How To Embed Inclusion In Your Tech Business

Sheree Atcheson - Head of Diversity and Inclusion - Monzo Bank

'How to Embed Inclusion In Your Tech Business'
In this session, Sheree will talk about the business benefits of diversity and inclusion, why they're crucial to technology and different ways you can embed inclusion at the heart of everything you do - from how you form your teams, develop your solutions, test your ideas and more.

Agile Scotland March 2020

Transcript

1. How to embed inclusion in your tech business
2. Who am I? Sheree Atcheson Award-winning Leader. Head of Diversity & Inclusion Global Ambassador Forbes Contributor @nirushika on Twitter | Sheree Atcheson on LinkedIn
3. What is diversity and inclusion? @nirushika
4. What happens if we get it right? @nirushika
5. One woman on the board of a business can reduce risk of bankruptcy by 20% @nirushika
6. When employees “think their organisation is committed to and supportive of diversity, and they feel included”, innovation revenue increases by 83% @nirushika
7. An inclusive organisation is 2x as likely to exceed financial targets, 3x as likely to be high-performing, 6x more likely to be agile and innovative, and 8x more likely to achieve better business outcomes @nirushika
8. Companies in the top quartile for gender diversity - 15% more likely to outperform competitors. Those in the top quartile for ethnic diversity - 35% more likely to outperform competitors @nirushika
9. What causes these benefits? @nirushika
10. How do you achieve these benefits? @nirushika
11. Openly hear feedback from all in leadership sessions Form teams representativ e of society Ensure user personas are diverse Appoint meeting facilitators and make agendas the norm Actively seek to be challenged and become comfortable doing so @nirushika
12. What else are we doing? @nirushika
13. Engage Retain Grow @nirushika
14. One final ask from me... @nirushika
15. Push yourself to think more broadly @nirushika
16. Thank you! @nirushika on Twitter Sheree Atcheson on LinkedIn