Company: HBCYF
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001089113-25-000040
Chunk: 397

Company: HSBC HOLDINGS PLC
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 20-F
Chunk 397
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 GlobalLeads                                         | US colleagues                                        |
| Location | Shanghai                                                   | New York                                 | Virtual                                         | London                                         | Singapore      | Dubai                                                    | Virtual                                                 | New York                                             |

| HSBC Holdings plcAnnual Report on Form 20-F | 285 |

The outputs and key themes arising from all engagements formed the bases of José Meade’s regular reports to the Board and facilitated Board discussions and decision-making. Further to José Meade’s commitment to attend the Group Executive Committee (’GEC’) and the Chairman’s Forum, by so doing this year he continued to help facilitate discussions on key themes, issues, employee sentiment, and other outcomes from the 2024 workforce engagements. His participation helped to ensure that good dialogue with senior executives and other Group subsidiary chairs was maintained and helped management to respond appropriately and in a timely manner to colleagues and their feedback. In addition, this allowed for José Meade to capture feedback from executives on workforce engagement and take their suggestions into consideration going forward. In his role, José Meade will continue to engage in these and other relevant forums during 2025. Workforce engagement non-executive Director activities during 2024 Key themes arose throughout the year such as, inclusion in the workplace, engagement with HSBC top talent, and Group Strategy. The themes guided conversations between colleagues and Board members and helped to shape the 2024 workforce engagement programme to ensure that it developed events that were reflective of these key topics. Non-executive Director sponsorship of our Global Employee Resource Groups (’ERGs’) continued during 2024. Each Director is aligned to a Global ERG and during the course of 2024 has met with their respective ERGs to discuss the ERGs’ strategy for the year and upcoming priorities. Directors will also take part in other ERG events where possible, and every effort is made to facilitate local ERG members meeting their aligned Director during planned Board travel. Set out below is a selection of workforce engagement events that were held in 2024 across multiple regions, attended by José Meade and other members of the Board where the occasion permitted.

| China                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| –Directors completed a floor walk to meet with teams fromacross the Wealth and Private Banking business line, as wellas the Pinnacle team.–Directors learnt about the financial planning journey of anHSBC customer, the role colleagues play and the digitalcapabilities available.–Connected with various ERG representatives and colleaguesacross functions to informally discuss and shareexperiences. |
| New York