While there's no ‘silver bullet’ to make an organisation more diverse and inclusive, steps can be taken to move in the right direction. By looking at organisational change and diversity programmes over the past 20 years, this article reveals how inclusive talent management and diversity initiatives can make an impact.

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Jill Miller, Policy Adviser, Diversity and Inclusion

Jill is Senior Policy Adviser for Inclusion and Diversity at the CIPD. Her work focuses on the areas of gender, age and neurodiversity and she has recently led work on race inclusion, managing drug and alcohol misuse at work, and supporting employees through fertility treatment, pregnancy loss and still birth. Earlier in her career, Jill specialised in small business growth through good people management and employee wellbeing.

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