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Apr 25, 2022

3 work lessons from a kids book

One of my best friends recently recommended a book she thought Aunt Kristen (my favourite identity) might be interested in: What are...

Disordered thinking? Or diverse thinking?

Dinah Vincent

Apr 14, 2022

Disordered thinking? Or diverse thinking?

This is part of our series on biases in the workplace. A full list of bias blog posts can be found at the bottom of this blog or here: If...

Dinah Vincent

Mar 8, 2022

A question for men on women's day

Tuesday 8 March is International Women's Day (IWD). The official website for 2022 invites readers to: imagine a gender equal world. A...

Be first or be forgotten: the power of the primacy effect

Dinah Vincent

Aug 20, 2021

Be first or be forgotten: the power of the primacy effect

This is part of our series on biases in the workplace. A full list of bias blog posts can be found here: If you're biased and you know it...

Dinah Vincent

Mar 22, 2021

Create an inclusive environment

Diversity and inclusion is an obligatory topic in leadership courses now. Sometimes it's the primary focus of a workshop. Sometimes it's...

Levelling the field for psychological safety

Dinah Vincent

Mar 15, 2021

Levelling the field for psychological safety

I entered 'psychological safety' into the search field on You Tube last week. Not a cry for help, just part of my ongoing inquiry into...

Dinah Vincent

Sep 29, 2020

The necessity of discomfort

Diversity and inclusion are on the agenda for organisations worldwide. The driver is for more fair and equitable outcomes. Or is it? The...

Dinah Vincent

Sep 1, 2020

Tick box past unconscious bias

Is this possible? The question came up during our August 2020 presentation about our brains and bias. The answer: possibly not, but the...

Kristen Gyorgak

Jun 9, 2020

Our most powerful weapon

Thomas Paine, a 1700s political activist in the US, famously said, the pen is mightier than the sword. That’s because words change the...

Kristen Gyorgak

May 18, 2020

Our Friday quizzes

A few weeks back we decided to up our quiz game. Not content with simply ploughing through the Stuff quizzes, we decided that on Fridays...

Kristen Gyorgak

May 8, 2020

The 5G conversation we should be having

For the past few months, conspiracy theories have been running wild about what 5G networks are and aren't doing (newsflash: they do not...

Women's leadership – one step forward and one step back

Hilary Bryan

Apr 1, 2019

Women's leadership – one step forward and one step back

Over the years, we’ve kept an eye on Grant Thornton’s research on women and leadership and found it useful. Its 2018 report: Women in...

Hilary Bryan

Aug 27, 2018

Diversity checklist

What makes people feel comfortable to be who they are at work? It’s far more likely to be emotion, rather than logic. After all, who’d...