Founded by the amazing Dianne Greyson they provide Strategic Consultancy, developing and executing high-level strategic plans to improve overall performance of long-term business goals and to improve cultural change within an organisation. Equilibrium Mediation Consulting Ltd provides high-level project support on specific change management strategies. Taking a “critical friend” approach that allows you to evaluate your strategy at critical stages of any project.
Our Community is a directory of amazing specialists that can help with all sorts of EDI related issues and challenges that you might be encountering on your journey.
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Today marks the start of Global Intergenerational Week 2025.
In just 5 years time, 47% of the working population will be over 50, yet 82% of over 50s don’t hear back from recruiters or hiring firms. So how do we improve age inclusion in the workplace?
This conversation explores the myths and stereotypes about Gen Zs to Baby Boomers and everyone in between and the benefits of an intergenerational workforce.
During our “In Conversation” series, Co-founder Liz Mayers explores a wide range of equality, diversity & inclusion related topics with our Community of experts, for fun and learning.
Today marks the start of Infertility Awareness Week 2025. To bring awareness to the important issue of infertility in the workplace, we were privileged to host this In Conversation session about Infertility in the Workplace.
The conversation explores the challenges of juggling the rollercoaster journey of infertility, whilst trying still trying to maintain our careers.
1 in 7 couples experience fertility challenges… If you employ 7 people, chances are one of them might be going through a nightmare in silence. Watch the full conversation here 👇
During our “In Conversation” series, Co-founder Liz Mayers explores a wide range of equality, diversity & inclusion related topics with our Community of experts, for fun and learning.
Alexa Stewart, Culture & Engagement Director at Cirkle said “We’re excited to embark on our journey with EDI Accreditation Ltd—an organisation that empowers people-first businesses like Cirkle to stay accountable to their EDI ambitions. Through this process, we aim to establish clear, intersectional, and independent measures of our EDI practices—ones that are both data-driven and people-focused. As a proud BCorp and Blueprinted business, we’re not content to rest on our achievements. Instead, we’re lifting the bonnet to examine even deeper, the inner workings of our agency culture and operations. By collaborating with Liz and her team, we’re eager to uncover what’s working, what could evolve, and how we can make meaningful improvements to the culture and environment we foster for our team at Cirkle.”
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With Women’s History Month just over and April being Stress Awareness Month, what better time to explore ways for women to support their own careers and wellbeing, from the inside out.
If you are a woman, employ women, or have women in your life you care about, tune in to hear these simple but effective ways to support women better.
Watch the full conversation here 👇
During our “In Conversation” series, Co-founder Liz Mayers explores a wide range of equality, diversity & inclusion related topics with our Community of experts, for fun and learning.
Through Mosaic Fusions, Susan Popoola works with leaders and their organisations to navigate the challenges and complexities they encounter on their journeys to create Harmonious and Impactful environments in which everyone’s value is realised for the benefit of all. They support leaders through one to one support, organisation development, workshops, masterclasses and masterminds that create real Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Our Community is a directory of amazing specialists that can help with all sorts of EDI related issues and challenges that you might be encountering on your journey.
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During our “In Conversation” series, Co-founder Liz Mayers explores a wide range of equality, diversity & inclusion related topics with our Community of experts, for fun and learning.
Stress Awareness Month is an annual event observed every April since 1992, dedicated to increasing public awareness about the causes and cures of stress.
If you don’t already have a mental health or wellbeing policy in place, or provide access to support via your workplace, simple steps like:
Setting realistic and achievable targets or deadlines
Making sure people are not regularly having to work additional hours to get through the workload
Creating an open and safe environment where people are not afraid to ask for help and support
can help reduce stress and improve mental health. Which, as well as being kinder to your people, also reduces sickness and absences, boosting productivity!
Today is Transgender Day of Visibility. The day celebrates the joy and resilience of trans and non-binary people, while also combating disinformation, discrimination, and hate.
The day was created in 2010 by trans advocate Rachel Crandall, who wanted a day to celebrate the lives of transgender people while acknowledging the challenges they face.
Today, 15 years later, Transgender Day of Visibility is more needed that ever. With governments in the UK and USA targeting trans people, attempting to remove their rights, making their paths to gender affirming healthcare more difficult than ever and transphobic hate crimes increasing, there has never been a scarier time to be a trans person.
