Stop Losing Your Diverse Talent and What To Do About It

Whilst some organisations have seen a massive uptick in D&I activity in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. Others have seen major programmes, like leadership development and diversity projects take a back seat for business critical activities bought about due to the pandemic.

Whatever the situation EDI is here to stay, especially as more private equity and venture capital firms are now asking for and looking for more diversity and sustainability across their portfolios. EDI and ESG initiatives should already have a seat at the boardroom table and if not they are waiting at the door to be let in.

But where do you start and how do you develop a better initiative across Diversity, Equality and Inclusion?

How do you help your leaders become more effective at leading higher performance inclusive teams?

How do you create a more effective onboarding strategy which incorporates talent, acquisition and retention activities that don’t just tick a box and hit a quota but deliver long term sustainable shifts in the dial and realise better equality and inclusion for everyone…

These are some of the subjects we covered in a series of EDI Cohorts and confidential collaboration events.

As with all large scale fundamental change and behavioural change, these initiatives take time.

We have seen many businesses fall foul of working towards agreed quotas and averages, only to see huge efforts and wins at hiring diverse talent and leaders, fail as this same talent starts leaving in waves as the inner workings of the organisation have not changed.

Without inclusion there is no diversity!

This last 6 months we teamed up with Martin Hill-Wilson of Brainfood Consulting and Angella Hill-Wilson of Bridgehouse Consulting to bring a series of events to our network on EDI/DEI, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

If you would like to know more and help your business shift the dial on diversity, hire more diverse talent and leaders, to stop losing your diverse talent, understand the difference between equality and equity, help develop good foundations and practices, then do get in touch.

In this short 40 second clip, hear from Angella on why laying out a description of Diversity matters to your business and folk.