Career and leadership development

This leadership program accelerates the development of our high-potential women so that they can occupy larger and more complex roles at BV as quickly as possible. The program achieves this by: 

• building a strong network across the BV Group, offering global support, challenges, and opportunities 

• enriching the self-awareness of participants and enabling them to leverage their strengths and build their authentic leadership styles 

• enhancing and developing participants’ leadership skills and capabilities to drive the execution of the Group’s strategy and preparing participants for future career opportunities 

The program includes self-assessments, coaching, mentoring and in-person summits in central locations such as Bogotá and Dubai.

This program ensures our team leaders and managers around the world possess a robust and consistent level of competency and knowledge to lead their teams. This mandatory program for all team leaders and managers focuses on how to apply the BV Values and Leadership Expectations in their everyday interactions with team members. In addition, the program also builds foundational capabilities in our thousands of team leaders and managers in the following three core areas in executing the Bureau Veritas strategy: 

• driving vision and purpose 
• building engaged teams 
• growing people

“One Young World” is a global initiative that invites thousands of young leaders from organizations around the globe to listen to and interact with more than 100 counsellors who cover topics such as Ethical Leadership, Climate Change, Ocean regeneration, Health, Conflicts & Wars, Girls’ Education, Disability, Women in STEM, LGBT+, Refugees and Modern slavery. 

Bureau Veritas sends a number of high-potential employees to One Young World which accelerates their personal development and learning and builds their understanding of the role they could play in shaping the world’s future. As an organization that helps society become more sustainable, our employees who participate in this program already bring back to us new perspectives from sharing ideas with other participants, the program’s counsellors and its guest speakers that have a highly enriching impact on our business.

This program builds the inclusive leadership capabilities of all our team leaders and managers. This program is mandatory in recognition of the need for our team leaders and managers to lead their team members with inclusive behaviors and to act as role models and inclusive leaders across the organization. The core components of the program comprise: 

• inclusive behaviors to remove unconscious bias in our everyday words and actions when leading teams 

• attracting, identifying, evaluating, and selecting talent fairly and inclusively 

• preventing harassment and creating an open & inclusive culture 

• awareness of relevant policies and how to apply them in the workplace

This program’s participants are high-potential women who, over six months, undertake group and individual assessments and group and individual learning activities on priority topics to accelerate their development. The learning activities were complemented by individual executive coaching that strengthened participants’ capabilities, based on needs identified by participants, their program coaches and their managers. 

High-potential women were selected for this program from different markets and countries who participated in a year-long experience, which included mentoring from senior leaders and group workshops on priority topics such as project development, effective communications, and influence. The design of the program has enabled it to be adapted, scaled, and deployed to more individuals across Latin America (both women and men) to build more diversity across the region. This adapted program includes a focus on creating a better understanding of a leader’s personal role as the promoter of more inclusive workplaces.

This program targets the development of individuals identified to assume larger future roles and combines several learning experiences, including 360⁰ assessments, feedback/coaching, mentoring and seminars. 

The center also develops effective collaboration capabilities through team innovation projects and ongoing support from mentors who are senior leaders across our operations in Europe and Africa. The role of the mentors is to provide feedback on participants’ overall development, as well as on the team innovation projects, several of which have resulted in new service offerings to our customers.