Darren Harris is a diversity speaker who hosts and facilitates diversity sessions for organisations that have formed forums, groups and networks for people with disabilities.

Diversity speakers can better equip your workforce to:

• Build disability confidence
• Think outside the tick box
• Disclose a disability
• Request reasonable adjustments
• recruit employees from a wider talent poo
• retain employees by strengthen employee loyalty
• progress
• reflect the customers it serves
• boosting creativity and enabling more effective problem solving.
• valuing difference
• Seeking out different perspectives
• looking through lens
• Celebrating Difference
• Communicating The Challenge
• Engaging – It’s Everyone’s Problem
• Speaking up when you can’t stand up
• reduce significant delays when applying for Access to Work

Hiring managers, though, tend to hire people with similar attributes to them, which leads to homogeneous teams and culture. This is mostly down to the fact that people are often attracted by similarities, which automatically creates a feeling of common understanding and belonging. But, having recognised diversity’s blessings, recruiters have started to combat bias and strive for heterogeneity when they hire people.

Dates for your Diary
National Inclusion Week – tbc
International Day of Disabled Persons 3rd December 2021

What Clients Say

“Darren inspired the audience to see the advantages of being a minority. The feedback received has been extremely positive.”

Amina Hassan, Chair employee disability group, Financial Ombudsman Service