The Element Of Inclusion

If your organisation sees AI as a threat to inclusion, the real opportunity gets missed. Here I examine why AI helps the people who need it most.

In this episode we cover:

• How AI creates absolute social mobility
• Why privilege loses its hiding places
• Why more with the same beats cutting people

If you want to go further When we work with clients we gather evidence to serve one purpose: to support or undermine a claim, an assumption or a hypothesis. It stops you building work around unexamined issues and keeps you grounded in evidence your colleagues trust. Here's our method on one page. Get it here: https://cheatsheet.elementofinclusion.com/

DEI was never a profession, it had no structural defence when the pressure came. Here I examine what went wrong.

In this episode we cover:

• Why inclusion failed every test of professionalisation
• How occupational groups collapse under political pressure
• How to professionalise your own inclusion practice

If you want to go further When we work with clients we gather evidence to serve one purpose: to support or undermine a claim, an assumption or a hypothesis. It stops you building work around unexamined issues and keeps you grounded in evidence your colleagues trust. Here's our method on one page. Get it here: https://cheatsheet.elementofinclusion.com/

If your inclusion work feels zero-sum to leadership, resistance is rational. Here I explain the economic test that eliminates it.

In this episode we cover:

• How zero-sum thinking makes resistance rational
• Why Pareto improvements eliminate the inclusion objection
• How to test your interventions against the frontier

If you want to go further When we work with clients we gather evidence to serve one purpose: to support or undermine a claim, an assumption or a hypothesis. It stops you building work around unexamined issues and keeps you grounded in evidence your colleagues trust. Here's our method on one page. Get it here: https://cheatsheet.elementofinclusion.com/

Why should you care about inclusion? Here I explain how I approach this topic in the age of AI.

In this episode we cover:

• Why people are tired of inclusion
• How we think about these issues
• Why you should make your own mind up

If you want to go further When we work with clients we gather evidence to serve one purpose: to support or undermine a claim, an assumption or a hypothesis. It stops you building work around unexamined issues and keeps you grounded in evidence your colleagues trust. Here's our method on one page. Get it here: https://cheatsheet.elementofinclusion.com/

If your professional advantage depends on skills AI can replicate, the compounding has stopped. Here I explain how AI broke the Matthew Effect.

In this episode we cover:

• How scarcity drives the Matthew Effect
• Why repeatable expertise stopped compounding
• How to audit which skills still compound

If you want to go further When we work with clients we gather evidence to serve one purpose: to support or undermine a claim, an assumption or a hypothesis. It stops you building work around unexamined issues and keeps you grounded in evidence your colleagues trust. Here's our method on one page. Get it here: https://cheatsheet.elementofinclusion.com/

If you're worried about being replaced by AI. I think it's still possible to have a fulfilling career. Here I trace the career equation I've followed for 15 years.

In this episode we cover:

• Why AI accelerates the rare skills principle
• How to spot skills losing their rarity
• How a 15-year career equation still works

If you want to go further When we work with clients we gather evidence to serve one purpose: to support or undermine a claim, an assumption or a hypothesis. It stops you building work around unexamined issues and keeps you grounded in evidence your colleagues trust. Here's our method on one page. Get it here: https://cheatsheet.elementofinclusion.com/

If you need research backed principles to make inclusion work, here I share 5 from my PhD tested in over a decade of client work.

In this episode we cover:

• How group identity decides who gets ahead
• Why trust can't live in a policy document
• Why your colleagues edit themselves before they speak

If you want to go further When we work with clients we gather evidence to serve one purpose: to support or undermine a claim, an assumption or a hypothesis. It stops you building work around unexamined issues and keeps you grounded in evidence your colleagues trust. Here's our method on one page.

Get it here: https://cheatsheet.elementofinclusion.com/

If leaders reject your evidence, they have a competing interpretation and your case has only done half the work. Here I unpack how to complete it.

In this episode we cover:

• Why data and evidence are not the same
• How competing interpretations block action
• How to use 4 sources in both directions

If you want to go further When we work with clients we gather evidence to serve one purpose: to support or undermine a claim, an assumption or a hypothesis. It stops you building work around unexamined issues and keeps you grounded in evidence your colleagues trust. Here's our method on one page. Get it here: https://cheatsheet.elementofinclusion.com/

If you can't define bullying, you can't cost it. Here I break down the research definition, the causes and what it costs your business.

In this episode we cover:

• The 3 elements of workplace bullying
• How working conditions predict bullying at work
• Why the cost of bullying is understated in your business

If you want to go further When we work with clients we gather evidence to serve one purpose: to support or undermine a claim, an assumption or a hypothesis. It stops you building work around unexamined issues and keeps you grounded in evidence your colleagues trust. Here's our method on one page. Get it here: https://cheatsheet.elementofinclusion.com/

If you started your inclusion work without gathering evidence for the problem, you can't prove what changed. Here I unpack why.

In this episode we cover:

• Why most inclusion work starts without evidence
• How little evidence you actually need
• Why no evidence in means no evidence out

If you want to go further When we work with clients we gather evidence to serve one purpose: to support or undermine a claim, an assumption or a hypothesis. It stops you building work around unexamined issues and keeps you grounded in evidence your colleagues trust.

Here's our method on one page.

Get it here: https://cheatsheet.elementofinclusion.com/