Diversity & Inclusion Predictions: What I Got Right In 2019 & New Predictions for 2020

Every year I make predictions about diversity and inclusion trends 

Find out what my predictions were for 2019 year and new predictions for 2020

Here are some key messages from this episode

  • My Top 3 Predictions for 2020
  • What I got right in 2019
  • The special bonus I have for you!

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Here are some key takeaways from this episode

2020 will see poor management of data

“We’re going to see organisations asking the wrong questions and getting poor quality data. Asking people if they think the organisation is inclusive is not a reliable measure of inclusion, it measures what people think but don’t forget a lot of underrepresented voices will be lost if you’re not careful about how you collect and analyse this data”

2020 will see a focus on intersectional individuals

“I think there’s going to be a need for organisations to treat people as multicultural individuals with intersectional identities. Organisations are going to realise that we all have an ethnic identity, we all have a class background, we all have a sexual orientation even though for many these are never discussed because they are taken for granted as being “normal”

2020 will see powerful insights from mixed methods research

“Not enough researchers use qualitative and qualitative research, and organisations should do both.. it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I do both,

Knowledge of the lived experience, brings the numbers to life and it holds the figures to account.

Here are some resources so you can go deeper

Sam Smith comes out as non-binary: ‘I’m not male or female’

Crafting an identity: an examination of the lived experiences of minority racial and ethnic individuals in the workplace

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