The Hill We Climb: An Inclusive Perspective

Sometimes all this Diversity and Inclusion stuff feels a bit heavy, like an uphill struggle

Find out about three inclusive themes that I found from the poem, The Hill We climb

Here are some key topics covered from this episode:

  • The bias you’ll find in this show
  • The inspiration we took from a poem
  • How we need to manage an Inclusive Inheritance and much more

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Here are some key takeaways from this episode: 

We’ve got a Hill to climb but it’s not all doom and gloom

“Sometimes you may need a boost, you may need encouragement and you can rely on us to help you with that. It also means we should take inspiration where we find it”

We’re going to avoid false conflict

“this is something I come across all the time with our clients, the way that diversity and inclusion is discussed is often pretty lazy by people who know a little bit but not enough and this is why you often get this idea of false conflict”

We’re going to be unafraid

“That’s what I want for you, to create spaces where you can step out of the shade. Where you can be unafraid”

Here are some resources so you can go deeper: 

Transcript of Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem

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