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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.

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

Being an ally means you are tuned into the lived experiences of people who are different from you. If you are white, that means black and brown and minority people. If you are a man, it means women, if heterosexual it means those who are not, and so forth and so on. What does that mean in reality? It means you must always have your antenna up and be ready and prepared to: ​Engage Listen Empathise Observe Acknowledge Challenge Educate Learn Engage Be

Allyship is a committment to a cause that does not affect one. After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, “allyship” was in vogue. But I noticed one concerning trend. It appeared the concept of allyship became associated with a specific group of people. In most cases people who outwardly sought to or declared themselves allies were mostly, if not exclusively, liberal and white. But that was my observation based solely on my examination of what I saw around me, in my personal

What can go wrong with allyship, even for well-meaning allies.

How to become a better ally in 8 easy steps

Microaggressions: What they are and how to deal with them at individual level