Inclusive Employers Workplace harassment isn’t just a legal risk – it’s a barrier to creating cultures where your people feel safe, valued, and able to do their best work. With expert consultancy that goes beyond incident response, we help organisations build environments that prevent harassment whilst fostering genuine inclusion.
Create workplaces where harassment is prevented, not just addressed – where psychological safety enables peak performance and inclusive cultures drive business success.
Our workplace harassment consultancy services
We provide comprehensive harassment consultancy tailored to your organisation’s specific challenges and context. Our proven expertise enables us to address the cultural issues that matter most to your people and your business. When consulting on Workplace Harassment we can do this in the following ways:
Prevention and capability building
What we deliver:
- Comprehensive policy and procedure reviews ensuring compliance and best practice
- Harassment support group establishment with ongoing guidance
- Targeted training programmes for managers and teams building prevention skills
- Prevention system frameworks that embed protection into daily operations
Why this matters
Robust prevention systems reduce incidents before they occur, protecting your people whilst minimising legal and reputational risks. Well-trained teams create inclusive environments where everyone can thrive.
Leadership development and accountability
What we deliver:
- Executive coaching building confidence to address harassment decisively
- Leadership accountability frameworks ensuring consistent responses
- Senior team capability development in creating psychologically safe environments
- Strategic guidance on leading cultural transformation from the top
Why this matters
When leaders model inclusive behaviour and respond decisively to harassment, it sets the standard for the entire organisation. Strong leadership accountability prevents harassment whilst building trust and engagement across all levels.
The reality of workplace harassment
- High-profile tribunal awards: A recent employment tribunal awarded over £350,000 in compensation to an employee who suffered sexual harassment and subsequent victimisation, including £40,000 for injury to feelings and £10,000 for psychiatric injury (Hill Dickinson, 2024).
- Business costs beyond compensation: The UK government estimates that the average cost of a sexual harassment tribunal claim can range from £27,000 to £45,000 but is often much higher, with additional costs of £13,000 per case for time spent managing claims (Culture Shift analysis of UK Government data, 2025).
- Disability harassment costs: Employment tribunals have awarded some of the largest compensation amounts on record for disability harassment cases, with one recent award reaching almost £4.6 million for disability discrimination and harassment – demonstrating the severe financial consequences organisations face when failing to protect disabled employees (Blake Morgan, 2024).
- Rising racial discrimination claims: Race discrimination claims have risen significantly, with 52 successful claims awarded compensation in the most recent period – up from just 22 successful claimants in 2018, indicating growing awareness and willingness to challenge racial harassment in the workplace (Wright Hassall analysis of UK Government tribunal data, 2024).
Workplace harassment consultancy: The legal and business reality
Harassment is behaviour that makes someone feel intimidated, violates their dignity or creates a hostile, humiliating or offensive environment. Harassment is unlawful under the Equality Act 2010 and can include unfair treatment, picking on or regularly undermining someone and talking about people behind their backs. The impact of harassment at work can be profoundly damaging to the individual, the team and the overall performance of the business. When organisations face tribunal action there is no ceiling on pay-outs for successful cases relating to a protected characteristic, and cases often receive negative press attention.
Member’s resource
Inclusive Employers members can download our practical guide covering how to handle harassment reports, prevent incidents through inclusive environments, and access specialist support resources.
Build workplaces where harassment is prevented, not just addressed
Our workplace harassment prevention consultancy doesn’t just help you manage incidents – it transforms your culture to create psychologically safe environments where everyone can thrive. With expert support across investigation, prevention, and cultural change, we help you build the robust systems and inclusive cultures that make harassment unthinkable.
Transform your workplace culture with expert workplace harassment consultancy. Contact us today to discuss your specific needs.