These keynotes are often selected by organisations looking for a speaker to cover aspects of developing an Inclusive Organisational Culture - including aspects of Inclusive Leadership and fundamental aspects of DE&I.
Supermarkets have been telling us for years that we, as consumers, are demanding our fruit and vegetables to be perfect, to all be the same size, shape, and colour. Consequently, millions upon millions of tonnes of perfectly good apples, carrots, potatoes, and courgettes are being discarded each year. Yet when we dive deeper, we find that these discarded items still have the same crunch and are still as nutritional, the potatoes make perfectly good French Fries - our fruit and veg does not have to conform to this very narrow visual standard as we've been led to believe.
In line with many organisations, you are looking to reach out to future employees and be as inclusive as you can be, am I right? Of course. If COVID-19 in 2020 taught us anything it’s that we need to be person-centric, and understand the need of the individual, but even with our best of intentions, we can often find that ideal candidates do not engage in your recruitment process or drop out early on.
Language has the power to divide and destroy, yet we are all human. If we truly listen to each other, understand, and actually communicate, then language has the power to unite, to bring love, friendships, and change the world for the better.
When we talk about Unconscious bias then this refers to a quick opinion about a situation or individual without being aware of such. Our brains form biases by using knowledge about social situations, attitudes, cultures, stereotypes and more. We can pick up and learn these things from the media and through experiences throughout life.
We recognise that in our business it is our leaders that have the most impact on the culture of the organisation.
Diversity and Inclusion is not just a box to check, diversity is in all of us, and we all want to feel included and that sense of belonging. What we all would benefit from is a world, a society, and a workplace culture where everyone, no matter what their background, is treated with Fairness, Respect, Equality and Dignity plus has Agency over their opportunities
