Ishreen talks with Nick James founder of Expert Empires about taking action in his organisation to bring more diversity 

He discusses that when people are naive and unaware of their own privilege, the conversation of privilege is ignored. This means that privilege isn’t managed and stewarded in a way that presents its importance and impacts on people.

Nick also shares the key steps he has taken and how focus and intention consistently are the keys to taking effective action

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• By facilitating those who are experts so that they were heard by my followers I was able to learn
• From zero to 25% of the workforce people of colour and from ethnic minority backgrounds is progress
• Its consistent action and a framework that we implement every day
• It’s much harder to build diversity in a larger organisation, in a smaller organisation you can implement smaller experiments
• The first step was having the intention, it being shared with the leadership team and them understanding and buying into it
• We were consciously seeking members for our team from ethnic backgrounds
• People find it a difficult conversation
• Being conscious about the aspects of your business that are visible, any images should be relatable

 

BEST MOMENTS

'I’ve learned to say that I was uncomfortable and what my concerns were around talking about privilege'

‘We started to focus and have intention on this’

‘We have a great culture and people love coming to work each day but that doesn’t happen by accident’

‘The first step was realising that there was unconscious bias in play’

 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Website: https://belongingpioneers.com/privilege-research-and-podcast

Email: [email protected]

Useful links: https://linktr.ee/BelongingPioneers

 

ABOUT THE HOSTS

Ishreen Bradley is a Strategic Pioneer who guides Professional Leaders to navigate complex situations and achieve success with clarity, confidence, and courage. Her focus is to cultivate mindsets and cultures that acknowledge valuable differences, inclusive behaviours, and authentic leadership.  She advises, consults, trains, and coaches senior leaders through her compassionate, intuitive and incisive approach - facilitating them to develop themselves and their teams towards their growth strategy. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishreenbradley/

 

Kami Nuttall is a culture at work expert, derived from 20 years of experience working with organisations, seeing how they work from a governance, risk, ways of working and people perspectives - understanding the human experience at work. And because she is committed to human development, she is building on her psychology and social anthropology background – she has trained with the Anti-Discrimination Foundation on culture, heritage, and anti-discrimination practices, and is a qualified hypnotherapist. Her purpose is to help leaders create cultures that are inclusive, and psychologically safe, that enable people to safely speak up.  She is driven to do this work because of her belief that organisations should maintain and evidence high standards of accountability towards their people and customers.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaminuttall-cultureguru-cultureauditor/

Privilege, Eruption, Culture, Diversity, inclusion, Equity, diverse, cultural, impact, power: https://privilege-eruption.com