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Is diversity and inclusion bad for business? | LSE Festival Skills

Hosted by LSE Festival: Power and Politics

Online public event

Speaker

Dr Grace Lordan

Dr Grace Lordan

Chair

Dr Jasmine Virhia

Recently there has been a surge in popular voices in social media stating that DEI is bad for business. There has also been a significant reduction in investment in diversity and inclusion by some of the world’s largest firms.

In this talk Grace Lordan will outline the logic behind these arguments, along with the conditions that cause diversity to be problematic for business growth. In contrast, Grace will demonstrate the conditions that are needed to reap the rewards from diversity in business.

The session will also cover key insights into inclusive leadership and discuss just why this leadership style is so valuable when interacted with artificial intelligence in the workplace.

Meet our speaker and chair

Grace Lordan is the Founding Director of The Inclusion Initiative and Associate Professor at LSE. Grace’s research focuses on inclusive leadership, women’s progress in the workplace, the future of work, productivity through diversity and individual success. Her academic writings have been published in top international journals and she has written for the Financial Times, Fortune, Fast Company, MIT Sloan Management Review, Reuters and Harvard Business Review. Grace is a regular speaker and advisor to blue chip finance and technology firms. Think Big, Take Small Steps and Build the Future you Want, is her first book, and you can find out more about Grace on her website.

Jasmine Virhia is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science at The Inclusion Initiative. At TII she contributes to the Inclusive Leaders and Growth and Governance Hub. Jasmine has an academic background in Cognitive Neuroscience and is interested in how individuals and firms make decisions. In particular, she is passionate about understanding how individuals form and express their identities at social, psychological and neuroscientific levels of analysis. She is currently conducting qualitative research to explore how the future of work will look across financial and professional services post Covid-19, focussing on flexibility, productivity and well-being. Alongside this, Jasmine is investigating how to create inclusive work cultures and how firms can measure sustainable change.

More about the event

This event is part of the LSE Festival: Power and Politics running from Monday 10 to Saturday 15 June 2024, with a series of events exploring how power and politics shape our world. Booking for all Festival events will open on Monday 13 May.  

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