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The Fix
by Welton Media Limited
The Fix is a podcast that shares stories of women and men who are taking action and innovating to advance equality in the workplace and beyond.
Episodes
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Eve Rodsky – How To Find Greater Meaning In Life And Work
Aside from sleep, work is where we spend most of our waking hours over our lifetime. How we experience work is how we experience a considerable amount of our lives, which is why managing the meaning we derive from work is essential to our overall life satisfaction. Knowing how your workplace…
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Michelle King – Do You Trust Your Workplace?
The degree to which we feel like we belong at work depends on the nature of our relationship with our workplace. We don’t often think about our job as a relationship, but it is, at least in a sense. Your job is a reciprocal relationship. You exchange your time, energy, and expertise for money,...
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Minda Harts - How To Write A Book That Gets Published
The publishing industry is notorious for a lack of diversity. In 2016 The Bookseller examined the lists of the UK’s most established publishing houses and found that there were fewer than 100 books published by authors of colour. In 2021, out of a total of 4,017 authors and illustrators featured...
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Michelle King – How To Close The Graduate Skill Gap
It's that time of year again; companies are adding new graduates to their ranks and training them, much like they always have. According to a National Association of Colleges and Employers report, despite a slower job market, hiring projections indicate that companies plan to hire 4% more…
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Michelle King - How To Advance At Work Without Losing Yourself
Based on my work, I know for sure that at one time or another, most of us have lost our belief in work. We have felt the pain of being excluded from informal networks, the stress of trying to keep up with the pace of change, or burnout after putting in countless hours to get the next promotion,...
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Charlie Sull: Is Your Workplace Toxic?
According to the most recent “Women in the Workplace” report from LeanIn.Org and McKinsey, the gap between men and women leaving their jobs is the largest it has been since the report was first published eight years ago. For every female director who is promoted, two women at the same level of...
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Aneeta Rattan & Lily Jampol: Feedback - What’s Really Holding You Back At Work
For most people we want feedback at work, but it is also something we dread. Unless feedback is actionable and helpful, it just feels like unnecessary criticism or a way for organizations to try and get people to fit into toxic workplace cultures. In the HBR article entitled Women Get “Nicer”...
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What Not To Do This International Women’s Day
For many people International Women’s Day has lost its way. It is too readily used by corporates as a day to provide lip service to gender equality and women’s advancement at work. But women don’t need one day of celebration, we need companies to take action every day to remove the barriers to...
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Lanaya Irvin: Who Benefits from DEI?
Every year companies spend about $8 billion on DEI initiatives in the United States, according to research conducted by the consulting firm McKinsey. With all this money and attention given to DEI efforts we need to ask ourselves an important question: Who benefits? A 2019 report entitled Being...
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Emma Codd: While We Love Hybrid Working, We Can’t Ignore The Costs
Research is telling us is that hybrid working is something most employees want, it does increase our productivity because we don’t have to commute, and most companies are likely to keep it in place, but it comes at a cost. We need to be aware of these costs so we can manage them. Hybrid working...
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Sarah Wittman: Why Changing Jobs, Changes How You See Yourself
Making a career change is important because outside of sleep, work is where we spend the greatest number of hours over our lifetime. Work plays a huge role in shaping our identities, relationships and sense of belonging. On today’s podcast we are joined by Sarah Wittman, Assistant Professor of...
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Dr Michelle Harrison – Why Progress For Women Leaders Has Stalled
Successful women often disregard gender roles, which makes people uncomfortable. For female leaders, managing this is critical. Having people support you determines how well you can build relationships and influence people, in other words, how well you can lead. Leading through backlash can be an...
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Lisa S. Kaplowitz – The Five Ways Women Lose Themselves Trying To Fit Into Workplaces
Our expectations of leadership are masculine, when we evaluate men’s potential, we are much more likely to see them as a good fit. Women do not meet our masculine expectations, therefore the projection is never triggered. This male bias in our cognitive processing of leadership potential is...
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Dorie Clark – How To Change Your Career And Find Meaning At Work
Today is a special episode, we are going to unpack how to make a career change. Whether that is starting a new job or building your own business, at some point most of us will want to make a change, the problem is it can often feel overwhelming when you do. However, you might be surprised to…
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Lily Zheng: The Three Reasons DEI Efforts Fail – Fatigue, Backlash and Denial
Joining us on today’s episode is Lily Zheng author of DEI Deconstructed and a sought-after diversity, equity, and inclusion speaker, strategist, and organizational consultant who specializes in hands-on systemic change to turn positive DEI intentions into positive DEI outcomes for workplaces and...
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Colleen Ammerman: 3 Workplace Biases That Derail Midcareer Women
In today’s episode of The Fix, we are going to unpack the specific challenges that women face at the midpoint in their careers, with Coleen Ammerman, the director of the 'Gender Initiative' at Harvard Business School and coauthor, with Boris Groysberg, of 'Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the…
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Laura Bates: How To Fix Systems Of Inequality
This week’s podcast features a former guest Laura Bates, who is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of over 200,000 testimonies of gender inequality, with branches in 25 countries worldwide. Laura writes regularly for the Guardian, Telegraph and the New York...
