The document discusses the significance of diversity and inclusion in organizations, emphasizing that diverse teams make better decisions and yield improved results. It highlights the barriers to inclusion, such as unconscious bias and lack of flexibility, while proposing the idea of 'hacking' to overcome these challenges. The text encourages readers to innovate and commit to actionable steps towards fostering inclusive environments.

1. HACKING INCLUSION

2. @yellif

3. How would you define inclusion?

4. “Diversity is the ingredients and inclusion is
the recipe.”
Meghan Shakar
Leadership Coach, Google

5. “Diversity is being asked to the part and
inclusion is being asked to dance.”
Vernã Myers
President of Verna Myers Consulting Group

6. Why is it important?

7. 15% 35%
Gender Diverse
Source: McKinsey
Diversity’s Dividend
What’s the likelihood that companies in the top quartile for diversity financially
outperform the bottom quartile?
Ethnically Diverse

8. “Inclusive teams make better decisions
up to 87% of the time.”
Source: Cloverpop

9. “Decisions made and executed by diverse
teams delivered 60% better results.”
Source: Cloverpop

10. “The cost of excluding women and them not
succeeding in their careers is huge. If you add up
women, LGBT people, people of different ethnic origins
or different religions who can feel excluded from the
workplace, it’s a huge pool of talent you’re missing out
on.”
Micheal Brunt, CMO of The Economist

11. What’s the one question you would
like answered today?

12. What are the key barriers to inclusion and
diversity?

13. Lack of flexibility
Unconscious Bias
Gender Pay & Parental Leave Gap
Lack of Diverse talent
In-group vs Out-group
Sexual Harassment
Privilege
Men’s Resistance to change

14. The impact of Unconscious Bias

15. How many of you have been mistaken for a
waiter, a janitor or a security guard?

16. “I am confident I always hire the best person for
the job and that’s what’s important.”

18. “I am confident I hire the best person
for the team.”

19. In-group vs Out-group

21. Name 3 religious holidays

22. Chinese New Year
Diwali
Eid Al-Adha
Eid Al-Fitr
Hannukah
Holi
Passover
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur

23. Covering
How many of you come to work and feel you
can’t be your authentic self?

24. “ 61% of all employees “cover” their identities in
some way – not necessarily hiding something,
but downplaying it for fear of drawing unwanted
attention or making others uncomfortable.”
Source: The Deloitte University Leadership Center for Inclusion report

25. Driving Change

26. © 2013 Cheil Worldwide
Feeling
Time
Shock
Experimentation
Decisions
Integration
Change Curve
Denial
Frustration
Depression

27. The Key Levers
Leadership Recruitment Retention Culture

28. The Key Levers
Leadership Recruitment Retention Culture
Parenting Promotion
Flexible
Working
Education

29. Leadership Recruitment Retention Culture
Parenting Promotion
Flexible
Working
Education
What are the key issues?

30. Become a hacker
”

31. “A hacker is someone who seeks and exploits
weaknesses in a computer system or computer
network.”
Wikipedia

35. Hack
=
To cut or chop with repeated and irregular blows
Wikipedia

37. “The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy
the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming and
circumventing limitations of software systems to achieve
novel and clever outcomes.”
Wikipedia

38. “The hacker culture is a subculture of individuals who enjoy
the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming and
circumventing limitations of software systems to achieve
novel and clever outcomes.”
Wikipedia

40. Hacking = A State Mind

41. Naturally curious
Motivated by making things better
Enjoy taking calculated risks
Do not fear vulnerability
Makers, teachers and thieves

45. “Term time” contract

46. ```
YOUR TURN

47. What are you trying to hack?

48. Leadership Recruitment Retention Culture
Parenting Promotion
Flexible
Working
Education

49. 2 mins
Come up with a hack
on your own

50. 10 mins
In your groups, share and then
choose your favourite hack

51. Share your best
hacks

52. DIVERSE TEAMS ARE MORE EFFECTIVE
DIVERSITY NEEDS INCLUSION
INCLUSION NEEDS INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP

53. Commit to doing one thing before end of Q3 that
makes a tangible difference
Take the Harvard Implicit Association Test
3 things
Read a book or give a book

55. QUESTIONS
daniele@weareutopia.co