Author of THE POWER OF DIFFERENCE; Founder of DIVERSITY BY DESIGN (diversitybydesign.co.uk)
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Just stumbled across this great speech from the Rob Reiner film "The American President". Set aside the US exceptionalism and the zero carbon bits. At the centre of it is a great articulation of the importance of free speech (RIP brilliant Rob Reiner)piped.video/watch?v=WKTZice8…
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Scottish Affairs magazine commissioned me to write about academic freedom - this is the (quite long!) article. Please do comment and share.
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@AuthorsMission podcast with Danielle H who told me "listeners particularly resonates with your perspective on how diversity isn't about getting everyone to agree, but about recognizing differences and using them to collaborate toward common objectives.." piped.video/PA2BoMC5GQA
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Introducing our new podcast: “Fearless Diversity” with Rachel Cashman and me! This is the candid podcast that tackles the dilemmas that leaders face every day. We have the conversations you want to have. Apple podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… Spotify lnkd.in/ecrUkae3
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This is one of the best examples I've seen of a comic wrestling comedically with a news story. @JoshJohnson dealing with incredible wit, sophistication, insight and nuance with the Mangione shooting. Never let's the audience off the hook. piped.video/watch?v=HZl_ZBzv…
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In The Sunday Times in 1994 and the Mail on Sunday magazine Night & Day in 1996. How kind he was and how funny…...
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What you got wrong Carly-May was that you abused those who hold a different view in a way that was entirely inappropriate for someone who works for an MP. MPs represent their whole community. See my letter below to @lloyd_rm - your boss.
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As @lloyd_rm said in a recent tweet about remembering Queen Elizabeth II, he "represents the people of Kemptown and Peacehaven". So I wrote this to him today to ask about whether he will also represent the breadth of views of his constituents on gender and sex.
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Delighted to be in The Sunday Times Culture today about my Fringe show and the state of comedy when I last performed and now. Come Along!!
"I’m proud to be a politically correct comedian, but I’m not woke"
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@BizBookAwardUK It’s like school, they give you a certificate just for being nominated! So that “everyone is a winner”!!!
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A conversation with @HumanGayMale on, among other things, the profound need we have at the moment for dialogue towards solutions and not just shouting and finger pointing - and why we have got to that.
@jk_rowling @bindelj
@HJoyceGender @Pravina_R
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Forbes just called my book " a powerful fresh perspective in the diversity field” …. Gosh!
Here’s the full piece by @profkjmoore
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My problem with Stonewall isn't they lobby on trans issues, it’s that they split the LGB&T community and opinion generally by turning their back on how we achieved equal marriage via civil partnerships..We found solutions through talking, not refusing to piped.video/nSGbojbs1R8
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On @GBNEWS on how people are scared to share their opinions at work (YouGOv poll) - piped.video/GYGnyxof7BU
@EamonnHolmes @IsabelWebster_
On @GBNEWS reacting to Oliver Dowden calling out woke culture - he has a cheek! piped.video/PZ5p4aY_aDo
Went on @GBNEWS this morning to explain how standing in opposite corners of the room and calling each other ‘bigot' does nothing to find good solutions. Not least it's not how we won L&G equality and gay marriage.
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Buy the book here!lnkd.in/dB2m4ps4
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This is a beautiful Iranian short film about love and memory and generosity and…….a couple of comments down someone explains the Iranian tradition of visiting your loved one’s grave
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This is my favourite REM sings The Wombles. 😆😆piped.video/MSzPjeDJ_2s
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I made a short video about the arguments in the book. The Power of Difference. You can buy it here: lnkd.in/dB2m4ps4
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"Fanshawe is practically inclusion royalty” says The Sunday Times in a piece about my book The Power of Difference. Despite the headline the book is far wider. It’s a "crash course in working together across differences”.
thetimes.co.uk/article/stone…
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Got my first review on Amazon which ends …."This is probably the most important book on D&I published to date. It should be required reading for every D&I practitioner, social justice activist and indeed anyone concerned for a better, fairer world”. Many thanks
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The Power of Difference has gone to NUMBER ONE in Interviewing & Recruitment today!!! Wow!
@KoganPageHR
Lovely messages/texts etc pouring in. So kind of everyone.
Buy it here lnkd.in/dB2m4ps4
This is what the brilliant Prof Iris Bohnet @wapppHBS said about it:
ALT Harvard’s Prof Iris Bohnet’s view
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My piece on the book for Lesbian and Gay News "an argument for conversation.. for finding common ground rather than demanding obedience to a single view, for real diversity and true inclusion where spaces are safe for disagreement not from disagreement” lesbianandgaynews.com/2021/1…
ALT Kenji Yoshino - great American professor
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Two more amazing endorsements from @Cheese_Peter who has been top dog in HR etc for a very long time. And from @DavidMGann of @OxfordSBS one of the UK’s innovation gurus. So happy. Publication date TOMORROW!!!!
