Inclusion isn’t failing because people don’t care.
It’s failing because people aren’t incentivised to act inclusive.

Key Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. The Incentive Problem of Diversity and Inclusion
2. Why Inclusion Efforts Stall Despite Good Intentions
3. How to Design Incentives That Actually Reward Inclusion

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Key Takeaways from This Episode:

1. People follow the incentives.
   
   • "People aren’t skipping inclusion because they don’t care. They’re responding to the incentives in front of them."
2. The real inclusion gap is about accountability.
   
   • "If time spent on inclusion feels invisible, people will always choose something else."
3. Don’t ask for inclusion unless you’re willing to incentivise it
   
   • "Reward people who act inclusively"

Check out these resources :

3 Reasons You Should Conduct Social Experiments in Your Employee Resource Groups to Promote Diversity

ERGs are “a waste of time.”
Too many people think this.

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Key Takeaways from This Episode:

You can’t scale ERGs if participation is penalised.

"It’s not a lack of commitment. It’s an incentive problem."

Stop pitching passion; start mapping outcomes.

"Leaders want to see business impact."

Instrumental ERGs lead to strategic integration.

"Frame them as business-critical projects."

Check out these resources (if applicable):

Why The 2 Core Functions Of An Employee Resource Group Matter For Diversity & Inclusion

Dr Jonathan’s Thesis

You’ve heard people telling stories and acting like it’s evidence.
but how do you turn anecdotes into evidence?

Key Topics Covered in This Episode:

1. Why anecdotes are claims not conclusions
2. The difference between claims, assumptions, and hypotheses
3. How to test ideas without wasting time or budget

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Key Takeaways from This Episode:

1. Anecdotes are starting points, not stopping points.
   • "The story is typically making a claim and they are presenting it as evidence."
2. Anecdotes are hiding places for claims
   • "These are statements but if you’ve been to enough panel events you’ll hear a witty story wrapped around it."
3. Claims aren’t conclusions until they’re tested.
   • "We don’t just accept that. We test it. We gather evidence to support or contradict it."

Check out these resources:

• Reconstructing Inclusion by Amri B. Johnson
• “You are harder to ignore when you have evidence to support your claims. It works like a magic pill!”