by Gifford | Aug 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Have you ever listened to a #podcast while ironing (say) a shirt, and when it’s done, you stopped and thought, “What the heck”? Well, that’s just happened to me. My friend and colleague, Amit Popat, blew me away with the way he drove this discussion,...
by Gifford | Aug 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Celebrations have a way of bringing people from our past together. I had the wonderful and serendipitous pleasure of meeting an old friend from my ‘Leicester days’ – Professor Ivan Browne, Pro-Chancellor of De Montfort University. And this was way before any of...
by Gifford | Aug 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Policing by consent is not merely transactional. It’s relational. Because of our reputation in the DEIB space, my organisation, Rockstone Consultancy, gets invited by different sectors to sit on different kinds of boards, focus groups, advisory panels and...
by Gifford | Jul 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Allyship by remote control is not sustainable! We sometimes become aware of #identity issues through work. By identity, I’m referring to #gender, #race, #LGBTQ+, #disability, etc. For many #employees, it might be the first time that...
by Gifford | Jun 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Blessings to the distinguished #Windrush#Generation! These are they who settled in the UK from the #Caribbean between the 1940s, 1950s & 1960s. No, they were not #immigrants, as they were made to feel – and as the Windrush discourse bleated out...
