Is it possible to have a level playing field for disabled people?

Kirsty grew up in a small village where she was known as ‘the blind girl’. As one of the first blind children to go to mainstream school, nobody could really help her when it came to exploring careers. Fast forward 30 years and she's now the Co-Founder of B-Radical and Co-CEO of Radical Recruit. Compelled to set up a service designed to enable disabled people to start well and thrive in their jobs, B-Radical’s Accelerating Accessibility service offers tailored support to both employers and their disabled hires, critical to sustaining a thriving and inclusive workforce.

5 mins - 3 key challenges for disabled people

7 mins - organisations say 'we're not quite there yet'

12 mins - it's not about perfection, it's about progress

14 mins - reasonably adjustment and taking responsibility

17 mins - access to work

20 mins - what does it mean for disabled people in the future?

26 mins - ask 'what can we do to make this process accessible for you?'

About Kirsty

Kirsty has over 20 years’ experience working in the Charity Sector and leads on Early Careers recruitment and the Accelerating Accessibility programme at B-Radical. She’s also the CEO of Radical Recruit which is funded by the work of B-Radical and supports those furthest from the labour market to mobilise out of poverty by securing employment.

Kirsty fought for the same chances as her sighted peers and made the decision not to go to university. She is eager for businesses to reimagine their early career programs to foster inclusivity from the outset. By ensuring diversity at the entry level, companies can build a robust pipeline of diverse talent, paving the way for a diverse leadership team in the future.

About Juliet Morris:

Juliet is co-founder ⁠Open Square Limited⁠, an award-winning boutique consultancy helping global leaders make sense, make progress, and make waves. She is an award-winning coach, consultant and leader with 20 years' experience in helping expert people and STEM organisations build brilliant futures. Juliet is passionate about helping humans build a better and more intentional future and invites you to join ⁠IF club⁠ where you will complimentary weekly receive tips, tools and insights to help build your Intentional Future.

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Music: ⁠Cave Rat⁠

Talent sharing could be the answer to the changing work dynamics to fill the short-term skills gap, offer a flexible and diverse experience to your teams, and enable your top talent to stack their skills (and not get bored). So why do organisations not do this more readily?

In this episode with Suzy Lockwood, co-founder and COO of ditto we discuss external secondments, known as talent sharing.

4 mins - shared economy could be shared talent

7 mins - external secondments

8 mins - the alternative to regrettable redundancies

11 mins - on the job training, reskilling, upskilling - preventing your talented teams from quitting

14 mins - flex and add to the individual's skills portfolio, fractional secondments

19 mins - skills-based work, the future?

21 mins - how to skills-match with ditto

23 mins - how external secondments can benefit your organisation

About Suzy Lockwood and ditto

Suzy has spent her career leading and delivering multi-million pound tech transformation programmes in central Government, delivering technical strategy and innovation products. Suzy saw first hand the dependence and taxpayer money spent on contractors to plug skills gaps, but also saw the benefits of cross-pollinating talent between industries, and decided to do something about it. She co-founded ditto in late 2023 with her two co-founders, Hector Stanley & Dave Owen. We’re ditto, the talent sharing marketplace. We are on a mission to bring the shared economy to the permanent workforce. We connect companies from different sectors to share industry-agnostic skillsets via secondment. Our members can borrow, loan or swap permanent talent with ease - whether to provide unique upskilling opportunities to their employees, or to fill a temporary skills gap in their organisation.

About Juliet Morris:

Juliet is co-founder Open Square Limited, an award-winning boutique consultancy helping global leaders make sense, make progress, and make waves. She is an award-winning coach, consultant and leader with 20 years' experience in helping expert people and STEM organisations build brilliant futures. Juliet is passionate about helping humans build a better and more intentional future and invites you to join IF club where you will complimentary weekly receive tips, tools and insights to help build your Intentional Future.

What Kind of Future is available on Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, Website, Pocket Casts.

Music: Cave Rat

In this episode of What Kind of Future, Alana describes what the workplace looks like from an employment lawyer lens, the value and meaning of work, and much more.

4 mins - what does the workplace look like

5 mins - how expectations have shifted

8 mins - productivity, control, sense of purpose

12 mins - the blurred lines of traditional outcomes

14 mins - value and meaning at work

17 mins - the biggest shift to the workforce

About Alana Penkethman

Alana is an employment lawyer, with a specialist interest in finding ways to help businesses and individuals get the best out of work. This can include tackling discrimination, and making sure everyone is able to achieve their full potential in the workplace, but it can also involve looking at strategy and structure, and assessing whether people are in the best roles for their skillset. She loves working with experts in policy, HR, and recruitment, and as the world of work continues to evolve, believes it is important for us all to keep an open mind as to how we can ensure the future workplace is sustainable.

About Juliet Morris:

Juliet is co-founder ⁠Open Square Limited⁠, an award-winning boutique consultancy helping global leaders make sense, make progress, and make waves. She is an award-winning coach, consultant and leader with 20 years' experience in helping expert people and STEM organisations build brilliant futures. Juliet is passionate about helping humans build a better and more intentional future and invites you to join ⁠IF club ⁠where you will complimentary weekly receive tips, tools and insights to help Build your Intentional Future.

