Building Inclusion As A Strategy For Business Success

I am delighted to be beaming in a dynamic leader,  United Kingdom, Mrs. Catherine Hamilton, an author, and entrepreneur  and dynamic mom. Catherine works across the business sectors designing and facilitating learning interventions to enable sustainable behavioural change. With over 20 years in the oil and gas industry initially, she has significant experience of working as an internal consultant on developing diversity and inclusion strategies, local and global interventions, raising awareness and understanding of dignity at work and the impact of our behaviours.  The move from Head of Inclusion & Diversity at National Grid to a freelancer, has enabled Catherine to broaden her client base over the last 11 years, whilst deepening her focus on inclusion, and particularly around bias and inappropriate workplace behaviours. Catherine bases her development ideas on real scenarios and combines this with innovative learning solutions to provide accessible and memorable learning whilst meeting personal and business needs.  Catherine is passionate about developing others and supporting them to become more aware of their own behaviours and the impact this has on others, through both 1:1 coaching and group workshops. Catherine has an honours degree in Sociology, an NVQ IV in Learning & Development and a Business Coaching Diploma. She is MBTI and SDI trained and an Executive coach for the senior civil service.  In this episode we discussed her big career pivots juggling her top job with family, her leadership pivots and her love for teaching inclusion. We had a great teachable moment where she described how make an organization more inclusive in business from the beginning. Of course had some fun moments discussing self-care as well as all that jazz in life that make it so exciting! One big Golden Nuggets from Catherine: “Challenge and discomfort are how we grow”.  Enjoy this episode! To have your questions and stories featured in future episodes, please send us a message at https://ireniaroussel.org. Remember to subscribe, rate and review this podcast on Apple Podcasts or send us a direct message with your feedback. Please do share this episode with a friend since this may be just the positive conversational blessing they have been waiting for to kickstart their career/entrepreneurialourney.  Let us collectively spread this knowledge across Canada and around the world. My wish for you is to find your new vibes in our new super normal.  I am your host, Irenia Roussel. All aspects of production and artwork was developed and implemented by Irenia Roussel.