In this episode, Deloitte's Richard Odufisan shares insights on the importance of celebrating multi-racial and multi-cultural history. Richard shares the innovative initiatives and ways to achieve a cohesive multi-racial workforce. He shares how to "listen" to your employees to learn the challenges they face as a specific race and create allyship in the workplace and community. He delves deeper into how you can collaboratively drive positive change to achieve DEI goals while constantly learning and improving as an organisation. And most importantly, he shares practical insights on how to continually measure organisational progress towards achieving inclusive workplaces for all races, especially for black employees.
For Richard, Black History is about celebrating culture, background and identity and recognising the incredible contributions that black people have made across the world.
About Richard,
Richard is a Manager in the Deloitte Consulting Practice and a leader in the firm's Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing agenda, holding multiple roles as an Inclusion Lead, Mental Health Champion and Wellbeing Champion. He has coordinated and supported numerous cross-firm and external initiatives to drive the conversation and build greater organisational cultural change. As a member of a firmwide Steering Group, he is working with the firm's leadership to design and implement Deloitte's Black Action Plan. He is also the co-chair of the firm's Black Network, the newest of Deloitte's twelve Diversity Networks. At the heart of his message is the aim that through diversity and inclusion, we celebrate our differences, and no one gets left behind or forgotten.
