Podcast
ROI of DEI
Hosted by 73bit.com · EN
a business growth podcast for DEI consultants
18episodes
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228 The Hidden Cost of Poor Workplace Culture with Guest Stacey Gordon
5d ago00:43:16Tap to summarizeWe covered topics - Your journey as an inclusive workplace consultant- What are your core offers?- What do leaders often miss when they assess workforce challenges?- What are the everyday behaviours that quietly damage culture but never get reported?- When a company loses a good employee, what costs are leaderstypically underestimating?- When was the first time you realised that inclusion directly impacts retention and business performance?- What are the most useful metrics you’ve seen that actually influence leadership decisions around retention?- How can the inclusion work be tied back to ROI?- What’s the hardest part about getting budget approvals?- If you had 90 days with no new budget, where would you focus first to improve retention?- What does the ROI of DEI mean to you?----Important LinksGuest - LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/staceygordon/ ) Website - reworkwork.com----Download the white paper ROI of DEI, click here → ROIofDEI.ai Any feedback? please email vikram@73bit.com
Transcribe →227 What It Takes to Transform EDI Across an Entire Sector with guest Mark Harrison
2w ago00:42:43Tap to summarizeWe covered topics - What impact do you want to create?- What is your primary responsibility as a Head of EDI Transformation?- How sector-wide change in EDI actually happens- The difference between awareness work and strategic transformation- What does success for fairness and inclusion look like in organisational terms, specific to the construction sector?- How organisations can move from policy commitments to measurable change?- How do you share success stories that resonate with non-EDI leaders?- If you had 90 days inside one organisation with no new budget, what would you change first?- What does the ROI of DEI mean to you?----Important LinksGuest - LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-harrison-/ ) ----Download the white paper ROI of DEI, click here → ROIofDEI.ai Any feedback? please email vikram@73bit.com
Transcribe →226 How to Turn Inclusion Into Strategic Impact with Guest natalia-nana
3w ago00:56:32Tap to summarizeWe covered topics - Your journey into EDI- What impact do you want to create?- Many organisations struggle to get leadership buy-in and budget for EDI work. How to overcome it?- What does it actually look like when inclusion is embedded into an organisation’s strategy rather than treated as a side initiative?- What signals tell you that leadership genuinely understands the value of inclusion?- In sectors like charities where resources are often limited, how do you make the business case for investing in EDI?- How can organisations measure whether their inclusion work is actually making an impact?- What are some of the biggest misconceptions leaders have about EDI work?- If you had 90 days inside one organisation with no new budget, what would you do first?- What’s the hardest part of getting a budget signed off for your work?- What does the ROI of DEI mean to you?----Important LinksGuest - LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliananalesterbush/ ) ----Download the white paper ROI of DEI, click here → ROIofDEI.ai Any feedback? please email vikram@73bit.com
Transcribe →225 Why gender balance at work is so hard to crack with Guest Stephanie Aitken
4w ago00:56:36Tap to summarizeWe covered topics 1. Tell us about your journey into gender diversity2. What impact do you want to create?3. You commissioned your own independent research called What Women Really Want in Corporate Britain — what made you do that and what was it about?4. You've said companies feel like they're doing the work to improve gender balance but not seeing results — why do you think that is?5. What are the hidden costs companies aren't seeing?6. What are the specific things companies are getting wrong that is preventing them from realising the full potential of their investment?7. How much of this is a culture problem versus a policy problem — and why does that distinction matter?8. You've developed something called Gender Harmony — why does that matter to the ROI conversation?9. What does a high-return approach actually look like and how can you measure it?10. If a senior leader listening to this wanted to genuinely move the needle in their organisation, what's the one thing they should stop doing and the one thing they should start?11. How do you help organisations?12. How do you secure budget for your services?13. What does the ROI of DEI mean to you?----Important LinksGuest - LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/aitkenstephanie/ ) Website - stephanieaitken.com Research Report - What Women really want — The voice of UK Corporate Women Download the white paper ROI of DEI, click here → ROIofDEI.ai Any feedback? please email vikram@73bit.com
Transcribe →224 How Can Inclusion in an Organisation Lead to More Productivity? with Guest Heeral Gudka
Apr 2500:42:41Tap to summarizeWe covered topics - Your journey into EDI- What impact do you want to create?- When EDI work is done well inside an organisation, what productivity signal improves first?- Why is it impossible to build inclusion while avoiding uncomfortable conversations?- How does psychological safety influence innovation and problem-solving capacity?- When you think about the organisation where your EDI work had the biggest impact, what actually changed in their performance or output?- Where does exclusion quietly drain productivity inside organisations?- You work with emotional intelligence in EDI. How does EI translate into measurable performance?- What does that ripple effect look like in tangible business outcomes?- Was there a moment where you thought, ‘If they could see this in metrics and money, the buy-in would be easy’?- What’s the hardest part of getting budget signed off for EDI work when you frame it as productivity?- When leaders avoid complex EDI issues, what productivity costs are they unknowingly paying?- What have you seen happen to a team when they finally feel safe enough to have honest conversations?- What does the ROI of DEI mean to you?----Important LinksGuest - LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/heeralgudka/ ) Website - convergentconsulting.org----Download the white paper ROI of DEI, Click here → ROIofDEI.ai Any feedback? Please email vikram@73bit.com
