Learning and Development

We advocate for long-lasting positive change by providing training workshops and keynote talks to challenge mindsets and break biases, to create truly equitable, inclusive workplaces.

Inclusion Training

Tailored to your needs, our innovative inclusion training supports organisations across all areas of their business. We provide a L&D catalogue that includes enabling an understanding of the foundations of EDI, inclusive leadership, and the importance and benefits of recruiting inclusively – why it matters and how to do it.
 
In addition, we continue the evolving EDI conversations through our bite-sized EDI Dialogue sessions.

Vanessa Johnson-BurgessKeynote Talks

Through her keynote talks, our CEO Vanessa Johnson-Burgess enables people and organisations to achieve their greatest purpose – eradicating barriers for self or others, to create environments and feelings of belonging in equitable spaces for all.

The Workshops

Our interactive and engaging workshops are designed to ensure long lasting, continuous change and progress, and encourage an intersectional approach to inclusion. We create a safe space to help you make the necessary, impactful changes to your mindset and methods, and arm you and your organisation with the knowledge and tools needed to bring true inclusion and belonging into the workplace.


We can deliver the following workshops either virtually or in-person:

Foundations of EDI - Bias, Privilege and Microaggressions

This workshop explores how, as individuals, we show up in the workplace and impact on the wider society through our own lens of bias, privilege and microaggressions. We explore these subjects over a 3 hour (half day) session and delegates will leave these workshops understanding their own lived experience and how this will impact on others around them.

• A thorough understanding of why EDI is and will continue to be part of the conversations in society and the workplace.

• An understanding of privilege and how to use it to power up others.

• An understanding of bias, their blind spot areas and an exploration of how to manage bias.

• Understanding microaggressions and stopping them from happening.

Inclusive Leadership

The Inclusive Leadership programme is designed for delegates with leadership responsibilities. This full day workshop will empower leaders and people managers to embed inclusion in their leadership style, enabling them to become better leaders within a diverse and inclusive organisation. Attendees will explore and learn their leadership style, understand the impact of this style on diverse teams and be able to lead and support a diverse and high performing team.

• Individual leadership style analysis – What type of leader am I, what do others see?

• Understanding my privilege and how it affects my leadership style.

• How your leadership style may influence diverse team members.

• Understanding diversity and inclusion as a leader – Equity, Intersectionality, Inclusion and Belonging.

• Tackling bias in leadership – My own and others.

• Learning anti-racist behaviours in leadership.

• Handling conversations about inclusion.

Inclusive Recruitment

An opportunity for hiring managers and senior leaders to build effective and inclusive recruiting skills within your organisation. Through this participative and critical learning full day workshop we equip hiring managers with the ability to attract, recruit and retain diverse talent. This workshop will enable attendees to review and improve their current recruitment process, making it more inclusive and giving them the capability to implement change.

• Understanding the case for EDI in the recruitment process and the impact of poor recruiting.

• Understanding your own bias and impact on EDI as you recruit for your organisation.

• Challenging and handling Bias in the recruitment process.

• Attracting diverse candidates.

• Screening and sourcing inclusively.

• Interviewing inclusively.

• Applying equity in your recruitment approach.

• Adapting the recruitment process more inclusively within your organisation.

Anti-Racism / Conversations about Race and Inclusion / Microaggressions

These three programmes are packed into three x 1.5 hours workshops in a series of learning sessions around Inclusion, Race and Racism. They are designed for anyone who wants to understand the impact of racism and trauma and start to unlearn and learn behaviour that will reduce the harm of discrimination. Attendees will explore and learn about anti-racism, microaggressions and handling conversations about race and understand the impact of these on marginalised individuals around them. and high performing team.

• Learning how to be anti-racist through learned and unlearned behaviours with key anti-racist actions.

• Understanding microaggressions and stopping them from happening.

• Handling conversations about inclusion and race as an ally.

