Andrew is proactive in challenging inequality, and establishing and embedding strategic support to create a more inclusive working environment where diversity thrives. He has worked closely with the Group CEO to establish a leadership goal for all appointments to senior management and leadership to reflect a 50:50 gender ratio by 2021. He has built awareness and understanding of the importance of gender diversity through encouraging his team to lead by example, through educational support including unconscious bias training and by speaking passionately internally and externally and communicating regularly with all colleagues. Andrew also published the ‘Group Finance Maternity Charter’, a leadership commitment to supporting the needs of expectant and new working mothers, and regularly hosts lunches with colleagues who are returning from maternity leave to network and build confidence. He commissioned a return to work pilot scheme, actively engages men in gender diversity and hosts a regular ‘Role Model’ networking series with senior female leaders. Externally, among other initiatives and engagements, Andrew established the Gold Sovereign award. Until 1972, when Ireland joined the EU, upon marriage, women were required by law to leave employment and ‘return to the home’, and were presented with a gold sovereign on their departure. Andrew repurposed the gold sovereign, presenting them to people who are driving the I&D agenda in the organisation and in wider society.