How to include diversity and equality in the workspace by Satyashiv D’mello founder of conscious-development.com

FLO – Vadodara Chapter hosted a workshop to highlight thow members hold an incredible amount of influence and can widen their circle of inclusion by equipping them with additional tools required to create a socially sustainable society that values diversity and its role in our overall success.

This 2-hour session covered critical areas and tools to address how we can become inclusive. This included a panel discussion with head of Human resources at TCS on the benefits of a inclusive work space. The other topics discussed were

• Awareness about diversity in workplaces, society, and culture- at a cognitive and emotional level
• Personal insights aimed to purposefully expand our positive impact: at home and in our

workplaces

• Tools that we can use to become more inclusive and understand what it means to be an ally of diversity
• Identifying pathways to create psychologically safe spaces
• Have the understanding to take to action, ways in which inclusion can be built within personal and professional networks
• Unconscious bias and the damage that can happen
• Difference between diversity, equity, equality, parity, inclusion, and belongingness, and whyunderstanding this distinction is crucial
• Impact of Inclusion on well-being, performance, and success (individually and systemically)
• Creating a world for the future
• Taking learning to action: becoming an ally