What's next for inclusive leadership? - Diversity and Inclusion Leaders

Discussion points:

What’s next for inclusive leadership?
The topic of inclusive leadership has been a mainstay on DE&I conversations for the last decade as organisations seek to skill up their leaders on DE&I issues. But what actually is inclusive leadership in practice? How does inclusive leadership help to drive lasting change? What are the limits of taking an inclusive leadership approach? Have we got the balance right between leadership up-skilling and management development? In this session our panel will explore a number of key themes including:

What is inclusive leadership in practice?
Inclusive leadership in the context of corporate norms and social conversations
Aligning inclusive leadership to ESG and corporate activism
Driving action – nudges that lead to actual behaviour change
Keeping up the motivation and creating psychological safety for corporate leadership

Timings:

7 June – 11.05am to 11.55am BST

Speakers:

Dan Robertson, Director, VERCIDA Consulting

Jenn Barnett, People & Culture Director, Head of ESG & EDI, Grant Thornton

Mark Lomas, Head of Culture, Lloyd’s

More about our speakers

Dan Robertson, Director, VERCIDA Consulting
Widely regarded as a global expert on workplace diversity and inclusive leadership, Dan is the Director of VERCIDA Consulting. Dan has a particular expertise in the science and application of unconscious bias, leadership decision-making and behavioural science. He spends his days supporting executives to turn diversity theory into meaningful actions through the application of global best practice. He has over 20 years’ experience of supporting global businesses, having worked extensively across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North America.
– Dan is Chair of the Lord Mayor of London’s Power of Inclusion programme (London).
– In 2019 and 2020 he was named by Hive Learning as a top 50 D&I leader for his work globally and locally
His publications include:
– The Long Road to Inclusivity: Published in Beyond 2015, Shaping the Future of Equality, Human Rights and Social Justice. A Collection of Essays: Equality & Diversity Research Network. 2015.
– He is a contributor to the 3rd edition of the Inclusion Nudges Guidebook. (2020)
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Jenn Barnett, People & Culture Director, Head of ESG & EDI, Grant Thornton
Jenn is a culture change and EDI specialist and psychologist and UK Lead for ESG and EDI for the fifth largest professional services firm; Grant Thornton UK LLP. She is responsible for designing and leading the firm’s distinctive ESG strategy. Her team are focused on reducing the firm’s environmental impact, creating an inclusive culture that prioritises wellbeing and improves community impact. Jenn is addressing this through robust governance and measure, chairing diversity and sustainability boards, respectfully challenging board behaviour and business decisions, innovative policy change, and utilising technology to remove barriers in the operating model. Prior to this role; Jenn was People Experience Director, where she shaped the employee value proposition and influenced senior leaders to change behaviour to improve the people experience. Jenn has expertise in psychological culture change, and is an executive coaching and leadership specialist. Prior to Grant Thornton, she worked in senior roles with The Co-operative Group, BAE Systems and BAA at Heathrow, where she led the transformation of people behaviours to improve customer service in preparation for the Olympic Games in 2012.
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Mark Lomas, Head of Culture, Lloyd’s
Mark has delivered numerous diversity and inclusion projects in the UK and internationally for organisations across a wide variety of sectors. including The Financial Reporting Council, Lloyds Market Association, Bermuda Hospital Board, Groupama Insurance, The BBC, Sheffield University, NHS Clinical Commissioning Group Boards, Highways England, ITV, DR TV Denmark, The Bermuda Human Rights Commission and The Law Society. Mark is a published author on the topic of Equality and Diversity having authored the Law Society E&D Risk & Compliance Toolkit which assists law firms to comply with regulation and is the co-author of research published for Arts Council England on Goal 5: Equality & Diversity for Young People in the arts. Mark is also an executive committee member of the R.I.D.I. (Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative). In 2019 Mark won Inclusive Companies Head of Diversity of the year Award. In 2020, Mark was named in the People Magazine Top 20 D&I Powerlist.
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Organised in partnership with:

VERCIDA Consulting is a specialist inclusion management company. They provide a range of expert services including:

Training: Underpinned by research from the three inter-connecting fields of social psychology, neuroscience and behavioural science, our never off the shelf progarmmes include conscious inclusion, unconscious bias, let’s talk about race, inclusive leadership and others.
Consulting Services: Our consulting services include culture and inclusion diagnostics, developing local and global ED&I strategies and organisational policy reviews.

Making inclusive change happen.

To find out more about why D&I is so important to us, and why taking a strategic approach should be so important to you, contact us:

dan@vercidaconsulting.com
www.vercidagroup.com/consulting

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