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Dolly Chugh: How To Confront Whitewashed Histories
On this weeks episode, we’re excited to feature our guest, Dolly Chugh. Dolly is an award-winning psychologist and the Jacob B. Melnick Term Professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University. She studies how and why most of us, however well-intended we are, are still prone to race...
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Political Masculinity: Why Women’s Rights Are Under Attack - Susanne Kaiser
Though the reality of women’s rights varies hugely across the world, by country, by geography, by ethnicity, by socio economic circumstance - in recent decades, more and more women have won rights and spaces like never before: like the right to choose for themselves and to autonomy over their...
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All Talk and No Action: Why DEI efforts are falling short - Ann Francke
One thing is clear to me. The progress of DEI efforts in organizations has stalled. New research findings released by the Charted Management Institute or CMI, in the United Kingdom last month reveals a growing sentiment towards DEI efforts. People are growing weary of DEI. In the Managers Pulse...
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If You Can See It You Can Be It - Dr. Tarika Barrett and Denise Lintz
Time and time again, studies have shown that math and science are perceived to be male arenas and that scientists are perceived to be predominantly men. To advance more women into STEM fields, not only do women need to know about the career options available to them but they need to believe its...
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Why the future of gender is non-binary : Christy Pruitt-Haynes
As an employer, it is important to understand gender and non-binary inclusion and what it means for your company – for the way you manage your people and for the way your people interact with each other. There are lots of brilliant resources out there to help with this including the 'Genderbread...
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Empathy: How to build and use it at work – Rob Volpe
We all know that demonstrating empathy is critical to developing relationships, but it is also critical for business. A study by the consulting firm Catalyst examining 889 employees found that when leaders were empathetic, 61% of employees are able to innovate compared to only 13% of employees…
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How to be anti-racist in business – Trudi Lebron
Leaders have a difficult job when it comes to leading on DEI, are you equipped for challenging conversations to arise, do you have enough knowledge yourself and do you have the answers? A leader’s job is to build and maintain cultures that value difference because this is what it means to lead....
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Why AI treats men and women differently and what to do about it - Alexandra Ebert
Is AI inherently sexist? Or are we building AI with the biases we are still struggling to root out of our human interactions? And is a lack of diversity in the innovation process translating into the technology? AI is built and maintained by data, and if the data collected only represents the…
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The Pro’s and Con’s of Diversity Targets: Michelle King and Kelly Thomson
Diversity is simply good for business. Companies with greater gender diversity in their leadership outperform their less diverse competitors, having higher returns on capital and credited with better employee engagement and retention. These companies have loyal customers, are more relevant to a...
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If Companies Want To Keep Black Employees They Need To Support Their Side Hustle - Rosanna Durruthy
The Great Resignation, has seen employees leaving their jobs at unprecedented rates. According to the US Labor Bureau in November 2021 alone, 4.5 million employees quit Reports by the online media publication The Plug states that workers across the U.S. are finding more reasons to leave their…
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How To Check Your Privilege - with Myisha T. Hill
Being unaware of people’s experiences of inequality like racism or sexism, often inadvertently and unwillingly leads to behaviors that are racist and sexist. We are simply blind to inequality. Being able to learn about inequality without ever having to experience it, is really the ultimate...
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Why more men than women have opportunities and are rewarded for being creative at work - Eve Rodsky
Today on the show my dear friend Eve Rodsky is joining us! Eve has been featured on the show before, with her New York Times best selling book, Fair Play and now Eve is here again with her new book, 'Unicorn Space', which is all about making time for your creative pursuits. As a researcher, I was...
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The Real Reason You Are Struggling To Hire Diverse Candidates - Michelle King and Kelly Thomson
This podcast is dedicated to the topic of hiring diverse talent whilst also looking at what businesses can do to really try and value difference. Research states that 46% of people’s experiences of inclusion at work are down to their manager’s behavior. So, 46% of your experiences of whether you...
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You are closer to being homeless than you think – Regina Jackson
As adults, if we have never experienced homelessness, it can be really tempting to turn away and not engage with the humanity of the situation. Sometimes it’s just too upsetting and we feel guilty or even embarrassed about our own comparative security. We need reminding of the importance of...
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Equality Won’t Be Achieved With The Passing Of Time: Why Younger Generations Hold The Least Progressive Views – with Michelle Harrison
I often get asked by people, surely gender equality will just be achieved in time? Aren’t we becoming more progressive? Won’t younger generations ensure we have greater equality because they hold more liberal views. The answer to all these questions is No. The belief that we will just achieve...
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10 DEI Lessons for 2022 with Michelle King and Kelly Thomson
Over the last four years we have spoken with so many incredible people from all walks of life about how to make a more diverse, equitable and inclusive world. During that time I have found there are some consistent lessons that people shared around what it really takes to build a workplace that...
