“What’s Gone Wrong With EDI, And How Can Leaders Can Fix It?” 

Wednesday 14th May 2025 –  18.00 for 18.30 start  at The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists’ Hall, 39a, Bartholomew Close. EC1A 7JN

Simon Fanshawe OBE, Rector of Edinburgh University, partner in Diversity by Design

Nelarine Cornelius,  Associate Dean, People Culture, and Inclusion, Queen Mary University 

Efforts by organisations to promote diversity and inclusion are falling into disrepute with many senior leaders because they are not delivering value to staff, customers, and shareholders.  Leaders generally want to tackle discrimination and open-up opportunity in their companies, but the work has itself proved politically charged and potentially divisive.

Many leaders want EDI to be taken off the political football pitch. It has become caught between an ‘anti-woke’ gang who want to tear the whole edifice down and self-described ‘progressives’, who want to impose rules on their colleagues in the name of EDI that can seem dogmatic, and (to some) frankly daft. The result of that is that diversity is losing credibility in the eyes of too many people.

The panel will chew these issues over with the audience and ask How Do We Reset so that EDI delivers lasting value?

Cost £30 per person – open event to Livery members and guests. Please book below