What Kind of Future is available on ⁠Spotify⁠, ⁠Amazon⁠, ⁠YouTube⁠, ⁠Website⁠

Music: ⁠Cave Rat⁠

In this episode of What Kind of Future, Sarah shares what make it human means and how it evolved.

4 mins - What does make it human mean

6 mins - Are we going back down old paths?

8 mins - Work and careers are playing second fiddle

14 mins - Moving work and life online

18 mins - Tension and desire for better and more meaningful work

21 mins - Nurturing a work culture

26 mins - Redefining the role of managers and looking in different places

30 mins - Tips

About Sarah McLellan

Sarah is a work psychologist, author and business leader with 20 years' experience using people science to build happier, healthier more human workplaces. She has experienced the good, the bad and the ugly in workplace cultures. Sarah leads Make it Human, a consulting company partnering with organisations to cultivate cultures where people and business thrive. Her book also titled Make it Human (launching in June) captures this vision and includes models and stories to enable practical steps towards making this a reality. Sarah is passionate about turning workplace cultures into climates for human growth to enable more fulfilling, happier experiences of work, and fuel sustainable impact in businesses and society. You are welcome to join a growing community of leaders, managers and individuals sharing a similar vision for a better, brighter future of work in the Make it Human Club. You will receive regular insights, tools, and stories to help Make it Human where you are, all for free.

Join the Make it Human Club.

Find out more or get in touch at: www.make-it-human.com

About Juliet Morris:

Juliet is co-founder Open Square Limited, an award-winning boutique consultancy helping global leaders make sense, make progress, and make waves. She is an award-winning coach, consultant and leader with 20 years' experience in helping expert people and STEM organisations build brilliant futures. Juliet is passionate about helping humans build a better and more intentional future and invites you to join IF club where you will complimentary weekly receive tips, tools and insights to help Build your Intentional Future.

What Kind of Future is available on Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, Website

Music: Cave Rat

In this episode of What Kind of Future, Karen shares how she came to move into recruiting for the transport industry, women in transport, and why transport is a great industry to be in if you want to be part of change.

4 mins - what kept Karen in hiring for the transport industry - change, feminist vein, out of sector

7 mins - transport and politics

10 mins - approaching out of sector

13 mins - women in transport and Karen's talk

18 mins - what kind of future does the rail and bus sector have

25 mins - multiple hires for real value and onboarding

28 mins - how to succeed

34 mins - tips if you want to be part of the change and transformation in transport

About Karen Camilleri

Karen Camilleri, owner and Managing Director, set up Camilleri Appointments because she had a strong desire to use her extensive experience of working for big recruitment companies and apply it differently. She wanted to step away from the need to adhere to a rigid structure and to take the emphasis away from meeting revenue targets and place it on delivering positive outcomes for all involved. She wanted to understand what organisations and those seeking work needed and she wanted to work with them to come up with solutions they valued and could get the most benefit from.

Karen is now an Ambassador to Radical Recruit that support disadvantaged people into work, a sponsor and mentor for Women in Transport.

Further information: A powerful video about how fundamental and crucial it is to give marginalised people the opportunity to work. Whilst Karen recruits executives this is why she works hard to champion these causes.

About Juliet Morris:

Juliet is co-founder Open Square Limited, an award-winning boutique consultancy helping global leaders make sense, make progress, and make waves. Juliet coaches leaders, executives and tech professionals who want to build a better and more intentional future, with less tension and more joy. She also supports high growth and transforming global and scale-up organisations as a fractional consultant.

What Kind of Future is available on Spotify, Amazon, YouTube, Website

Music: Cave Rat

Why don’t we learn from history? With Dr Bruce Lloyd

Bruce spent over 20 years in industry and finance before joining the academic world a decade ago to help establish the Management Centre at what is now London South Bank University. He has a Degree in Chemical Engineering; a MSc (Economics) / MBA from the London Business School and a PhD (by published work) for his work on 'The Future of Offices and Office Work: Implications for Organisational Strategy'. Member of Chartered Management Institute’s 'Leadership Research Panel' 2000-1 and Panel on ‘Leading Change in the Public Sector’.

Since the late 1960's he has written extensively (about 200 published articles) on a wide range of strategy/futures related issues, including articles exploring the link between Leadership, Power and Responsibility and, more recently, the relationship between Leadership, Wisdom, Knowledge Management and Organisational Performance.

He has undertaken over 30 interviews for Leadership and Organisational Development Journal, as well others for The Tomorrow Project Bulletin. He was the UK co-ordinator for 'The Millennium Project' 1999-2005; a founder member of Shaping Tomorrow and a member of the Association of Professional Futurists. He has been active in the ‘futures industry’ since he first wrote a pamphlet on ‘UK Energy Policy’ in the 1960’s. He was also involved with the Long Range Planning Journal since the 1980’s and was its Review Editor for over 20 years.

In this episode of What Kind of Future, Bruce shares his experiment with Bard, the role of values, how strategy is a people subject, and what is the real learning and behavioural change?

A huge thank you to Bruce for our conversations and email exchanges. He inspires my thinking and you might get to see us speaking again in the future.

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Here’s a couple of articles to read:

Power, Responsibility, Wisdom

How do governments add more to society?

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Music: Cave Rat

Listening Exquisitely

I'm delighted to talk to Sharon Small, founder of the Clean Language Institute. We cover how clean language helps with differing views, relationships, and the future has a greater possibility of a greater variety of humans.

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