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What you need to know about the future of leadership: Jennifer Jordan
As the entire world works to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the role of effective leadership has been brought into razor sharp focus. What people need now are leaders with empathy, compassion and an ability to show support, skills that women leaders tend to exhibit more than men. While it...
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Communication Agility: How to talk to anyone - Felicity Wingrove
If the pandemic has taught us anything it is that to collaborate either virtually or in person we need to learn how we can bridge our individual and cultural differences and work as one team regardless of our location. We need to create culturally inclusive environments. Culture includes the...
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How to stop hating your job - Dr Kathryn Owler
Have you heard of the 'Great Resignation' or the 'Big Quit'? It is an informal name for the widespread trend of a significant number of workers leaving their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. While most news articles are covering the 'Great Resignation' in relation to the United States, the...
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How to move from being a bystander to an upstander – Rohit Bhargava and Jennifer Brown
Recently a male colleague asked me what he could do to support women at work, and I told him to start by being an ally. Simply speaking up when someone makes a derogatory comment about women, even if it seems innocent enough, is how men can practice this. When one of his colleagues made a comment...
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The Status of Fatherhood – Gary Barker
Men’s ability to financially support their family is equated with their identity and self-worth. Living up to this requires that men have a job, conform to the 1950’s ideal worker image, and advance at work. This is the expectation we all hold for men, and it limits men’s freedom to explore their...
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The Wellbeing Case for DEI - Dr Marlette Jackson
Over the last two years health and wellbeing has become front and center in organisational life, thanks to the pandemic. We have all heard of the business case for DEI but what about the wellness case for DEI? It is becoming increasingly apparent that without compassionate, inclusive,...
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How To Deal With Burnout - Ashley Morgan
Both men and women are feeling even more burned out in 2021 than they were in 2020. The annual 'Women in the Workplace' report from McKinsey & Co. and LeanIn.Org found that the gap between women and men who say they are burned out has nearly doubled in the last year. Women in particular have…
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The Power of Pressure: How To Make Challenging Times Work For You - Dane Jensen
When we talk about pressure we usually conjure up negative images – being pressured into something, feeling the weight of pressure. Even the dictionary definition of “pressure” focuses on coercion and intimidation. And who could forget Queen and David Bowie singing about pressure being the force...
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Beer and Sexism: The Untold Story - Katie Muggli
When men align with other men who hold positions of power, they are better able to access the privilege associated with that power. This includes things like having direct access to high-profile people, job opportunities, high-profile assignments, and rewards at work. Homosocial behaviors provide...
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Creating Psychological Safety at Work - Minda Harts & Jon Hicks
As workplaces are now taking the steps to shift back to versions of ‘business as usual’, it is also a critical time and a golden opportunity for them to focus on the wellbeing and psychological safety of employees across their organisation. We see psychological safety in teams when members engage...
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How To Engage The Next Generation of ChangeMakers - Melissa Kilby
When I started out in my career, there were so many articles and news reports, events, training and speakers sharing how to engage and manage millennial workers. And over the years I have seen this same focus extend to Generation Z. Companies want to and need to engage the next generation, many…
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Publishing: The Devaluing of Difference - Rebekah Borucki
In the process of selling my first book, I spoke to several editors at major publishing houses. One editor revealed that she was thankful her workplace was “not gendered in any way.” In that moment, I realized how much we all take inequality for granted at work. This made me determined to find a...
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Roe Vs Wade: Kelly Thomson and Anna Cronin-Scott
Last week the supreme court in the United States decided by five to four to allow Texas to effectively ban abortions in the state despite the blatant disregard of the court’s own 1973 ruling legalizing abortion in US, Roe v Wade. United Nations human rights experts have called the new Texas...
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The Authority Gap - Mary Ann Sieghart
From a young age, we are taught what the appropriate behavior is for boys and girls. Through repeated exposure over the years we come to know how men and women are meant to behave. These beliefs are then used to make judgments about women at work. When women succeed in traditionally…
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Closing The Gender Gap in Innovation - Danielle Kayembe
When it comes to innovation, current approaches tend to adopt a male lens, by only considering the needs of men, or only engaging men in the design process. Consequently, many products we have today were never designed with women in mind. While there is increased attention on the gender gap in...
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Why It’s Time To Ditch Quotas: Dr Ted Sun
Between 2015 and 2020 there was a 107% increase in the number of people employed with the head of diversity job title, according to LinkedIn data. This global hiring trend is set to continue, as more businesses appreciate the fundamental importance, including to the bottom line of having more...
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The Friendship Gender Gap: Smiley Poswolsky
There is a loneliness epidemic, and it is affecting people from all ages. A recent study, conducted by the American Enterprise Institute, suggests that the proportion of people who can name six close friends has dropped from 55% to 27% since the 1990's and one in five single men say they do not...
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