by Gifford | Jan 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’ve spent the last week setting up work with different #organisations and I’m amazed at how very #seniorleaders are still playing the #tick-box card. They talk a good game. They say that they wish to see #EDI change in their...
by Gifford | Jan 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
I sustained a terrible #muscle#injury in the week before this #newyear, which left me immobile. I couldn’t sit for long; couldn’t stand for long; couldn’t sleep for long. It’s been awful. However, I came across the attached #clip and it buoyed...
by Gifford | Jan 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
#Thank you! As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve had a very fruitful year, helping to bring about change in several #leadership#teams and #organisations. Here’s another I wish to share with you. I worked with a small #university based in the...
by Gifford | Dec 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
#Whistleblowing about #racism can hardly be #anonymous, especially if the #whistleblower is one of a tiny group of #peopleofcolor in the #organisation, and worse still if they’re the only one. Mercy! It tends to...
by Gifford | Dec 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Discombobulating is one of those long #words I don’t often use, but when I pronounce it, I kinda feel the essence of its #meaning. And this is what happened in yesterday’s #coaching session I had with a young black middle manager of...
by Gifford | Dec 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
A number of you have given me feedback on my recent post about my broadcast interview on BBC Radio London. The interview was on the sad and damning report of the institutional racism and misogyny reported of the London Fire Brigade. (Click the link for a snippet) One...
by Gifford | Dec 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
I had the pleasure last week of giving a talk at the University of Oxford last week. It was great to be back in Oxford, where I once worked and lived, to meet with some outstanding students from the Oxford Law Society and Oxford African and...
by Gifford | Nov 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Hold onto the rope,” we are told. “It’s your lifeline!” I’ve had a busy weekend. I was interviewed on BBC Radio London on the sad and very damning report (Independent Culture Review by Nazir Afzal OBE) of the...
by Gifford | Nov 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Are you taking advantage of your workers? Very recently, during my Inclusive Leadership workshop in a corporate business, one of the leaders said, “But my workers are simply not bothered, they’re not interested!” It turned out that he was routinely ringing them...
by Gifford | Nov 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
A picture paints a thousand words. In my work in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, I often deal with people’s perceptions of the black body – how it enters and exits the workspace. This work is awesome in so far as I work with a number of talented...
