IKON Services recognises that an inclusive and culturally safe environment is essential for long term business success. To become a culturally safe and diverse organisation we need to invest our time and attention into our current and future employees by helping us all to build our own cultural understanding and capabilities.
IKON Services is fully engaged and committed to our journey towards a more diverse workforce, better race relations and ultimately a reconciled Australia. We are extremely confident that this Reflect RAP will enhance the cultural capabilities of our people and provide sustainable employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The latter will be achieved through an employee mentoring and post-placement support program which includes Health and Well-being screening and pathways to complete employment. We have also redeveloped our employment induction process to help us with identifying our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce.
In 2019, IKON Services engaged 200 Game Carlton Football Club life member and proud Yorta Yorta man Andrew Walker to develop the organisations first Reconciliation Action Plan. Andrew joined the IKON team as Head of Indigenous Programs and Employment and has been the key driving force behind IKON Services’ Reflect RAP development.
Andrew’s engagement reinforces IKON Services’ senior management team’s commitment to the development and implementation of the company’s first Reconciliation Action Plan. With this commitment came an overwhelming amount of support from IKON Services team members, leading to the development of our first-ever RAP working group. This group includes two of IKON Services’ Aboriginal employees and an Aboriginal Elder, Aunty Pam Pederson, who have helped shape the direction of our RAP. During our first RAP working group meetings, it became very clear we were already on our reconciliation journey and had already developed major partnerships. These partnerships are documented as part of our RAP under ‘Our Partnerships and Current Activities’.
Members of the RAP working group will lead the implementation of our RAP, with the support of Managing Director George Tahan, and will be given all the necessary resources to ensure IKON Services’ RAP journey is a successful one.