Neurodiversity: the key to corporate creativity
Last week I wrote an article about my own brush with bipolarism and how mental illness can actually be a positive experience. It seemed to strike a nerve. It...
It’s time men got into the gender equality conversation
It has been over two years since I co-founded Token Man, an initiative to get men to understand the challenges women face and to inspire real behaviour change in...
Diversity Dischmersity!
“And now, the end is near, and so we face, the final curtain.” – Paul Anka This week marks the end of our first deep dive focus; Diversity &...
How to conquer the enemy lurking within your workplace culture
Think of an organisation you admire. Inspiring. Innovative. Inclusive. Maybe you fell in love with it as a customer. Perhaps their cause resonates with your head and your heart....
R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Find out what it means to your business
In the three decades I’ve been in the world of employment, I’ve only ever had disciplinary action taken against me once. And that was for disagreeing with a colleague. I...
Thunder beats rainbows: why clashes are better than harmony
Presumably, we agree that diversity and its good pal inclusivity are good things. We’ll also agree that open minds work better than closed ones, and acting like an arsehole...
Tackle Diversity. Have a good argument.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the...
Come and explore diversity and divergency with us
Well, our very first Focal Point is well and truly underway. And we want to invite you to help us explore Diversity and Divergency at a FREE workshop next Tuesday...
I’m Too Busy to be Disabled: Why (mis)perceptions of disability are limiting employers
“We’re too busy to be disabled…” That’s something my wonderful friend (and disability rights and advocacy guru) Rosemary Frazer said recently, and it taps into something I’ve been thinking...
Welcome to our first Focal Point: Diversity & Divergency
This article is a pretty historic one for Open for Ideas. For a start, it’s the 100th article we’ve published. That’s a big deal for us! It means we’re...