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Kristen Gyorgak
Apr 25, 2022
3 work lessons from a kids book
One of my best friends recently recommended a book she thought Aunt Kristen (my favourite identity) might be interested in: What are...
Dinah Vincent
Apr 14, 2022
Disordered thinking? Or diverse thinking?
This is part of our series on biases in the workplace. A full list of bias blog posts can be found at the bottom of this blog or here: If...
Dinah Vincent
Mar 8, 2022
A question for men on women's day
Tuesday 8 March is International Women's Day (IWD). The official website for 2022 invites readers to: imagine a gender equal world. A...
Dinah Vincent
Aug 20, 2021
Be first or be forgotten: the power of the primacy effect
This is part of our series on biases in the workplace. A full list of bias blog posts can be found here: If you're biased and you know it...
Dinah Vincent
Mar 22, 2021
Create an inclusive environment
Diversity and inclusion is an obligatory topic in leadership courses now. Sometimes it's the primary focus of a workshop. Sometimes it's...
Dinah Vincent
Mar 15, 2021
Levelling the field for psychological safety
I entered 'psychological safety' into the search field on You Tube last week. Not a cry for help, just part of my ongoing inquiry into...
Dinah Vincent
Sep 29, 2020
The necessity of discomfort
Diversity and inclusion are on the agenda for organisations worldwide. The driver is for more fair and equitable outcomes. Or is it? The...
Dinah Vincent
Sep 1, 2020
Tick box past unconscious bias
Is this possible? The question came up during our August 2020 presentation about our brains and bias. The answer: possibly not, but the...
Kristen Gyorgak
Jun 9, 2020
Our most powerful weapon
Thomas Paine, a 1700s political activist in the US, famously said, the pen is mightier than the sword. That’s because words change the...
Kristen Gyorgak
May 18, 2020
Our Friday quizzes
A few weeks back we decided to up our quiz game. Not content with simply ploughing through the Stuff quizzes, we decided that on Fridays...
Kristen Gyorgak
May 8, 2020
The 5G conversation we should be having
For the past few months, conspiracy theories have been running wild about what 5G networks are and aren't doing (newsflash: they do not...
Hilary Bryan
Apr 1, 2019
Women's leadership – one step forward and one step back
Over the years, we’ve kept an eye on Grant Thornton’s research on women and leadership and found it useful. Its 2018 report: Women in...
Hilary Bryan
Aug 27, 2018
Diversity checklist
What makes people feel comfortable to be who they are at work? It’s far more likely to be emotion, rather than logic. After all, who’d...
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