Purple Champion Leadership Model for Executive Sponsors (sponsored by HSBC)

Front cover of Purple Champion Leadership Model, sponsored by HSBC with photo of two female attendees at an in personal PurpleSpace event looking  towards a speaker who is off camera

Purple Champion Leadership Model: The essential attributes of impactful executive disability sponsors, which has been sponsored by HSBC Bank, with foreword from Ian Stuart, CEO of HSBC UK and global executive sponsor of the Ability ERG. 

This refreshed model builds on work we started in 2019, speaking to executive sponsors, DEI professionals and ERG/Network leaders, asking for their views on the key characteristics of exceptional sponsors.

This resource is designed to showcase the essential leadership attributes that are required to drive disability cultural change within the workplace – and demonstrate the importance of these attributes in creating, building and sustaining high-performing ERG/Networks.

All resources are free to our members.


If you are not a member but would like to know more, please email us at info@purplespace.org.

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