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Diverse Leaders
Championing for a diverse and inclusive built environment
Diverse Leaders celebrates and supports diversity and inclusion in the built environment industry, championing for a representative sector and to overcome chronic discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, age and socio-economic background to create a strengthened, resilient and representative workforce.
Diversity and inclusion are multifaceted issues that need to be tackled holistically to better engage and support all underrepresented groups within our industry. To do this, we believe we also need to address honestly and head-on the concerns and needs of people from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds and increase equity for all.
We launched the Diverse Leaders Pledge in October 2020 in collaboration with fourteen organisations dedicated to making the built environment sector more representative through recruitment, progression and advocacy. The pledge enables businesses to commit to measurable goals over the coming years that we believe will catalyse change, enabling engagement, action and progress around diversity and inclusion within the workplace, fostering collaboration across the built environment industry as a whole.
In 2021, research on diversity and inclusion brings together statistics from each sector of the built environment and provides a complete picture of the current state of the industry and the steps being taken to make real change.
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Diverse Leaders Pledge - Free to sign up
The built environment industry has identified the need to overcome chronic discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, age and socio-economic background to create a strengthened, resilient and representative workforce.
We are inviting you as industry leaders to join us in making a pledge to help make the built environment sector more representative through the recruitment, progression and advocacy of diverse people.
It is free to sign up to our Diverse Leaders Pledge to make it available to everyone, organisations big and small, no matter the budget.
We are inviting you as industry leaders to join us in making a pledge to help make the built environment sector more representative through the recruitment, progression and advocacy of diverse people.
It is free to sign up to our Diverse Leaders Pledge to make it available to everyone, organisations big and small, no matter the budget.
Resources
Handbooks
Networks
- Future of London Speaker Pledge
- Future of London Speaker Diversity Network
- BAME in Property
- Urbanist Platform
- Women in Planning
- DiverseCity Surveyors
- Real Estate Balance
- Black people in Construction
- BAME Planners Network @BAMEPlanners (Twitter)
Government strategy and terminology
- Government Policy paper - Diversity and inclusion strategy 2019 to 2023
- Why diversity matters – McKinsey
- Why diverse terms are smarter – Harvard Business Review
- Gender Diversity and Corporate Performance - Credit Suisse
- Breaking bias – NeuroLeadership Institute
- UK population by ethnicity: this includes links to: Population of England and Wales, Regional ethnic diversity and Demographics
Recruitment tools
- Inclusive Employers Toolkit
- Black Training and Enterprise Group – Moving on up
- Gender bias text checker
Screening & Work Samples
- https://www.beapplied.com/form/debiased-using-behavioural-science-to-assess-candidates-objectively
- https://www.beapplied.com/form/hiring-the-best-how-to-create-work-sample-questions
Interviewing
- https://www.beapplied.com/form/best-practices-for-interviewing-without-bias
- https://www.beapplied.com/resources-interview-guide
Sourcing & Writing Job Descriptions
- https://www.beapplied.com/bundle/job-descriptions-ads
- https://www.beapplied.com/bundle/sourcing-candidates
Diversity and Change management
Data Driven
Collaborators
LB Waltham Forest Principal Policy Planner
and Co-founder Women in Planning and Planning Policy and design team leader
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