By Clare Wimalasundera, Director of PR and Marketing At In Diverse Company, we believe that shifting organisational culture is the only effective way to create an inclusive environment in the workplace. Although an organisation’s policies and processes, stated values and leadership all contribute to its overall culture, our research shows that...
By Caitlin Bethell, Head of PsychologyEmployee engagement is the emotional commitment an employee has to their organisation. For people to feel truly engaged within their organisations they need to feel focused, valued, included and inspired. They need to feel like they belong. But more often than...
By Caitlin Bethell, Head of Psychology Employee engagement is the emotional commitment an employee has to their organisation. For people to feel truly engaged within their organisations they need to feel focused, valued, included and inspired. They need to feel like they belong. But more often than...
By Clare Wimalasundera, Director of PR and MarketingResearch shows that opportunities for development have become the second most important factor in workplace happiness (after the nature of the work itself). We are born with an instinct to learn and at work we are constantly looking for ways to do things better –...
By Darla DeGrace, SVP, Head of Client Partnerships - US "We're in denial of the African holocaust. Most times, people don't want to talk about it…We don't want to sit down and listen to these things, or to discuss them. But we have to."- Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter...
By Johanna Beresford, CEO and Pooja Khajuria, Consultant - UKOver the past few months our professional and personal lives have been so different due to lockdown. Unexpectedly and perhaps for the first time for most of us, we faced exclusion from our regular lives and a sense of isolation. While this was temporary for...
By Saloni Bhatia, Psychology Researcher Influencing wellbeing, life satisfaction, economic growth and even social cohesion, social mobility is an important measure of development in a society[1]. It refers to the ability of individuals and groups to shift across socio-economic levels (ideally upward). Right now, following the global...
By Jai Thade, L&D FacilitatorMental Health Awareness month has arrived at a time when virtually everybody is acutely facing some stress or the other. We find ourselves without the customary trappings of the outside world to bury ourselves into. With unprecedent restrictions placed on our...
By Jai Thade, L&D FacilitatorMental Health Awareness month has arrived at a time when virtually everybody is acutely facing some stress or the other. We find ourselves without the customary trappings of the outside world to bury ourselves into. With unprecedent restrictions placed on our...
By Prachi Laddha, Consultant - IndiaEven though it’s broadly accepted that Diversity and Inclusion as a concept is one that brings great benefits to a business, many elements of D&I that come to mind are those that we can see or easily identify. However there...