# diversity
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49:34Workplace Surgery: Inclusive hiring and supporting candidates from disadvantaged backgroundsLeanne Elliott: The first thing I'd say is good for you thinking about hiring candidates from backgrounds that are disadvantaged in various ways and giving people a chance. I quote this all the time, but Adam Grant in hiEP 320 · 21 Jul 2026·workplace surgery· 49:34–55:1835:48Truth or Lie: Do diverse teams perform better?Al Elliott: I'll cut that out. Keep that in. Welcome back to Truth or Lies, that time of the week where we take a popular workplace idea and ask if the research actually backs it up. Leanne Elliott: And this week I get aEP 300 · 12 May 2026·truth or lie· 35:48–53:3247:39The 'Hiring Like Me' TrapAlexis Zahner: No notes. Al Elliott: Thank you so much. No notes. Okay, so onto question number 3. It's about hiring, whether you're hiring wrong or not. When I started my business, I hired people just like me. I'm sure EP 292 · 14 Apr 2026·news roundup· 47:39–52:5853:23Workplace Surgery — disappearing EDI valuesLeanne Elliott: Let Jake go first. No, let Jake go first Al Elliott: Jake Jake Tuber: I have often asked people to consider whether or not their company's values are just wall art. In other words, are they just the thingEP 290 · 7 Apr 2026·workplace surgery· 53:23–59:0616:40Story 3: Mattel launches its first autistic BarbieLeanne Elliott: Yeah Al Elliott: Moving on Leanne Elliott: You go gooseEP 266 · 13 Jan 2026·news roundup· 16:40–24:2130:13Prediction 5 — The death of assimilation (Sonia Thompson)Al Elliott: Yes. So let's hear from Sonia Thompson, who's the host of the Frictionless Marketing podcast and an inclusive growth and customer experience strategist Leanne Elliott: Sonia spends her time helping brands undEP 263 · 1 Jan 2026·other· 30:13–36:0041:14What younger workers bring to the tableAl Elliott: People who are younger might feel they don't have anything to, to contribute, but I think they do. They have so much. I mean, is there a message you can give to someone out there who might be feeling the sameEP 235 · 25 Sept 2025·interview· 41:14–43:0017:23Making fun inclusiveAl Elliott: Yeah Joel Zeff: But, you know, I think people are genuinely good. That's, I, that's just my philosophy on life is that people are genuinely good and overall good. And, you know, you hopefully made the right hEP 225 · 21 Aug 2025·interview· 17:23–20:5215:51Why Pride Month Feels Different This YearLeanne Elliott: Do you know what? It's more what I haven't really seen. Um, it's Pride Month, June. I don't know about you, but it feels a bit different this year. It feels like everything's been a bit quieter. I've not EP 206 · 17 Jun 2025·news roundup· 15:51–21:4514:58Story 3: Fortnum & Mason's diversity failLeanne Elliott: Well, going from one blunder to another, Fortnum Mason. I know, I know that maybe you have shopped there, actually. You're quite posh, Al. Shopped at Fortnum Mason? Al Elliott: No. Waitrose is about the hEP 146 · 19 Nov 2024·news roundup· 14:58–18:5233:27Workplace Surgery: Managing political discussions in a diverse workplaceAl Elliott: I love it. Okay. Right. We've got the 3rd question here, which is very similar to the article you mentioned earlier. And we have to— we had to feature this today because for obvious reasons. I manage a team oEP 142 · 5 Nov 2024·workplace surgery· 33:27–39:4123:05Diversity and inclusion: how far have we really come?Leanne Elliott: Annabelle is a young female professional in what might be seen as a traditionally male-dominated industry. We had to ask her if she had felt any kind of discrimination at work. No, I don't think so. I've EP 141 · 31 Oct 2024·other· 23:05–23:4018:58Hot Take: Sonia Thompson on inclusion vs. assimilationLeanne Elliott: Welcome back to our brand new segment, this week's Hot Take, where we uncover the truth and lies of work with the help of thought leaders and influencers. We are asking them for their boldest insights, thEP 134 · 8 Oct 2024·hot take· 18:58–31:4511:18Story 3: The Diversity Hiring BacklashLeanne Elliott: I did. I came across a study about diversity in hiring practices, and I thought it was really interesting and kind of worrying. There might be a theme to my stories this week. Maybe I'm in a funny kind ofEP 132 · 1 Oct 2024·news roundup· 11:18–15:4111:00Pride Month and financial well-beingLeanne Elliott: Well, we are in week 3 of Pride Month now, and there has been a flow of so many wonderful organisationals and individuals spreading awareness about the challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community. And one thEP 107 · 18 Jun 2024·news roundup· 11:00–15:321:48Pride Month in the workplaceAl Elliott: Okay, Lee, so what have you seen this week? Leanne Elliott: It is Pride Month. Happy Pride to all of our LGBTQ+ listeners, friends, family, colleagues. Happy, happy Pride. Pride Month, it's such an important EP 103 · 4 Jun 2024·news roundup· 1:48–7:2923:09Tip 5: Inclusion Requires Intention (Catherine Garrod)Al Elliott: So inclusion for me is the important word. Whether you use EDI or D&I or whatever, inclusion is the important word. So inclusion is, you know, as human beings, I think it's universal, right? We want to be valEP 102 · 30 May 2024·other· 23:09–27:5024:55Workplace Surgery: Diversity in rural areasAl Elliott: Have you? Leanne Elliott: Yeah, I've got one for you Al Elliott: Okay. All right. Well, here we go. And this, we've been talking about Sonia Tunson from Inclusion and Marketing. This is probably more of a queEP 101 · 28 May 2024·workplace surgery· 24:55–30:4632:33Financial well-being