Organised by Escape the City
According to a LinkedIn survey of 9,000 talent leaders and hiring managers around the world, the number one global recruiting trend was diversity.
Diversity hiring isn’t a trend — it’s a smart way to do business in the global market. A diversified workforce is more than just an item to be checked off a list — it's a real competitive advantage.
According to research, diverse companies:
- Have 19% higher revenue (reported by Boston Consulting Group)
- Are 1.7 times more likely to be innovation leaders in their market (according to Josh Bersin)
- Are 70% more likely to capture a new market (statistic by Harvard Business Review)
In this lunchtime session, we'll be joined by Dr Nancy Roberts to explore how to attract diverse talent to your organisation and share some tips and tricks to help your reach great people and build an inclusive talent pool.
About our speaker - Dr Nancy Roberts
Nancy spent 20 years in the publishing sector working in production and operations for companies ranging from Penguin to Cambridge University Press, before leaving to specialise in diversity and inclusion. She is the founder of Umbrella, a tech startup which uses data analytics, AI and machine learning to help businesses realise the benefits of a more diverse workforce through pay and performance monitoring, people analytics, and inclusive language and content analytics. She has a PhD in Postcolonial Feminist Literary Theory and an Executive MBA from Cranfield University. She is also a NED for Break the Mould CIC and sits on various advisory boards, including We and AI, a non-profit aiming to educate and inform the public about the risks and benefits of AI, and the Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, part of UKRI. She is deeply passionate about social justice and the importance of data in monitoring and achieving this goal.
About Escape the City
We’re on a mission to help one million people to do work that matters to them and the world. Not just to find more fulfilling work but create it too. Online and offline we’ve seen first-hand the incredible power in connecting likeminded, motivated, passionate people with purposeful organisations.
Whether it’s a small step or a brave leap, we’ve learned that amazing outcomes and inspiring change is best achieved together.
We want to wake people up to what work can really look like. To careers built on freedom, passion, autonomy, fulfilment, and purpose. To more connected and more meaningful lives. To 21st Century Careers and organisations, built on their terms, not someone else’s.
We’re doing it because we believe a million more people doing work that matters to them will change the world.
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This event is part of our event series on Inclusive hiring. This series will run each Wednesday in August and help progressive organisations learn how they can improve the inclusivity of their hiring processes. Join us for one, or all of these sessions and get involved.
Session 1: Improving neurodiversity in hiring
Session 2: Attracting diverse talent (this event)
Session 3: Improving your hiring process
Session 4: Measuring what matters
This session will be recorded and shared with all those who register.
- hiring
- diversity
- startups