Proud of our Migrant Leaders partnership with Sparta Global supporting refugees and closing the tech skills gap.

Migrant Leaders internship at Sparta Global introduced the technology sector to refugees, provided initial training and supported them in taking up opportunities at Sparta Global and their corporate clients. We are really pleased to have designed this internship in collaboration with Sparta Global and the charities Migrant Help and Migrant Leaders.

See the video here: Sparta Global

Migrant Leaders and Kantar partnership since 2018 continues each year with Spring and Summer internships across multiple Kantar divisions, including Kantar Public, Kantar Consulting, Kantar Insights and Kantar Media. See our first collaboration video with Kantar Consulting: Kantar

Migrant Leaders and ABB partnership since 2021 continues each year with the Summer internship for our engineering students interested in STEM careers and sustainability. See our first collaboration video with ABB: ABB

Migrant Leaders celebration of 1000 mentors was hosted at the new flagship offices of Anglo American: ML Mentors Conference 2022 - Celebration of 1000 Mentors - YouTube

We had the honour of welcoming our Migrant Leaders Patrons as speaks; Dr Yvonne Thompson CBE and Rene Carayol MBE, with Migrant Leaders Trustee Saeed Atcha MBE providing his comments: ML Mentors Conference 2022 - Saeed Atcha MBE - YouTube

Rene Carayol MBE expresses: “I have yet to see anyone achieve their leadership potential without the intervention of a mentor. Recent research at Harvard has shown, mentees get a 16% career acceleration. The mentor, a 53% career acceleration! Why wouldn’t you? It was a stunning auditorium. At Anglo American’s London head office, I had the privilege of speaking to the brilliant mentees and mentors of the outstanding Migrant Leaders initiative. Elham Fardad, the founder and inspiration behind this ground-breaking initiative, shared with us that they now have...

Migrant Leaders partnership with Ipsos brings this first insights day and workshop at at their London office where our mentees were introduced to market and social research and the wide range of research areas through workshop rotations across impact stations: Ipsos - YouTube

Kelly Beaver, Chief Executive Ipsos UK, welcomed Migrant Leaders: “Today we are here in the Ipsos London office to welcome a group of Migrant Leaders for the future. We need people  from such a diverse range in society doing the research, if we are really going to give that understanding to our clients. So diversity underpins who we are and what we do.”

Migrant Leaders partnership with Salesforce brings this first insights day and workshop at Salesforce where our mentees were introduced to many Salesforce professionals to hear their career stories, tips and to network: Salesforce - YouTube

The workshop element used visualisation to help our Migrant Leaders mentees devise a storyboard with images of who they would each like to be in key areas of their life: work, health, relationships and purpose.

Shirley Morrison, Regional Sales Director Salesforce, shared the essence of the workshop: “I hope the mentees walk away feeling inspired today; we want them to get excited about the future and help them take the small steps to get there, and most importantly to believe in themselves that they can achieve anything.”

Proud of our Migrant Leaders partnership with Illumina bringing such opportunities, innovations and experiences to our talented young people. We look forward to continuing our collaborations with Illumina: Illumina - YouTube

Bobby Kaura at Illumina for Start Ups  explains: “Every now and then, in our additional responsibilities to work, we have the opportunity to extend our good fortune and privilege to others. As Chair of Illumina's EMEA group (Impact My Shade) for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, we got to partner with Migrant Leaders Charity to share our story and the work we do, with students from all backgrounds, hoping we can support the development of future leaders of tomorrow, today. This quote makes it all worthwhile: 'it was really inspiring and it gave a unique perspective in to a company that I had never heard of, that now I secretly want to work for' - Dhyey Ghetia, Migrant Leaders Mentee.
Thank you to Migrant Leaders, Elham Fardad and the...

Migrant Leaders is in its 4^th year of collaborations across Kantar divisions through our innovative internships at Kantar Consulting, Kantar Insights, Kantar Public, and now with the addition of our Kantar Media internships. We bring you this 'hybrid' internship opportunity, a mixture of virtual and onsite experience at Kantar London offices, a one week work immersion with the Media by Kantar division, a global audience intelligence, advertising and consumer intelligence consultancy.

See video of our Kantar opportunities webinar: Kantar Migrant Leaders Webinar - June 2022 - YouTube

Read more about our latest Kantar Media internship:https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6943561345401319424

Migrant Leaders launches its partnership with Westcon-Comstor by delivering a 3 day hybrid internship programme: Westcon-Comstor - YouTube

Elham Fardad, Founder & CEO of Migrant Leaders, said: “All our interns thoroughly enjoyed the experience and felt incredibly welcomed by the whole team. Over the three days I watched them open up, grow in confidence and really start to think about how they could bring their values, education, strengths and capabilities to an international business like Westcon-Comstor.”

Runa Macleod, VP Marketing Westcon-Comstor, expresses that “If we’re serious about inclusion, we have to start early”. Read full article: If we’re serious about inclusion, we have to start early (westconcomstor.com)

Migrant Leaders and Anglo American launch our Mentee Development Webinars to boost employability, knowledge and skills.

See videos of our webinars: Elham Fardad - YouTube