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What the DEI Backlash Gets Right—and What It Gets Dangerously Wrong
The current backlash against DEI creates an uncomfortable choice for organisations—or at least it appears to. Defend everything that has historically carried the DEI label or distance the organisation from inclusion altogether. Neither response is particularly useful. A more productive starting point is to acknowledge something that critics sometimes get right: Not every initiative conducted …
Read MoreWhy Inclusion Strategies Fail When They’re Heavy on Activity and Light on Systems
Many organisations, despite the backlash on DEI, are doing more on inclusion than ever before. There are leadership commitments, awareness campaigns, employee networks, training programs, events, communications and carefully constructed action plans. And yet, after all that activity, a difficult question remains: What has actually changed? Has access to opportunity become fairer, are promotion and …
Read MoreThe Emerging AI Divide: When Unequal Enablement Creates Unequal Opportunity
Why the next workplace inequality may not come from biased algorithms—but from how organisations implement AI. For the past two years, organisations have focused on an important question: Can artificial intelligence discriminate? The evidence suggests it can. Research has shown that AI systems can reproduce or amplify bias embedded in training data, system design and …
Read MoreRethinking Unconscious Bias: The Necessary Systemic Component
For years, unconscious bias has been explained through a simple story. The human brain receives more information than it can fully process. It therefore uses shortcuts to make rapid judgements. Some of those shortcuts draw on stereotypes and associations outside our conscious awareness. These hidden biases can then influence our decisions. There is some truth …
Read MoreThe Uneasy Truth Behind High Potential
Many organisations have matured their talent systems over the past decade. Performance frameworks are embedded, calibration routines are familiar, and leadership competency models are widely used to anchor expectations. Yet one topic continues to generate discomfort in executive conversations: the idea of “high-potential” talent. For some leaders, the term carries the implication of exclusivity, a …
Read MoreThe AI Adoption Gap Between Women and Men Needs a System Lens
The AI Adoption Gap Between Women and Men Needs a System Lens Generative AI is moving fast from novelty to infrastructure. Investment is accelerating. Boards are paying attention. AI capability is increasingly seen as central to future competitiveness. But the more important question is not simply: who has access to AI? It is: who is being enabled …
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