Breaking Down Bias

Talk

Tuesday 13 October 2020
10:00 - 11:00

In this webinar we hear from industry leaders who have broken down the barriers of bias and share their experience and achievements to help create a more inclusive industry.

Bias can be a barrier in the workplace that not only prevents people from effectively working together but can directly impact the diversity of the hiring process and the retention rates. The built environment industry is chronically suffering from a lack of diversity and inclusion, which in turn has a detrimental impact on business itself.

Diversity is an asset to any organisation, with a diverse workforce a business can expect diverse and dynamic solutions and outputs, appealing to broader audiences and ultimately becoming a more successful and profitable business. A McKinsey & Company global study from 2015 found that ethnically diverse companies are 35% more likely to have financial returns above national industry medians and gender diverse companies are 15% more likely to do the same.

In this webinar we hear from industry leaders who have broken down the barriers of bias and share their experience and achievements to help create a more inclusive industry.

PROGRAMME

10:00 Welcome from Chair

Benjamin O’Connor, Director, New London Architecture

10:05 Bola Abisogun OBE, Chairman, DiverseCity Surveyors

10:15 Jos Boys, Co-Founder, The DisOrdinary Architecture Project

10:25 Rachel Bell, Director, Stride Treglown

10:35 Panel discussion

With above speakers, plus…

Priya Shah, Founder, BAME in property

Nikki Linsell, Operations Director, Public Practice

11:00 End

DOWNLOAD SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS

Bola-Abisogun-OBE---DiverseCity-Surveyors.pdf
Rachel-Bell---Stride-Treglown.pdf
Jos-Boys---The-DisOrdinary-Architecture-Project.pdf

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Speaker biographies

Co-Founder, The DisOrdinary Architecture Project

Benjamin O’Connor

Director, New London Architecture

Bola Abisogun OBE

Chairman, DiverseCity Surveyors

Director, Stride Treglown and National Chair for Women in Property

Priya Aggarwal-Shah

Founder, BAME in Property

Operations Director, Public Practice

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