Yasmin Rose is a facilitator and HR director with over 15 years of experience in the hospitality and logistics sectors. She has been working with Be The Riot since 2021, helping organisations to strengthen their culture through sessions on topics like inclusive behaviours and anti-racism.

If you've been watching the recent Netflix show Adolescence, you’ll know it’s got people talking, as the series shines a light on boundaries, consent, and the real-life impact of sexual harm. It's powerful, uncomfortable, and important - and it’s fuelling conversations that workplaces can no longer avoid.

Emma spent several years working for the London Metropolitan Police in Brixton, South London, before starting to work in the field of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI)

In 2023, 35% of workers in the UK did NOT feel comfortable discussing high or extreme work-related stress with their line managers.

It's LGBT History Month! As with Pride month, many organizations will seize this as an opportunity to focus attention on LGBTQ+ inclusion. But for lasting impact, we need more than a month. Here are a few tips to embed LGBTQ+ inclusion year-round.

Is your organisation measuring how inclusive its culture is? It’s one thing to measure the diversity of the workforce and another thing to understand the culture. Diversity is just one piece of the puzzle. Ideally, you also want to measure employee experiences of equality, inclusion, belonging, fairness and equity.

People want to see that your organisation values EDI. 76% of employees and job seekers report that a diverse workforce is an important factor when evaluating companies and job offers. This is especially true of people from underrepresented groups. (Glassdoor 2021).

When you think about leaders, you imagine someone confident, adaptable, responsible. We could go on and on listing the qualities of a good leader. But what makes someone an inclusive leader?

People often challenge the idea of having separate employee network groups… they say having separate groups leads to division and these separations don't support intersectional identities…

Last year taught us many important lessons in diversity & inclusion that I hope we can all carry through into 2021.