Avoiding unintended consequences from diversity initiatives

How can organisations ensure the diversity initiatives they have put in place deliver real and sustainable change? This paper outlines how organisations can ensure they go beyond targets and avoid unintended consequences.

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Jill Miller, Senior Policy Adviser, Diversity and Inclusion, CIPD

Jill is Senior Policy Adviser for Diversity and Inclusion 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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