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From Biased to Best Practice with Inclusive Hiring
When you’re looking to make an inclusive hire, and indeed the best possible hire, your secret weapon is evidence.
Learn why building your hiring process around evidence-based decisions makes life easier for your hiring managers and more equitable for your candidates.
What’s in a Name? Tackling the Persistent Issue of Bias in Recruitment
Bias towards names and ethnicities are still responsible for negative hiring experiences in 2025.
This article uncovers how your organisation can stamp out bias in your recruitment so that diverse talent can shine, not be shut out.
Keep Calm and Carry On: Taking a Measured Approach to What We Know So Far About the Supreme Court Ruling
A clarification to one small part of the law has quickly ballooned in many places into a justification for bigotry and transphobia under the guise of legal compliance.
Explore how your organisation can maintain an inclusive culture that empowers your people, whilst advocating for dignity and respect for everyone, regardless of their gender.
Inclusive Hiring Practices: Navigating the Law in the UK
It’s our mission to change the recruitment status quo with the power of inclusive hiring, but we can’t throw out the entire rule book. Recruitment needs to remain legally compliant, so let’s explore positive action, positive discrimination and affirmative action.
Creating a neuroinclusive workplace beyond Autism Awareness Month
A neuroinclusive workplace is one that has the systems in place to support its neurodivergent individuals through its policies, processes, training and beyond.
This article outlines five key areas of focus that will support everyone better, not just your neurodivergent people!
Making meaningful progress on the Gender Pay Gap
Simply addressing the gender pay gap as a female issue, or taking a one-dimensional approach to tackling gender issues, will only solve a small proportion of the problem.
We unpack how a successful approach to tackling the gender pay gap in 2025 must be a holistic one.
Five signs inclusion is taking a backseat for leaders in your organisation
When inclusion is not at the forefront of your leadership strategy, your organisational culture and employee engagement can suffer the consequences.
We’ve outlined our five telltale signs that you could be heading in the wrong direction, and the proactive steps to take to reaffirm the importance of an inclusive workplace, ensuring that every team member feels valued and heard.
Why do we need to include DEI in leadership programmes?
Many companies send their top executives on expensive leadership programmes only for their employee engagement surveys to show high levels of dissatisfaction, which leads to more programmes and the vicious cycle continues. What are the benefits of also including DEI in these programmes?
The cost of underrepresentation & what you can do to change it
As a result of the cultural and structural impact of racism, Black voices and representation have been diminished, cut out and disempowered, leading to history missing the incredible contribution, impact and effects of Black people worldwide.
This article investigates the cost to workplaces and society as a whole, and what we can do to counter it.
Celebrating Black History Month: a journey through time and its significance
Black History Month (BHM) in the UK is celebrated every October and is a time to honour the contributions of Black people to British culture and society.
We explore its history and its significance in the workplace.
What you permit, you promote: does your organisation’s culture enable sexual harassment?
In October, changing legislation means employers will have an increased duty of care towards employees to better prevent sexual harassment. In a society where women in particular already face sexual harassment online, on the streets and even in their own homes, it’s vital that the workplace is not another addition to that list.
Bullying or banter? When the fun stops, stop
There's a fine line between harmless banter and harmful bullying, yet the impact on your workplace culture can be vast.
We explore the distinctions and effective actions to ensure a psychologically safe, inclusive culture for all.
Unlocking leadership potential: Measuring the impact of culture and DEI interventions
One leadership intervention alone will not build a new culture, so what do we need to do to embed culture change?
Having worked with more than 2,000 leaders in 2023 alone, our director shares her reflections on impactful do’s and don’ts for leaders.
The key to significant DEI results? Consistency!
From June's Virtual Diversity Forum, this was the number one takeaway when thinking about an Inclusive Hiring process. Our fantastic guests Faye Kennedy, Mark Lomas, Chartered FCIPD and Pauline Miller (Chartered, FCIPD) shared their insights on what has truly been important for embedding Inclusive Hiring as a sustainable practice in their organisations.
What is rainbow washing?
During national campaigns that celebrate LGBTQ+ inclusion or campaign for equality within society, we often see organisations swapping to a rainbow-coloured version of their logo and rolling out positive campaigns.
When these marketing practices don’t reflect your values or commercial practices, you risk alienating the very communities you claim to support.
Cultural transformation through a DEI lens
In June 2024 we hosted an intimate forum in Newcastle on the topic of cultural transformation, in partnership with Sharon MacArthur - Menopause in the Workplace and Recite Me. Read on for our top tips and takeaways from the day.
Is your organisation ready for the Worker Protection Act?
From October 2024, as an employer you will have a legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of your employees in the workplace.
Read on for how we can help.
Five Steps to Supercharge Your HR Capability
To get the very best out of your HR team - for your organisation as well as themselves - we reveal our crucial areas to focus on.
Balancing Policy and Culture: Creating Psychological Safety and Embedding Respect in the Workplace
When it comes to psychological safety in the workplace, knowing that non-inclusive behaviours will be challenged is paramount. A whopping 89% of employee respondents to one survey* said they believe that psychological safety in the workplace is essential. And that’s no surprise; it underpins everything from wellbeing and mental health to physical health and safety, as well as having a huge impact on how valued your employees feel.
Why is psychological safety vital for DEI data collection?
Just like any other business strategy, impactful DEI initiatives are based on quality data.
And just like any other type of data-driven decision-making, DEI data has its own set of challenges. In our experience, the number one challenge our clients face are disclosure rates. Read on to learn the reasons why, and how to overcome them.
Case Studies
Clear Assured and Chaucer Group
“Clear Assured set a very high bar and to be recognised with Gold status shows our hard work is bearing fruit. It’s given us confidence that our initiatives really are making a difference.” - Richard Milner, CEO
Leading reinsurance group, Chaucer, attained Clear Assured Gold accreditation in 2024.