Author: Simon Fanshawe

Dear Friends and Colleagues We hope the ‘return to work’, end of Plan B or whatever this phase of our lives is called, is going well for you and you and your colleagues are adjusting and adapting.  Last time I promised a few words on Unconscious Bias training and why there is so much about […]

Dear Friends and Colleagues, 2021 – Goodbye and good……. Well, everybody we have spoken to is pretty glad that 2021 is over! Although – not to be too Hallmark card about it – it has been amazing to watch the ingenuity, adaptability and often the sheer generosity and kindness of people during the pandemic. Long […]

In partnership with the Good Governance Institute we have developed this report as a stimulus to discussion of a new approach to diversity in the NHS. While the diversity deficits in the NHS must be tackled (and they are particularly shocking), the motivation to enhance diversity should be widened beyond compliance and tackling injustice. As […]

Turkey votes 52:48 and President (now almost for life) Erdogan claims that 4% margin as the ‘will of the people’ and a ‘mandate’ for fundamental constitutional change. Remind you of anything? Remoaners all, shut up and get with the programme, the people have spoken. And if you dare argue, even if you are a Judge, […]

Dear Clients and Colleagues  Happy 2017. Predictions these days seem wobblier and wobblier, so we won’t make any. But looking over the landscape as it is relevant to diversity, we keep coming back to one insight. The people who voted for Donald Trump or for Brexit seem to share one particular strong feeling about their […]

For those of us who care and work for diversity, 2016 will go down as a year needing a great deal of reflection. Many of us feel knocked back, sad, even depressed. Many of us feel as if the things we have spent so much of our lives campaigning and working for, which we thought […]

There is much agreement in the research, and certainly from our experience with clients, that diverse teams are what deliver the diversity dividend. The question is what creates teams that are diverse and highly motivated and performing? WHAT MAKES A TEAM HIGHLY FUNCTIONAL? In 2012-13 Google ran Project Aristotle. They looked at 180 teams from […]

The TUC and The Bar have both recently released reports about sexual harassment of women at work. Below are both reports and we’ve added a short note on a very positive and original approach to dealing with these issues, which we hope you’ll find helpful. This first report, from the TUC, suggests that “younger women […]