In this week’s podcast, Leila McKenzie-Delis, CEO and Founder of DIAL Global speaks to Raj Verma, Chief Diversity, Culture+ Ex Officer for Sanofi.

"One of the reasons why I put together the function that I lead today around diversity, culture and experience is because they are the reasons people join and they are the reasons people leave an organization."

You'll hear about:

- Raj's personal and professional story including his childhood moving from a predominantly brown and black neighbourhood to being a minority in his class, his educational background, and his career journey in DIBE starting from his first role in Dagenham, UK

- Why DIBE is so important within an organisation, and why having great people within your organisation is important

- The importance of putting the individual at the centre of transformation strategy, designing things for them and with them

-  The 80/20 rule in creating culture, employee experience being a multi-way relationship and why people stay at an organisation

- The relationship between D&I, ESG and HR

- How Employee Resource Groups at Sanofi have evolved

- Raj's experiences of working in cross-cultural environments including cultural awareness training, building psychological safety into conversations  with people from different cultures, the need to check bias

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