‘How often does it need to rain for us to know that the ground gets wet?’ It feels a bit like that when it comes to addressing our gender issues – we all know what we ought to be doing – and if we don’t, there’s plenty of experts out there ready to share their [...]
What did we learn about equality this year? And how is 2020 likely to help the fight against discrimination? In this article for Fintech Futures, Angela Peacock reviews what we learned in 2019 and the issues we need to address for 2020 in order to make diversity and inclusion part of our business critical objectives. [...]
Inclusion is the key to better diversity Without a culture of inclusion in the workplace, diversity is doomed to fail. PDT Global Founder and CEO Angela Peacock chats to DiversityQ's Cheryl Cole about why creating an inclusive environment requires commitment and embedding processes and how measuring progress is essential to making a difference. Read [...]
How to support an employee coming out as LGBTQ - and what to avoid The statistics don't lie - 91% of LGBTQI+ employees are still covering an element of who they are at work and one in five stating they have received negative comments about who they are. There is still a way to go [...]
Three ways fintech can address the gender pay gap Bias is often hidden behind certain points in the employee lifecycle even more so when it comes to the gender pay gap. With women in the UK representing less than a third of total staff in the fintech sector we need to understand what the main [...]
“We need to challenge the unfounded gender biases such as benevolent bias” with Angela Peacock and Candice Georgiadis Interview for Authority Magazine 16th Sept 2019 - 23 min read We need to challenge the unfounded gender biases such as benevolent bias — the bias of kindness, where I choose to make a decision about [...]
Do we have technology bias? If you saw a group of students looking at their mobile/ cell phones while in a classroom would you assume they weren’t paying attention? In a world of ever evolving methods of learning, DIGITAL LEARNING can accelerate ways to reach, embed and retain important messages with more personal and meaningful [...]
Can inclusion training really be the answer to changing culture and creating inclusive working environments? It can – but not in the style you would expect. Get inside the mind of our Global Head of Digital Training, Nic Girvan, where she delves into the world of digital learning - what it HAS done and what [...]
Our CEO Angela Peacock writes about how workplace culture undermined by bias can affect safety and risk management in her blog for The Insurance Post titled -The Inclusion Risk Factor. In Angela's words, 'A number of major disasters are all said to have involved flawed decisions, driven by individual perceptions. Disasters such as the [...]
Our senior consultant, Alasdair James Scott contributed to a recent article in the Business News Daily on 'How to support an employee coming out at work' In Alasdair's words, 'Many LGBTQ people think a lack of support from colleagues and supervisors, and past experience of discrimination, are often preventing them revealing their authentic selves and [...]