ALT David Gann Prof at Saïd Biz School
ALT CIPD chief
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Facilitated great session today with @RoyalPapworth. They worked through the complexities of three real diversity scenarios real commitment to reach fair and well founded solutions. So it's great to have received this endorsement for my book from their CEO @stephenposeynhs
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Absolutely Ruth. Wise as ever #thepowerofdifference
Seems like saying the "wrong" thing leads to vilification and calls for you to be sacked, stalked, or chucked out of your job. This is the very building block of totalitarianism. Honest debate does not including hatred of those holding a different view from yours.
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Hey.. I have never been part of Black Friday before … the publishers are offering a deal on my book - 35% DISCOUNT!! Go here koganpage.com/product/the-po… ....and enter SALE35 at the checkout.
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Having been involved in social housing over the years (Board of @Housing21 for six years and now Chairman of @HousingHexagon) I am so happy that one of the most senior CEOs and great diversity advocate @nanda_geeta has endorsed the book so generously.
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@kenji_yoshino the author of the very insightful and useful concept of “covering” (deloitte.com/content/dam/Del…) has given The Power of Difference exactly the kind of you’ll agree and disagree but it’s really useful kind of endorsement that is so on point about the need for discussion
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Amazing endorsement for The Power of Difference from one of the most original researchers and writers about diversity, the Academic Dean of Harvard Kennedy School @wapppHKS. @AmyCEdmondson @hrmagazine @CBItweets
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The President of the CBI has kindly said “The Power of Difference lays out practical ways for all of us in business to attract and engage the widest range of talent. I urge leaders to read it and act on its solutions.” Lord Karan Bilimoria Founder of Cobra Beer @CBItweets
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Delighted to say that advice sales for The Power of Difference have made it Number 1 on Amazon’s list of “Interviewing & Recruitment”
@emmahaslett @mikebutcher @_DanMatthews_ @hannahprevett @MatthewGwyther @CockettRichard @iRowan
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Thanks to everyone who is buying the Power of Difference.
It’s not out till December 3rd but you’ve already made it "12 in Interviewing & Recruitment” on Amazon. Thanks
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Very excited… the cover of my new book. The quote on the top is from the amazing Prof @AmyCEdmondson (author of The Fearless Organisation) She has been kind enough to call it “The most compelling book on diversity I’ve ever read.”
You can buy it here amazon.co.uk/Power-Differenc…
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More thanks to @hrmagazine for voting me Number 4 Most Influential Thinker 2021 last night. Very honoured.
Thanks to HR Mag for letting me write on how important it is for organisations to create safe spaces FOR disagreement and dissent NOT FROM them. My book The Power of Difference Will be out in December amazon.co.uk/Power-Differenc…
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A couple of years ago I was delighted to be asked to be a subject at the Worthing Portrait of the Year. It’s on Friday 22nd October 2021 at St. Paul’s Worthing. Artist entry is £10. Deadline is midday 11th June. Email wpaoty@gmail.com
This was the rather serious result!
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Jonathan Pie gives Trump the send-off he deserves with one last epic rant….. This is just fabulously cathartic….
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Well… this is pretty damning… A Republican not voting for Trump piped.video/watch?v=-c1pY7Rx…
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Went for Republican nomination in 2016. Republican candidate Senate seat in California, Carly Fiorina endorses Jo Biden…. Because Trump "has failed in his leadership” In a crisis a leader must "See the truth, speak the truth and act on the truth” piped.video/watch?v=k4BP1sy6…
This is quite a woman - the one who told Trump to let her finish her question. She quotes James Baldwin “I can’t be a pessimist because I am alive”. Inspiration on a Saturday piped.video/watch?v=jv2lR61A…
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I only just caught up with this.. because I am such an old old fart (it just won the Novello) … but @jamiecullum this is the most amazing bloody beautiful song .. thanks so much for tears on a Friday … WOW !! piped.video/watch?v=WEk4eXeh…
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Are the dancers with Petula Clark in Downtown (the first song) actually the campest thing you ever ever saw in your entire life??
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This is entirely gorgeous. Dame Dench telling off Tennant and Sheen. Classic! piped.video/watch?v=EpdCVAmt…
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“If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees… then you have a serious problem’. Toni Morrison (again!)
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Toni Morrison is just such a majestic speaker. This answer just gets better and better piped.video/watch?v=-Kgq3F8w…
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Well… this cheered me up. "The Lyin’ King tweets tonight”
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this is just great. @NYGovCuomo just taking down Trump followed by @briantylercohen just lamming into him. Best pre bedtime rant!!
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