Transforming Business with Inclusion and Innovation
Non-fiction / Business / Leadership / Diversity and Inclusion
Date Published: June 8, 2021
Hephzi Pemberton’s first nonfiction, business book The Diversity Playbook provides an empowering and uplifting experience. It contains proven expertise, factual examples and practical tools to transform your business and leadership approach with inclusion and innovation as a central shared goal and priority.
Her book demonstrates with clarity, relevant case studies and the latest research, as well as an applicable exercise in each chapter, to show how leaders and firms who embrace and embed inclusion and diversity into their business will benefit. They will be the businesses that innovate and adapt more rapidly. They will have a workplace culture that the latest talent seeks out and stays with. They will reach a wider set of customers and clients who feel valued and understood. They know that to achieve these benefits and many others besides, leaders and businesses now and in the future will have to take inclusion and diversity seriously.
DEI Strategy - Chapter 6
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Successful delivery of an inclusion and
diversity strategy across your whole business will yield positive returns. It
will allow you to capture the vast business value of untapped potential, and
ensure that you continue to have a social licence to operate in a fast-changing
and sustainably-minded world. Today, businesses must have purpose as well as
profit.
One of the greatest barriers to achieving equal
representation in the workforce is bias. Bias prevents equal access to
employment and leadership opportunities. One of the strategies that many
companies have adopted to address the problem of bias is unconscious bias (UB)
training. However, the issue with focusing on UB exclusively is that it
oversimplifies the challenge. Psychology reveals that bias is much deeper
rooted, and unconscious bias training does not tackle different types of bias,
including the things we would do openly if there was not fear of social
ostracisation.
Rather than focusing on unconscious bias alone,
companies need to work holistically on building an inclusive culture and
redesigning systems to manage for bias. Bias training with the inclusion of
targeted strategies can be successful when applied together.
About The Author
In 2018, Hephzi founded Equality Group, an Inclusion and Diversity specialist business focused on the Finance and Technology industry. Equality Group helps companies to diversify their teams, using their executive search service, and creates a more inclusive cultures with their consulting and education services. Equality Group has partnered with many leaders in sustainable investing, such as Generation Investment Management, and Private Equity and Venture Capital firms who are committed to being leaders in inclusion and diversity.
Hephzi has been angel investing since 2010 and has invested in technology start-ups across AI, Logistics, Health and Beauty, E-Commerce and Education. She has also advised a number of businesses on their hiring practices, board composition, compensation structure, strategic and fundraising plans.
Alongside her commercial experience, Hephzi has founded a social enterprise called Kiteka, empowering female micro entrepreneurs in Uganda to access digital opportunities through mobile technology. Hephzi has sat on the board of trustees for three other charities focused on youth employment, homelessness and community development.
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