Fireside Chat: Realizing the Power of Difference w/ Simon Fanshawe & Edythe Nash

“Diversity can no longer be a separate strategy. It needs to become the way your organization or team recruits, manages, and retains the talent you need to tackle your significant challenges. Amongst them: the changing world of work, the transformation of the skills required in your sector, and the digital future. To create real change diversity needs to be the talent strategy for your organisation that opens opportunities to value the widest range of people.” (Simon Fanshawe)
CoachingOurselves is proud to present a Fireside Chat with CoachingOurselves author, Simon Fanshawe, hosted by Edythe Nash, President of E. Nash Associates and CoachingOurselves partner.
Simon Fanshawe is the author of the newest CoachingOurselves module “Realizing the Power of Difference: Thinking Differently About Diversity”. Simon’s career has spanned stand-up comedy, broadcasting for the BBC, feature writer and columnist for national newspapers in the UK, and as a co-founder of the consultancy “Diversity by Design”. He was one of the six co-founders of the highly successful UK lesbian and gay equality lobby, Stonewall. In 2013 he was honoured by The Queen with an OBE for services to Higher Education. In the same year he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Sussex for services to diversity and human rights.
We are delighted that Edythe will be hosting this Fireside Chat. Simon and Edythe will share their thoughts on the value of different perspectives, how to reap the “diversity dividends”, and how to shift diversity in organizations from “a thing that companies do”, to “the way they do things”.
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NOTES & REFERENCES:
1- THE TANGLED RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH INTO ‘BLACK’ AND ‘WHITE’ SOUNDING NAMES ON CVs
Field Experiments on Discrimination MIT by Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) & Esther Duflo (MIT Economics Department)
Prepared for the Handbook of Field Experiments January 7th 2016
economics.mit.edu/files/11449
2- BHP BILLETON
The World’s Biggest Mining Company Wants Half Its Workforce to Be Women by
Madeline Farber Fortune October 20th 2016
fortune.com/2016/10/20/bhp-bi...
3- MEN AND WOMEN AND RISK
Adding Women to the C-Suite Changes How Companies Think
by Corinne Post, Boris Lokshin, and Christophe Boone
April 06, 2021 Harvard Business Review
hbr.org/2021/04/research-addi...
4- PROFESSOR IRIS BOHNET - Academic Dean at Harvard Kennedy School
Her book: “What Works” published by Harvard University Press 2016
5- SITUATIONAL JUDGEMENT TESTS for interviews
Iris Bohnet and also “When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint vs. Separate Evaluation MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Vol. 62, No. 5 May 2016, pp. 1225-123
ofew.berkeley.edu/sites/defau...
6- DANIEL BARENBOIM ON THE EAST WEST DIVAN ORCHESTRA
“How Daniel Barenboim’s orchestra of Israeli and Arab musicians is faring in the current political climate” by Mark Swed Nov. 8th 2018
www.latimes.com/entertainment...
7- LACK OF EFFECTIVESNESS OF TRAINING
“Why Diversity Programs Fail And what works better “ by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev. Harvard Business Review July-August 2016
hbr.org/2016/07/why-diversity...
8- MANAGERS THINK IT’S MORE DIFFICULT TO MANAGE DIVERSTY.
This research shows how that is perception rather than reality
“The Biases That Punish Racially Diverse Teams”
by Katherine W. Phillips, Robert B. Lount Jr, Oliver Sheldon and Floor Rink
Harvard Business Review February 22, 2016
hbr.org/2016/02/the-biases-th...
9- (NEGATIVE) EFFECT ON (MANY) WOMEN OF WORKING FROM HOME DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC
Mums doing lion’s share of childcare and home-learning during lockdown - even when both parents work - June 2020 Sussex University
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/rea...
10- Debates about RACE / HEALTH / COVID
a) Lack of genetic / biological coherence of race:
“How to argue with a racist” by Adam Rutherford - Published by Orion 2020 p59
b) “The health of people from ethnic minority groups in England”
King’s Fund analysis by Veena Raleigh and Jonathon Holmes - February 2021
www.kingsfund.org.uk/publicat...
11- TARGETS - WHEN THEY CAN BE USEFUL AND WHEN THEY CAN’T
Drucker Institute: “Measurement Myopia”
www.drucker.institute/thedx/m...
12- RESEARCH ON BIAS IN THE POLICE
“Biased” by Jennifer Eberhardt - Published by William Heinemann (Penguin Random House) 2019
13- PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY
“Teaming” by Amy C Edmondson pp122-148 Published 2012 by Jossey-Bass
14- RENT-A-MINORITY
Arwa Mahdawi
www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-tren...
rentaminority.com/