Culture & Belonging

Our Mexico office earned the Socially Responsible Company ESR® badge, a prestigious certification awarded to companies for their “effort to assume a voluntary and public commitment to implement socially responsible management and continuous improvement as part of business culture and strategy.”

Detroit Experience Studio is a 10-week program providing Detroit high schoolers with an opportunity to explore creative careers, build marketing skills and work with industry leaders.

BRiM is a cross-industry initiative in the UK created to improve the representation of Black people in marketing. They provide actionable advice to help anyone, no matter their level, improve the representation of Black people in marketing.

We are proud partners of The Unstereotype Alliance in Brazil, a thought and action platform that seeks to eradicate harmful stereotypes in all media and advertising content. VML Brazil was named as Agency of Record by Unstereotype Alliance for their upcoming global campaign.

Through their 20/20 Program, our Brazil office is on a mission to promote racial diversity; delve into challenges and opportunities the deconstruction of unequal structures brings; and promote measures to ensure racial equity in the agency’s strategic teams with their Black Leadership Acceleration Program.

Outvertising is a UK nonprofit LGBTQ+ advertising/ marketing advocacy group. We made Outvertising’s Stand Your Ground Pledge to stay true to the commitments we made to the LGBTQ+ community in response to attacks on companies by anti-LGBTQ+ groups.

Our UK office was named top 25 employers to have completed the Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix Index. This tool assesses organizations’ commitments to the Ethnicity Agenda using a system based on guidance and recommendations consulting with organizations across sectors.