The Turnbull government empowered by an angry backbench has rejected a Human Rights Commission-led campaign for racial and cultural diversity targets to be pushed on corporate Australia. The commission’s July 2016 reform blueprint, Leading for Change,recommended that organisations consider “sending signals on cultural diversity” by collecting data on the cultural backgrounds of employees in addition…
As an entrepreneur, Ms Liu founded The Dream Collective in 2012 because she was confronted by the lack of leadership development opportunities for young women in the workplace. She says Australian corporate leaders are doing it wrong, and need to get better at “walking the talk”. Research shows that for every $10 invested into senior…
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Click To Watch Video Oscar contender Mark Ruffalo announced on Twitter that he will be going to the Academy Awards ceremony after saying earlier he was considering skipping the event over lack of diversity among the nominees. Ruffalo, who is white, is a best supporting actor nominee for playing an investigative journalist in Catholic Church…
At some point we will all have to start asking this question. At the AHRI Diversity and Inclusion Conference we have seen a the discussion still focus on legacy items where we still silo Gender Diversity as a ‘Women Can” program. Can we not start knocking down this barrier and understand that its Gender we…
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Great presentation on flipping the perception on Able versus Disabled Wrong or right …. We still have to make the decisions about how the world functions as the work age ratio changes and we have less working people to support the non working, unemployable or disabled portions of our population. As we ponder productivity…
Is humour the Best approach to fighting the lack of Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace?
Former chief executive of BP and author of The Glass Closet, John Browne, has called on companies to disclose how many lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people they employ, as he outlined why businesses must double their efforts to create more inclusive organisations. Speaking with WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell at an Ogilvy-hosted event last…