The Business Case: Equality Inclusion and Diversity - Enhancing Objectivity and Decision Making

It is widely recognised that organisations that are more diverse perform better. For public bodies, this is also about being reflective of those that they serve. Being diverse is the start of the journey. Enhancing equality and inclusion to leverage the power of diversity is the glue that enables organisations to see a problem and offer advice to solve it.

 

At the Civil Service College, we tailor our courses to each attendee’s role and organisation, ensuring that each participant gets the most out of the training. Our courses and trainers are continuously updated and evaluated to ensure that we are always delivering the best service possible.

 

Key Training Features

Who Can Attend

Learning Outcomes

 


Key Training Features:

  • What is Equality and Diversity and why does it matter?
  • Barriers to inclusive cultures
  • Demographic diversity and cognitive diversity
  • The power of diverse thought
  • The leadership challenge - creating a culture to harness the power of diverse thought

Learning Outcomes:

  • Enhance understanding of diversity
  • Increase the awareness of the importance of cognitive diversity in objective decision making
  • Generate ideas for implementation structures to enable a more inclusive culture

 


Summary

Duration

10:00 - 16:00

Price

Available to be delivered In-House. Contact us for a quotation.

Location

Civil Service College, Westminster, London

In-House Option

This course is available In-House and can be tailored to meet your individual training requirements.

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Lead Trainer

David Pearson

David Pearson

David Pearson is an award-winning leadership and inclusion expert, keynote speaker and presenter. He also created the UK’s only in-house LGBT-inclusive leadership certification.

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David Pearson

David Pearson

David Pearson is an award-winning leadership and inclusion expert, keynote speaker and presenter, and creator of the UK’s only in-house LGBT-inclusive leadership certification.

As Director, Global Inclusion & Diversity at KPMG, David supported inclusion for more than 200,000 people in 154 countries. With a background in KPMG’s Corporate Finance practice, he is currently undertaking ground-breaking research in the field of leadership, culture and inclusion while Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Corporate Responsibility for an international law firm.

David led KPMG’s LGBT network since 2013, which in 2018 was named Network of the Year at the British LGBT Awards. He is a Patron of Freedom to Donate, a Trustee of ELOP LGBT Mental Health & Wellbeing, and an alumnus of the Stonewall Leadership Programme, Out Leadership’s OutNEXT programme for LGBT leaders, and Centre For Synchronous Leadership’s “Inspire Like A Man” and “Walk The Tightrope” leadership programmes. He has sat on The Economist Global Pride & Prejudice Advisory Board and the Advisory Council for Radius Business.

In 2017 he was named as a NatWest Top 10 Diversity Champion and in 2019 as Channel 4 Diversity Hero of the Year. In 2021 his team won the Excellence in Equality & Inclusion Award at the People in Law Awards. He is a past regional and national winner of Boston Consulting Group’s Business Strategy Competition.

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