Axel Springer
DEI Development Programs for Individual Contributors
Current diversity and inclusion initiatives such as diversity recruitment targets, maternity policies, flexible workplace practices, mentoring programs and unconscious bias training, are limited to addressing policies and processes, but they ignore the practices – that is the behaviours and norms that create the lived experience of inequality. Our programs are designed to advance cultural change within organisations and enable employees to make inclusion a practice every day. The simulation exercises ensure lots of interaction among participants to boost peer-to-peer learning.
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Values drive culture, and culture drives productivity, safety, sustainability, and inclusion. Our Values in Action program takes the next step towards embedding corporate values into the way that employees behave, leaders lead, and the workplace works. It provides clarity on how employees need to work when it comes to demonstrating acts of inclusion and living their organisation’s values. We provide a simple, shared language to ensure individuals know how to align their decisions and actions to the organisation’s values. If you want to outcompete your competitors and lead your business into the future start with putting your company values into action. The core content when it comes to the practices associated with the values is tailored to each organisation.
To move beyond performative allyship, organisations need champions who will work with their diversity and inclusion team to advance cultural change within the organisation. Through our Champions for Change program, we create a safe space for individuals to reflect, review, and explore how they can advance DEI at work by providing examples, case studies, and insights into what it means to be a catalyst for change. We enable champions to identify why advancing DEI serves them personally, and how they can take action every day. This practical applied interactive learning series develops the foundational capability of any diversity and inclusion change agent.
Being an ally isn’t just a matter of tolerance or even quiet support. Allyship involves deliberate intent and steps towards empathy, and specific actions towards improving the experience of minority groups. The Allyship in Action program will provide employees with the tools they need to tackle everyday behaviours that are sexist, discriminatory, and exclusionary. This includes developing employees’ ability to have difficult conversations, and to give and receive direct one-on-one feedback.
Our Clients
See how we’ve helped global clients drive transformational change through customised DEI solutions.
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Europe's leading independent natural gas and oil company strengthens its commitment to not only be diverse but to champion workplace inclusion.
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World’s leading recruitment organisation adopts an intersectional approach to attract and retain diverse talent across the entire employee life cycle
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International design firm harnesses the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion to turn change into progress
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The largest provider of shared communications infrastructure in North America invests in training its people to transform their organisational culture.
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One of the largest banking groups in Europe moves beyond unconscious bias training to engage senior leaders in real change.
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One of the industry’s fastest growing and most innovative learning technologies on the market invests in building a culture of care in a hybrid work environment.
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Featured Insights
Research has shown that workers are far less effective at building relationships when they primarily communicate with colleagues virtually rather than in person, which can result in reduced team coordination, efficiency, and productivity.
New Age guru Deepak Chopra and actress and mental health advocate Gabriella Wright have teamed up with the women’s underwear brand EBY to launch the EBY X Love in Action campaign, which features an online platform that provides women with free access to a three-month mental wellbeing program.
Leaders create culture through the behaviours they choose to ignore, reward, endorse and engage in themselves. If you want to know whether your company’s culture is toxic, take a close look at the behaviours leaders engage in.