Membership to the Diversity Study Group brings together an industry of people of different cultures, backgrounds, circumstances and viewpoints. Together with our members, we are committed to seeing that reflected and sustainably developed at all levels throughout shipping and maritime organisations.
We offer a number of membership options designed to support our DEI community through detailed DEI data benchmarking exercises, regular networking, focus sessions and our Annual Review.
Benefits of our range of Diversity Study Group membership options include:
- Guidance on DEI trends and best practice
- Participation in our annual Diversity in Shipping study (open for completion January-September)
- A confidential interactive web-based business intelligence dashboard for benchmarking, reporting and strategy development
- Ability to drill down into study results for your organisation or the whole anonymised dataset by demographic subgroups, to explore questions specific to your organisation
- Ability to assess your organisations’ current level of diversity and inclusion and benchmark against present standards in our industry
- A detailed understanding of the attitudes and perceptions of diversity and inclusion policies and practices in the workplace
- Greater employee engagement and retention leading to improved performance and satisfaction
- Enhanced employee attraction
- Insight into how DEI strategies can support ESG reporting requirements
- Collaboration and networking opportunities with shipping and maritime executive management professionals
- Participation in our Annual Review
- Half day DEI focus session annually (option to attend in person or virtually)
- Discounted DEI consultancy and training services
Full, basic and associate membership options are available, please see below.
MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS
Access for all employees to participate in the Diversity in Shipping Study



Access to the Diversity Study Group Annual Review



Access headline data securely online for your own company



Access headline data securely online for all participating organisations
(Company details will be kept anonymous)



Sort and manipulate data securely online for your own company



Sort and manipulate data securely online for all participating organisations
(Company details will be kept anonymous)



Access to all collaboration and networking opportunities



Invitation to the Diversity Study Group Annual Review deep dive



Half day DEI focus session


