National Inclusion Week

Intersectionality explores the interconnected nature of social categorisations—such as race, class, and gender—and how these overlapping identities contribute to shaping opportunities and challenges someone has in life. We will explore this and more in this highly interactive and informative session, including contributions from industry thought leaders

Over the next five years, we anticipate heightened scrutiny of business data, activities, and impacts related to inclusion and diversity for UK businesses. Our ‘Inclusion manifesto: the tipping point in business accountability’ report outlined key shifts that will happen to the UK I&D landscape, and Impact is at the core of it all.

This session will explore more about how to collect and use diversity data to measure and understand the impact and return on investment of inclusion. Along with how to use the learning from this to further grow and develop along your inclusion journey.

Join us as we launch our National Inclusion Week activity.  

Together with representatives from IE member organisations we will explore what it means to have impact and create long term cultural change – for ourselves as inclusion professionals, for our organisations and for our customers and stakeholders.

Join us for the final event of National Inclusion Week 2023 for an opportunity to witness innovation, spark ideas and Take Action Make Impact.

Hear from organisations share their insight and best practice around key areas of Workplace Inclusion.

This event will also be an opportunity to celebrate the successes of our CMI qualified students and Accredited Inclusive Employer Standard organisations from the last 12 months.

This session will provide tools and techniques for individuals working or wishing to work in multicultural environments to better succeed at understanding and interacting in culturally diverse settings, wherever you operate. We will explore how culture influences behaviours and interactions, and shapes how we may interpret and navigate situations at work and beyond. Cultural awareness helps unleash organisational diversity and inclusion, foster good relations with colleagues as well as customers and partners – which is why you shouldn’t miss this webinar!

If you work in the Inclusion and Diversity space, you are probably aware of how easy it is to burn out in this line of work. Whether its due to budget constraints, lack of buy in from leadership, lack of capacity and resources, giving too much of yourself or all of these things and more, it can be all too easy to suddenly find yourself burned out and struggling with your mental health.

In this sector, we need to be really mindful to set boundaries and self care. As the old saying goes ‘you can’t pour from an empty cup’. We can only make change and impact for others when we are taking care of ourselves first. This means that we can’t always get all the things we want done at once, or taking smaller steps to achieve bigger goals, and that’s okay.

Many organisations struggle with having a diverse and proportional representation in their workforce, despite having the best intentions. Why is this the case? There are many barriers which marginalised people face when seeking employment, so if your aim is to have a truly diverse and inclusive workplace, start at the beginning. Make your application process accessible, signal that your organisation is a safe space, show up through your business practices and policies and remove barriers from the interview process. These are all ways you can ensure you are recruiting inclusively.

Progress in society and the workplace will always come up against some resistance. Those in a position of privilege and power, knowingly or unknowingly, often struggle to give up some of that privilege and power to make space for others.

The term ‘woke’, originating in the Black community in the US meaning to be aware of the oppression that Black people experience in the US, has been mischaracterised as ‘going too far’ or ‘creating something out of nothing’ to give credibility to resisting change and to distract from real issues.

So, how do we challenge this in our organisations, and how do we get buy in from senior leadership who might not consider I&D work a priority?

Join us for the webinar to discuss this topic further and garner some helpful tips to accelerating change in your workplace.