In this episode, we hear from Derek Bishop, co-founder, and director at the award-winning Culture Consultancy. As an expert on culture change, leadership and human behaviour, Derek is considered one of the leading thinkers on creating high-performance cultures.

Listen in as he explains in this trailer as to why we need more than active sponsorship to create a truly diverse and inclusive leadership.

Listen to the entire episode as he unpacks the differences between an ally versus that of a sponsor, reveals some of the harrowing stats such as around 54,000 women a year losing their jobs simply for getting pregnant, as well as 390,000 working mums having experienced negativity or potentially discriminatory treatment at work each year. Combined those stats with an additional c 900,000 women in the UK that have  quit their job due to the menopause…

Derek also shares further insights as to how businesses can really unlock their full potential for growth through their people and teams – addressing and knocking down some of those stark issues mentioned above.