About this event
Join us for an evening of insight, inspiration, and impact!
SEL Festive Event: An inspiring, interactive evening tackling workplace biases head-on! Discover success stories, share insights, and gain practical tools to create a truly inclusive and vibrant workplace. Let’s celebrate diversity, drive change, and make our workplaces better for everyone.
This festive season, let’s come together to address real issues within our workplaces and find practical ways to ensure every employee feels valued, supported, and understood. Our theme, “Overcoming discrimination and biases towards protected characteristics,” is more than just a conversation starter—it’s a call to action.
- Does your organisation fully support protected characteristics, or is it just lip service?
- Does your managers know how to champion inclusivity for all, from neurodiverse individuals to other intersectional identities?
- Are we truly tapping into the diverse talents and perspectives of our workforce?
This event offers a chance to share stories, learn from robust examples of workplace inclusion, and take away ideas to foster real, lasting change.
We’ll explore questions like:
- What’s working well?
- Where do we have room for improvement?
- Who needs to listen—and how can we encourage them to do so?
Why Attend?
Engage in thought-provoking discussions with peers and experts on intersectionality, neurodiversity, and building inclusive practices.
Hear inspiring success stories and real challenges, both crucial to our understanding.
Enjoy a festive quiz and the chance to network with like-minded professionals.
This interactive event will be filled with golden nuggets of insight. Whether you’re looking to sharpen your diversity strategy, or you have a manager who would benefit from attending. Bring them along for an evening of learning, reflection, and festive fun!
We look forward to welcoming you as we build a more inclusive workplace for everyone.
This event will be held at Lower Deck, Greenwich Students’ Union, Dreadnought building, Greenwich, London SE10 9HU.
About the speaker
Royston John worked as a senior manager across local government for over 2 decades before becoming a Business Coach and Management Consultant, which has continued for over 20 years now. The breadth of his experience includes human resources, finance, performance management, project management and service reviews; identifying and solving complex organisational, operational, technical and logistic problems with creativity, innovation and confidence; public speaking, setting up and managing staff groups and organising conferences.
Royston also has 20 years’ experience as an EDI facilitator and adviser. Activities include adviser to a Mayor and Cabinet on increasing black staff in employment; supporting organisations become anti-racist organisations; advising HR Directors on race and diversity matters; with Metropolitan Police reducing racial disparity; with Bristol Police and community increasing racial harmony in the city.
In the 20 years of delivering coaching and mentoring Royston has supported clients both in, and out of, the working environment. These include chief executives, executive directors, senior and middle managers. Sectors include Business, Health, Housing, Social services; local government. Appraising and supporting executives and senior managers through leadership and management development programmes; policy/statutory compliance changes, to enable organisation financial and operational integrity, with a speciality in supporting cultural transition and professional integration. Achievements range from quality of life to bottom line objectives. Other skills include mediation and investigation at individual and organisational level.
Royston has a degree in Management Development and Social Responsibilities, the Institute of Leadership Management Level 7 Certificate in Executive Coaching & Mentoring, member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a graduate of Common Purpose. Work includes British Council management development initiative working collaboratively with 19 African countries.
Please note:
- Reminder emails will be sent to you the day before, with a further reminder on the day of the event.
- Photography and video production may be taking place at the event, and these images may be used in the CIPD newsletters.
- By attending the event, you are giving consent for your image to be used on any CIPD promotional materials.
- As we are supplying refreshments, if you can no longer attend, please cancel your place either on Eventbrite, or by responding to the confirmation email.
- This event may include an external speaker who has prepared their own presentation. Any views or opinions expressed by the speaker are their own and do not reflect those of the CIPD.
- Please note that refunds for CIPD non-member tickets will only be available until seven days prior to the event, any cancelled tickets after this will not receive a refund.
- If you require any reasonable adjustments to enhance your experience, please get in contact with us by responding to this email and we will do our best to accommodate.
