While return-to-office mandate are often framed in terms of productivity and collaboration, they have real impact on culture and inclusion. They may even pose a discrimination legal risk.

Why celebrating and recognising your people can do more for your culture than any training or team-building exercise.

An article about the real impact of AI in hiring - the good, the bad, and potential legal jeopardy for employers.

This year’s International Non-Binary People's Day arrives at a moment when the legal ground beneath non-binary people has shifted considerably in the UK, and the gap between what employers can do and what the law requires has rarely mattered more.

Automated accessibility scanners catch only a fraction of real issues. Here's what they miss, why it matters for EAA compliance, and a free toolkit to test properly.

The EAA is now being enforced. A quick, simplified look at what it means, who it affects, and how to find out where your organisation stands. There's a particular kind of quiet that follows a big compliance deadline. The date passes, nothing dramatic happens on the day itself, and it's tempting to assume all is and will be fine. That has been the case with the European Accessibility Act (EAA). The Act became enforceable across all 27 EU member states in June 2025, and enforce

Make Psychological Safety real. It's not about creating a "nice" environment nor is it a licence for a "anything goes" culture.

Comply with the European Accessility Act (EAA) and grow your business and profits from inclusion.

Your inclusion dashboard is green, yet your best people are quietly updating their CVs. Both can be true at the same time. A quiet finding from The Conference Board this year deserves more attention than it's getting: executives are considerably more optimistic about the impact of their inclusion efforts than their own employees are. And many programmes, the research notes, fall short of their intended goals. That gap between the view from the boardroom and the lived experien

Engagement just hit a five-year low, and no region of the world improved. The fix isn't another initiative — it's the person your people report to. Gallup's 2026 figures should stop every leadership team in its tracks: global employee engagement has fallen to 20% — the lowest since 2020 — costing an estimated $10 trillion in lost productivity. In the five years, no region of the world has improved. We keep treating this as a motivation problem. It's not. Instead, it's a conn

While in the US companies have pulled DEI off their websites, the UK has largely further entrenched it into law, but with notable setbacks. The most misread story in our field is the "mass roll back and collapse" of DEI in the US and, some assume, in the UK. But when you look closely, and two countries are heading in almost opposite directions. In the US, the currently administration declared war on DEI and the retreat has been loud. References to "DEI" fell by around 98% acr

The term "white privilege" continues to be a lightning rod. A while back, I wrote an article about how the term had been weaponised and suggested it might be time to ditch it. A few years on, we are still having the same conversations. Recently, I listened to two people who often speak eloquently on issues of race – celebrated South African comedian and host Travor Noah and Femi Oluwole, a British political activist, journalist and co-founder of the pro-European Union advocac

DEI is under attack and yet its core principles and aims have never been more important.

Is there a widespread “pushback” against DEI or have some sections of the media decided to make this an issue and give voice to the few naysayers and doubters? On January 11th, the BBC posted an article on their home page with a catchy headline: “ Is a DEI Backlash Brewing”. On clicking the headline, I was taken to an article by Elizabeth Bennett entitled: US Business Leaders Are Pushing Back against Years of Corporate Diversity Efforts. As per the headline question – is a DE

The phrase "diversity of opinion" is to DEI work what #AllLivesMatter is to #BlackLivesMatter, a seemingly benign but extremely harmful attempt to obfuscate, devalue, and derail meaningful diversity efforts. It has no place in serious DEI Work. As a DEI consultant and lead, I cannot tell you how many times I have heard the phrase “Diversity of Opinion” being thrown around. In my opinion, the term is a lousy, clumsy, ridiculous excuse for justifying having more white men in th

Introduction In June 2023, the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket released report entitled Holding Up A Mirror to Cricket. The report was through and extensive and unforgiving for the England Cricket Board (ECB). The report found in ECB an organisation bedevilled with widespread racism, classism, and sexism. The report put forward forty recommendations for the ECB to clean up bias and discrimination. In this review, I will only focus on the recommendations on Approa

Human civilisation and society have always operated on the presumption, promise and ideal of fairness. That is why we have political ideologies like socialism, communism, and even capitalism. That’s why we have legal systems, social welfare systems, a national health service, etcetera. And we require fairness in the way the media covers stories. So, when the Titan, a seemingly improvised sub carrying five wealthy people, went missing in the middle of the Atlantic ocean and th

Negative feedback can be daunting to give and to receive. But there are ways to make the experience less traumatic for both parties. Negative feedback can be daunting for both the receiver and the giver. But there are ways to make the experience less traumatic and more constructive. First, we'll look at the basics of giving negative feedback constructively and them move on to the basics of recieving and dealing with it if you find yourself on the receiving end. Giving negat

Imagine you come home to find an abandoned baby on your doorstep. Suddenly, the baby is your responsibility regardless of who left it there or why. You should treat everything in life like a baby on the doorstep. Even if think it’s someone else’s fault, it’s always your responsibility to do something about whatever situation you find yourself in. To illustrate a point about taking responsibility for your life, Mark Manson, in his book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k, giv

Men, we have a problem. Violence against women. And we are the problem, the cause. This violence is not a women's issue; it's our issue. We must lead the way in fixing it! In the days following the discovery of Sarah Everard's body in 2021, one BBC headline read: Sarah Everard: How a woman’s death sparked a nation’s soul-searching. Many news outlets ran similar headlines about how the murder of the 33-year-old woman in London had sparked a national conversation about women’s