024, and related filings (collectively, the “Required Interim Filings“). Under National Instrument 51-102, the Required Interim Filings were required to be made no later than April 1, 2024.

The Company anticipates filing the Required Annual Filings by April 30, 2024. The auditor of the Company requires additional time to complete its audit of the Company, including the Company’s recent acquisition of all intellectual property, immunotherapeutics platform technologies, and clinical stage assets of the former IMV Inc. that closed on February 16, 2024. In addition, the Company anticipates filing the Required Interim Filings immediately after the filing of the Required Annual Filings.

Except as herein disclosed, there are no material changes to the information contained in the Default Announcement. In addition, (i) the Company is satisfying and confirms that it intends to continue to satisfy the provisions of the alternative information guidelines under NP 12-203 and issue bi-weekly default status reports for so long as the delay in filing the Required Annual Filings and/or Required Interim Filings is continuing, each of which will be issued in the form of a press release; (ii) the Company does not have any information at this time regarding any anticipated specified default subsequent to the default in filing the Required Annual Filings and Required Interim Filings; (iii) the Company is not subject to any insolvency proceedings; and (iv) there is no material information concerning the affairs of the Company that has not been generally disclosed.

About BioVaxys Technology Corp.

BioVaxys Technology Corp. (www.biovaxys.com), a biopharmaceuticals company registered in British Columbia, Canada, is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving patient lives with novel immunotherapies based on the DPX™ immune-educating technology platform and it’s HapTenix© ‘neoantigen’ tumor cell construct platform, for treating cancers, infectious disease, antigen desensitization, and other immunological fields. The Company’s clinical stage pipeline includes maveropepimut-S which is in Phase II clinical development for advanced Relapsed-Refractory Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL) and platinum resistant ovarian cancer, and BVX-0918, a personalized immunotherapeutic vaccine using it proprietary HapTenix© ‘neoantigen’ tumor cell construct platform which is soon to enter Phase I in Spain for treating refractive late-stage ovarian cancer. The Company is also capitalizing on its tumor immunology know-how and creation of a unique library of T-lymphocytes & other datasets post-vaccination with its personalized immunotherapeutic vaccines to utilize predictive algorithms and other technologies to identify new targetable tumor antigens. BioVaxys common shares are listed on the CSE under the stock symbol “BIOV” and trade on the Frankfurt Bourse (FRA: 5LB) and in the US (OTCQB: BVAXF). For more information, visit www.biovaxys.com and connect with us on X and LinkedIn.

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