Transcribe →223 From Risk to Revenue The ROI of Second-Chance Employment with Guest Yolanda
Apr 1800:29:43Tap to summarizeWe covered topics - Your journey into Televerde- What is a second-chance employment model and how do you recruit incarcerated women?- When you look at Televerde’s model at its best, what has actually changed in the business performance for your clients?- Most organisations view second-chance hiring as a risk. How do you reframe that conversation?- How do you maintain high performance standards while operating a second-chance model?- What’s the hardest part of getting senior leaders comfortable investing in a second-chance employment model?- If leaders stopped seeing second-chance employment as a social initiative and started seeing it as a talent strategy, what would change tomorrow?- How do you overcome the stigma of your internal staff?- What does the ROI of DEI mean to you?----Important LinksGuest - LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/yolanda-s-70882316b/ ) Website - televerde.com----Download the white paper ROI of DEI, click here → ROIofDEI.ai Any feedback? please email vikram@73bit.com
Transcribe →222 How to redesign Inclusion-First leadership with Guest Rufsana Begum
Apr 1100:41:00Tap to summarizeWe covered topics - Your journey into Inclusive Leadership- What impact do you want to create?- What is your core offering?- What’s broken in traditional leadership development models? - Where do most L&D programmes unintentionally reinforce exclusion?- What shifts when inclusion is embedded into leadership KPIs? - How do you measure whether inclusive leadership is actually working?- What does the ROI of DEI mean to you?----Important LinksGuest - LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rufsana-b-35b25611b/ ) Website thebrownpen.substack.com----Download the white paper ROI of DEI, click here → ROIofDEI.ai Any feedback? please email vikram@73bit.com
Transcribe →221 How to Fix Disengagement, Turnover & Culture Drift in Growing SMEs? with Guest Sharon Kemp
Apr 400:51:28Tap to summarizeWe covered topics - Your journey into a Culture Catalyst- What impact do you want to create?- What are your core offers?- Where do your SME clients feel disengagement most?- How often do SME leaders talk about preventable turnover in real numbers?- What do you wish SME leaders understood about the cost of doing nothing?- When you talk to senior SME leaders, what language lands: values, risk, retention, productivity?- When you think about the best client you’ve ever helped, what actually changed in their business?- What’s a moment where you thought, “If leadership could see this in numbers, this decision would be easy”?- What are 1–2 leading indicators that culture drift is happening before turnover spikes?- What’s the hardest part of getting budget signed off for culture work in SMEs?- If you only had 90 days and no new budget inside an SME, what would you fix first?- What does the ROI of DEI mean to you?----Important LinksGuest - LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-kemp-39559b3 ) Website - thrivecomms.online ----Download the white paper ROI of DEI, click here → ROIofDEI.ai Any feedback? please email vikram@73bit.com
Transcribe →220 Disability Inclusion: Building Organisations That Work for Everyone with Guest Mik Scarlet
Mar 2800:56:05Tap to summarizeWe covered topics - Your journey into an access and inclusion advisor- What impact do you want to create?- What is your core offer of the consulting?- When an organisation truly improves disability inclusion, what service outcome improves first?- How does inaccessible design suppress productivity for disabled employees?- How does inclusive service design improve customer experience for everyone, not just disabled people?- Was there a moment where you thought, ‘If they could see this in metrics and money, the buy-in would be easy’?- What do you wish organisations understood most about disability unit economics?- What’s the hardest part of getting organisations to invest properly in disability inclusion or budget approval?- What does the ROI of DEI mean to you?----Important LinksGuest - LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/mik-scarlet/ ) Website - mikscarlet.com ----Download the white paper ROI of DEI, click here → ROIofDEI.ai Any feedback? please email vikram@73bit.com
Transcribe →219 How can we use creativity to make connection measurable with Guest Amanda Kelleher
Mar 2100:35:03Tap to summarizeWe covered topics - Your journey into DEI- What impact do you want to create?- What does measurable connection actually look like in a workplace?- When creativity is embedded into a team, what business value outcome improves first?- Your frameworks like Rhythm to Regulate™ and Rhythm to Connect™ — what happens neurologically when people engage through rhythm and play?- Was there a moment where you thought, ‘If they could see this in metrics and money, the buy-in would be easy’?- When teams are under pressure, why is creativity often the first thing cut — and what does that cost them?- What’s the hardest part of getting budget signed off for creative, connection-focused work?- If leaders treated connection as infrastructure instead of atmosphere, what would change tomorrow?----Important LinksGuest - LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-kelleher-4a889747 ) Website - amandakelleher.co.uk ----Download the white paper ROI of DEI, click here → ROIofDEI.ai Any feedback? please email vikram@73bit.com
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