EDI Dialogues

Our EDI Dialogues are bite-sized inclusion workshops, usually delivered virtually, that form a part of the wider Inclusive Recruiting L&D catalogue. Sessions are approximately 60-90 minutes long. We have a series of topics that we can deliver - most are delivered by our in-house team, however we do have a few sessions that will be delivered by our core associates as we believe lived experience is essential in workshop delivery.

Topics covered include:
● Belonging ● Intersectionality ● Bias ● LGBTQIA+ ● Gender identity ● Transgender Inclusion and Awareness ● Neurodiversity
● Faith & Religion ● Ageism and Intergenerational Working ● Disability Awareness ● Mental Health and Inclusion in the Workplace

Please talk to us if there is an EDI topic you don't see listed here, as our Dialogue sessions can be tailored to your needs.

Move past talking about EDI and start taking action!

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The Inclusive Recruiting team delivering inclusion workshops to a client - February 2023

Client Testimonials

"Inclusive Recruiting listen, advise and adapt"

For us at Coeo and our current journey, we need to get back to the classics when it comes to EDI education. Inclusive Recruiting offer us an off-the-shelf solution but bespoke it to our needs. Inclusive Recruiting listen, advise and adapt, and that’s exactly what we need from a partner as we go through a cultural transition. Our talent, across the organisation, can now articulate powerfully why EDI efforts matter in the workplace and specifically what they are able to do about it personally. Investing in this education ensures consistency of messaging but also offers our talent space for exploring and discussing these concepts; to have their input and be listened to.
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Alice Pilbeam-Brown
Talent Development and Equity Lead, COEO

"..authentic, supportive and open”

Inclusive Recruiting and Vanessa have been partnering with Criteo on a range of learning workshops and dialogues which are focused on exploring and strengthening our DEI focus. Vanessa’s style as a facilitator is authentic, supportive and open; she challenges participants to open their minds and self-evaluate their own behaviours and actions to drive a real change forward towards inclusion. I’ve enjoyed the adaptability of the programs offered to fit our own needs, whether it is smaller team sessions or larger webinars; and each time these sessions have been positively received by our employees.
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Rachel Scheel
SVP Global Talent Development & DEI, Criteo

"..interesting, engaging and approachable"

I thoroughly enjoyed the whole session, and found Sarah to be interesting, engaging and approachable. She had the attention of the room and I think everyone gained a great deal from the day. Sarah had a way of delivering the information with impact but also in a way that wasn't intimidating if you're someone new to EDIB/someone who needs a little more convincing as to why it's important. From that one session alone, I have taken so much away that I am keen to discuss with colleagues throughout my organisation, and found that regardless of what I already knew, there is still always more to learn, and more ways to apply it that you hadn't already thought of.
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Hannah Bradbury-Crowther
Curator, National Museum of the Royal Navy
(Museum Development South West 'Travelling Together' programme)

"..tailored solutions for us”



Lonza has been working with Inclusive Recruiting now for just over 2 years. From the beginning the team have taken the time to understand Lonza and the Shared Service Centre, where they tailored solutions for us be means of Diversity & Inclusion and HR for Non-HR Managers which were followed-up with regular and timely feedback and coaching to the participants. The approach to this day has been referred to in the highest esteem.

Marrisa Gomez
HR Manager
Vanessa

Keynote Talks

 

With her multiple layers of identity, Vanessa Johnson-Burgess brings a unique perspective. She is keenly focused on intersectional impacts and driven by a wish to inspire leadership and disrupt the usual ways of thinking. This is the bedrock of her personal mission to empower individuals and organisations to shift mindsets and transform behaviours. 

Vanessa’s signature topics

  • Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
  • Intersectionality in an evolving world
  • Leadership development
  • Setting yourself up for success
  • Motivational speeches
  • Women’s empowerment
  • People & Culture
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"I learn something every time I hear you speak. I know that our 1,700 People managers who hear you during these events will feel the same."

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Greg Reed
CEO, Places For People

"One of the most engaging speakers I’ve ever witnessed. Her tone, content and personal stories really bring inclusion and diversity to life."

Louise Roberts
People Strategy and Transformation Leader