Financial Changemakers, Series 2 - Practicality & Language

Welcome to the Financial Changemakers podcast with Gretchen Betts – Managing Director at Magenta Financial Planning and Olivia Parnell – Coach, New Horizons, Voluntary Norfolk. This podcast series is for you if you are interested in learning about diversity and inclusion and are keen to embrace and make positive change in your life, business, management style or company ethos. In this eighth episode, hosts Gretchen and Olivia, discuss Practicality and Language with their guest Anj Handa - Founder of Inspiring Women Changemakers.  Anj supports organisations by working with them to keep their policies and practices up to date in relation to inclusive communications, diversity, and good governance. Diversity underpins everything. Anj talks to us about how businesses need to be aware of what’s really going on in their working environment. Staff turnover Grievances Exit interviews Staff Absences Lack of Participation If we collect the information, provide a healthy workspace, and provide the training to facilitate this this will lead to better diversity and inclusion outcomes.  If people in roles of leadership aren’t diverse. What difference will the changes truly make? Key Take Aways from this episode: Corporate policies can only go so far. It is about people. Workplaces are shaped by the way people interact with each other. Take the time to think about how you can have more positively influence the way people within your workplace are interacting with each other. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Don’t be complicit. If you see something is wrong, say something. This podcast series is about creating a safe place for discussion and ultimately enabling you, our listener, to be a Changemaker. Let’s listen. Let’s Discuss. Let’s Learn. Let’s Implement Positive Change.