and diversityLeanne Elliott: We've talked about financial well-being back in episode 55 with Professor Sir Kerry Cooper. And then again in episodes 71 and 72 with Ruth Hancock, the CEO of Octopus Money. But when your salary is on papEP 91 · 18 Apr 2024·interview· 32:33–35:1422:32Diversity and inclusion: the target is mediocrityJohn Amaechi OBE: There's many people who think, and I hope you haven't had to deal with any on your show, but there's many people who think that this whole thing about gender equity has gone a bit far, hasn't it? I meanEP 82 · 14 Mar 2024·interview· 22:32–26:5725:53Why D&I needs to reach the 95% who don't careSophie Wood: It was East Midlands Regional Group of Forces. I was there speaking about my journey, and I like a bit of audience participation, so I threw it out and said, why are you here today? And a police officer at tEP 77 · 8 Feb 2024·panel interview· 25:53–27:3631:19Belonging Base's approach — beyond the 'painting by numbers' D&Imidroll (Phil Agnew, Nudge): And 2 out of 3 of us are devilishly good-looking Al Elliott: And you're not gonna say which. Phil, host of No UK's number one marketing podcast. It's brought to you— we need to do this in thrEP 77 · 8 Feb 2024·panel interview· 31:19–34:3634:37Advice for startups entering the D&I spaceSophie Wood: One of the things I would say, if I was kind of, if I want to see a new startup coming into the marketplace and they set aside money, they think, yeah, let's do some DE&I work, then I would urge them not to EP 77 · 8 Feb 2024·panel interview· 34:37–35:0923:26Prediction 6: Social Mobility and DiversityLeanne Elliott: When I was researching Ruth before our chat, I noticed that she talked a lot about social mobility and the impact this has on diversity. And the more I looked into this and thought about the implications EP 72 · 4 Jan 2024·interview· 23:26–29:5818:15Priority 2 — Create inclusive workplacesLeanne Elliott: So our second priority, if you were, if you would, if you were a snowflake hater that was triggered by mental health, then strap in, friend, because priority number 2 is to create inclusive workplaces. InEP 63 · 2 Nov 2023·other· 18:15–27:1815:34Trend 1 — Allyship in actionAl Elliott: Well said, Leanne. Well said. So the trends that we're talking about In this particular episode, we, I told you there was gonna be 6 of them. They are gonna be allyship. We're gonna talk about workplace traumEP 61 · 19 Oct 2023·other· 15:34–21:1718:06What does Kanarys actually do?Leanne Elliott: Is there? Yeah, there's a place for them, sure. But I think it's recognizing their constraints and their limitations, as you, as you said. I think the key thing is if you collect any kind of type of data EP 53 · 24 Aug 2023·interview· 18:06–23:1823:32Diversity without inclusion is a revolving doorMandy Price: Because what we'll see is some workplaces that really focus on diversity, Again, because that is the easiest to measure. And so they will want to ensure that there's different faces, different demographics wEP 53 · 24 Aug 2023·interview· 23:32–27:4944:55Clip 11 — EDI 101 for Leaders: positive discriminationAl Elliott: So that was episode 45, EDI 101 for Leaders Leanne Elliott: So I picked that clip on positive discrimination because Al and I, believe it or not, we do actually do some research into what people want to hear.EP 52 · 17 Aug 2023·other· 44:55–45:2451:14Rethinking recruiting practices for diversitymidroll (Phil Agnew, Nudge): Keep that in Lauren: One of the things that we did, I would say in maybe early 2021, is take a look at our recruiting practices. And I would say that has been an unspoken and spoken focus of EP 46 · 5 Jul 2023·panel interview· 51:14–55:1516:22The bikes picture and lived experienceSonia Thompson: Lived experience means, um, it's more so about your— what's happened in your life that, um, you can bring to the table. So as a Black woman, I have experiences as a Black woman that you won't have as a whEP 45 · 28 Jun 2023·panel interview· 16:22–18:3533:59Fish where the fish are — recruiting for diversity, legallyAl Elliott: Exactly, like Sonia says, fish where the fish are. So, if you're regular listeners, you'll know that we like a bit of a joke here. We have a bit of banter, you and me. Probably, probably goes on the, you knowEP 45 · 28 Jun 2023·panel interview· 33:59–37:1642:47Lesson 3: The power of diverse perspectivesLeanne Elliott: Intention, commitment, follow-through, enforcement. People and culture takes work. You have a culture whether you know it or not. That, that is not intentional, that just exists. But in terms of shaping aEP 38 · 10 May 2023·interview· 42:47–48:5553:11Being the only woman in the roomAl Elliott: I don't know what— if you're at this chapter yet where I do talk about You know, only being one woman in the room, one woman at the table, a sense of competition. I will be completely honest and transparent. EP 32 · 29 Mar 2023·other· 53:11–55:3831:41Can anyone be a coach or mentor? (Age, perspective, and diversity)Al Elliott: So, so far, we've had one difference between coaching and mentoring, that is advice, that mentors give advice and coaches don't necessarily, and 2 similarities in that you need to have a great relationship AnEP 29 · 8 Mar 2023·panel interview· 31:41–37:0221:18Prediction 11: Diversity and inclusion: the next chapterLeanne Elliott: We are. And my prediction, uh, my number 11, um, is diversity and inclusion, uh, will continue to be a very important topic of conversation within businesses. Um, but I think again that, that focus is gonEP 19 · 4 Jan 2023·other· 21:18–32:00
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