Mercer and EDGE Certification Announce Alliance to Help Accelerate Companies’ Gender Equality
Programs
Mercer | EDGE to help companies build a gender-equal culture and organization equipped for the
workforce of the future
Mercer, a global consulting leader in advancing health, wealth and career, and EDGE Certification, the provider of the leading
global assessment methodology and business certification standard for gender equality, today announced they have collaborated to
create Mercer | EDGE, an accelerated, globally scalable, comprehensive solution for organizations seeking to enhance their gender
diversity programs. Mercer | EDGE offers a holistic, robust approach to analyzing companies’ gender gaps while aligning leaders and
stakeholders around finding concrete solutions to close those gaps.
“We are thrilled to partner with EDGE to help companies achieve greater gender diversity. Mercer | EDGE will enable
organizations to identify and eliminate gender gaps.” said Pat Milligan, Senior Partner and Global Leader, Multinational Client
Group and When Women Thrive, Mercer. “In addition to helping companies create optimal workplaces for women and men, it will also
help organizations to benefit from a more diverse workforce.”
Mercer | EDGE aims to help companies with actions and the ability to provide transparency along their gender equality
journey. Benefitting from Mercer and EDGE’s combined global expertise and local resources, companies will be able to obtain an
appraisal and documentation of their business imperatives for gender equality to align their key stakeholders on the importance of
improving it. Mercer| EDGE can also prepare companies to become eligible for EDGE Certification. As a leading independent,
third-party certification system, EDGE Certification brings credibility, public recognition, accountability and transparency to a
company’s commitment and progress on workplace gender equality.
Offered as part of the solution is an executive network membership to connect an organization’s leaders with peers and experts
who are also focused on diversity and inclusion as well as a communication toolkit to publicize an organization’s commitment to
gender equality (internally and externally) and to use for recruiting and retention purposes.
“Through a powerful combination of Mercer’s global gender research and consulting expertise, and EDGE’s leading global
assessment methodology and certification standard, companies can now accelerate their progress toward gender equality and increase
their impact,” said Aniela Unguresan, Co-Founder, EDGE Certified Foundation.
For more information, please visit
https://www.mercer.com/our-thinking/mercer-edge.html
About Mercer
Mercer delivers advice and technology-driven solutions that help organizations meet the health, wealth and career needs of a
changing workforce. Mercer’s more than 23,000 employees are based in 44 countries and the firm operates in over 130 countries.
Mercer is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Marsh & McLennan Companies (NYSE: MMC), the leading global professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy and
people. With nearly 65,000 colleagues and annual revenue over $14 billion, through its market-leading companies including
Marsh,
Guy Carpenter and
Oliver Wyman, Marsh & McLennan helps clients navigate an increasingly dynamic and complex environment. For more
information, visit
www.mercer.com. Follow Mercer on Twitter
@Mercer.
MERCER is a trademark of Mercer (US) Inc.
About EDGE Certification
EDGE is the leading global assessment methodology and business certification standard for gender equality. It measures where
organisations stand in terms of gender balance across their pipeline, pay equity, effectiveness of policies and practices to ensure
equitable career flows as well as inclusiveness of their culture. Launched at the World Economic Forum in 2011, EDGE Certification
has been designed to help companies not only create an optimal workplace for women and men, but also benefit from it. EDGE stands
for Economic Dividends for Gender Equality and is distinguished by its rigor and focus on business impact.
EDGE assessment methodology was developed by the EDGE Certified Foundation, which continues to act as the guardian of the EDGE
methodology and certification standards. EDGE Certification is currently working with nearly 200 organizations, in 50 countries and
23 industries.
EDGE is a trademark of Edge Certified Foundation.
Alayna Francis
+44 0207 178 3378
Alayna.Francis@mercer.com
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