The USA has been grabbing headlines since Trump’s inauguration. With his immediate and extreme Executive Orders aligning with Project 2025 removing Trans rights, before moving on to women and everyone else. People have been likening the dystopian reality unfolding in the US to the book and television series The Handmaid’s Tale. If you want to know more about what is happening in America, Erin Reed is a great LGBTQ+ journalist who gives regular and insightful updates about anti-Trans and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation there.
Whilst, for some, it might feel like a more subtle attack in the UK, the Labour Party has been a huge disappointment to the LGBTQ+ communities since coming to power. With ongoing debates about gender recognition, gender affirming health care, single-sex services, and the impact of the Cass Review on youth gender services, and the government taking steps to clarify legal gender definitions – Trans rights are definitely under attack. The Labour government backtracked in February on promised reforms to make it easier for people to legally change gender.
Wes Streeting, Health Secretary claims to be “led by the evidence” but consistently relies on so called “independent evidence” which, at best leaves Trans voices out and at worst, is deliberately anti-trans. The Sullivan Review (commissioned by the Conservatives but being accepted by Labour) to review how data and statistics record gender identity and “biological sex” is yet another example. The review was led by sociology professor Alice Sullivan. However, Sullivan has ties to anti-trans groups such as Sex Matters. Her association with gender-critical groups should have been seen to compromise her position as an independent reviewer and was a “clear sign of bias” but is something the Health Secretary appears willing to overlook.
Aside from the government’s failing to understand, listen to or represent Trans and Non-binary voices, the media constantly echoes and amplifies anti-trans sentiments, spreading misinformation and stirring up hatred.
What is clear to us through our work, is those with strong anti-trans opinions, have rarely met or know any trans people. Their views have been entirely shaped by scare-mongering headlines.
That is why on this day of Trans Visibility we want others to actually see and hear about Trans people from Trans people. Get to know the human beings who are debated and vilified by a government and media who doesn’t know them.
Our Trans Inclusion Charity Partners Global Butterflies provide Trans and Non-binary Inclusion training, workshops and consultancy to help organisations become more inclusive. Their Global Butterflies Fund was established to support organisations working to advance human rights and protections for trans and non-binary communities in the UK and worldwide raising £33,000 in 2024.
Their founders Rachel Reese and Emma Cusdin said “Transgender Day of Visibility is a day where we celebrate the positivity, strength and resilience of transgender people worldwide. It’s a day where we come collectively together, in the face of growing discrimination towards our community, and stand tall, proud and unbowed. We need all our allies, on every day but especially this day to be loud and active.”
So, in these worrying time for Trans & Non-binary people what can you do to show your support and be a better ally?
In the workplace:
Ensure you have a zero-tolerance approach to transphobia and misgendering
Have positive policies affirming your commitment to equality and respect in the workplace
Ensure Leadership teams and hiring managers have been trained on Inclusive Leadership and hiring practices
Train employees on inclusion topics, including Trans & Non-binary inclusion regularly
Encourage participation in Employee Resource or Special Interest Groups for shared support and learning
Create a safe and inclusive culture where all your people have a sense of belonging and can show up as their authentic selves
Personally:
Learn – educate yourself. Seek out podcasts, books and blogs (start with the ones listed above) that will increase your understanding and help you see the human stories behind the headlines
Always make the effort to use people’s preferred pronouns – if you accidentally mess up, apologise and do better in future
If you hear someone being deliberately or repeatedly misgendered, speak up and correct the mistake
Call out transphobia wherever and whenever you see it
Be an ally to anyone who you see experiencing transphobia
If you care about equality, diversity and inclusion in your workplace, check, do you have a Trans & Non-binary inclusion policy or plan? Do you have Trans or Non-binary staff or customers who you think you could support better?
Jessica specialises in mental health training, consultancy services, and one-to-one mentoring and wellbeing support. She designs and delivers evidence-based training programmes that help individuals and organisations create mentally healthy workplaces and communities.
With a unique combination of cultural understanding and expertise in systemic practice, Jessica facilitates sustainable change by addressing the deeper patterns that influence both personal and professional dynamics.
Our Community is a directory of amazing specialists that can help with all sorts of EDI related issues and challenges that you might be encountering on your journey.
Access the Community of specialist resources here.
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