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, former Senior Policy Adviser, Diversity and Inclusion, CIPD

Jill's work focused on the areas of gender, age and neurodiversity and she led work on race inclusion, managing drug and alcohol misuse at work, and supporting employees through fertility treatment, pregnancy loss and still birth. 

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