Why inclusion is leadership, with Ruchika Tulshyan
Gemma Milne talks with Ruchika Tulshyan, founder and CEO of Candour, about her work helping companies create strategies for improving diversity and equity in the workplace. Learn key insights including the main factors that have helped build momentum around these issues, small-but-significant behaviors and practices that can help boost inclusiveness, and how to think about the benefits of diversity and inclusion using the language of business.
About Ruchika Tulshyan:
Ruchika Tulshyan is an award-winning inclusion strategist who is deeply passionate about designing equitable workplaces. Through her company, Candour, she advises companies on diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy and communications. Ruchika is known for her intersectional and data-driven approach, as well as leveraging her deep expertise in communication to create common language around diversity, equity, and inclusion. She was named the Most Influential D&I leader in 2019 and 2020.
Learn more:
https://www.rtulshyan.com
https://www.candourglobal.com
Topics of discussion
- The most common situations where workplace inequity and exclusion tend to show up (02:37)
- Looking at return-to-work policies through an equity and inclusion lens (16:24)
- Practices to help ensure equitable access to technology (19:30)
- Practices to help ensure equitable access to knowledge and information (23:11)
- Techniques for eliminating “action bias” (30:58)
- Responding effectively to employee input, such as surveys (32:59)
- Putting the benefits of diversity and inclusion into the language of business (36:49)
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