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CEO of Dignii - Elisabeth Cooke: Addressing Diversity and Employee Engagement


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Elisabeth Cooke is the CEO of Dignii, a tech company that has created the software to measure diversity and improve inclusion in the workplace. 

In this episode:

  • We cover Elisabeth's journey into Law and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Space
  • Some surprising insights into Employee Engagement and how its related to Diversity in the workplace
  • Interesting shifts in engagement as companies moved to Work From Home
  • The difference between mentorship and sponsorship
  • Challenges of building a bootstrapped company
  • Elisabeth shared some fascinating stats on how the shift to work from home during the pandemic, actually increased employee engagement for certain demographics such as: people of colour, people with physical disabilities and women.

    Important takeaways for me were: 

    "DEI is not an end goal, it’s an ever evolving journey."  

    "Employees would rather see leaders “trying” to implement new DEI practices, even if they don’t work, then not at all." 


    You can check out the amazing work Elisabeth is doing at: https://dignii.com/


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