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🚨 Keir Starmer's cabinet highlights a growing recognition of the importance of lived experience in leadership roles. 🚨 A diverse team brings a range of perspectives, ensuring that decision-making is more inclusive and reflective of the population it serves.  Incorporating lived experience into leadership and decision-making processes is crucial for several reasons: 🔹 Empathy-Driven Policies: Leaders with firsthand experiences are better equipped to create policies that effectively address the needs of the community. 🔹 Diverse Perspectives: A variety of backgrounds and experiences foster innovative solutions and prevent groupthink. 🔹 Authentic Representation: Ensuring that leadership includes voices from different walks of life enhances trust and engagement within the community. Organisations across all sectors can learn from this approach. By valuing and integrating lived experience, they can create more effective, empathetic, and sustainable strategies. Let's take this as a call to action: ensure that voices with lived experience are not just heard but actively involved in decision-making processes. This is not restricted to the people we employ, but the citizens, customers, clients, patients, carers and partners we serve and work with. This is how we can build more inclusive and responsive organisations. #Leadership #Diversity #LivedExperience #InclusiveGovernance #OrganisationalStrategy #StakeholderEngagament #DemocraticDecisionMaking Andy Wright | Bruce Whitear | Debbie Morrow (MCIPD) | Edward Parkes | NICVA (Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action) | FSB Northern Ireland | Joe McCoubrey | Clare Sinanan | HICO Passionate about public service | John Hallett | Vickie Deeks (deaf) | Paul Parsons | Caroline Latta

Today, we celebrate the birth of a visionary leader, Andrew Young, whose life’s work continues to inspire leaders around the globe. As we honor his 91st birthday, let’s reflect on his enduring impact on leadership, civil rights, and global development. Andrew Young’s journey from a pastor to a U.S. Congressman, and later, Mayor of Atlanta, showcases his unwavering commitment to social justice and economic equality. His leadership style, characterized by empathy and a collaborative spirit, has been a guiding light for many in positions of power. Young’s ability to navigate complex political landscapes while maintaining his moral compass serves as a benchmark for today’s leaders. His contributions to the civil rights movement and his advocacy for human rights have not only shaped our society but have also provided a blueprint for responsible and ethical leadership in business. Young’s work reminds us that the core of successful leadership lies in serving others and championing the greater good. As business leaders, we are tasked with making decisions that affect the lives of many. Let’s take this moment to recommit ourselves to the principles that Andrew Young embodies: integrity, service, and transformational change. In doing so, we honor his legacy and continue to build a world that is just, equitable, and prosperous for all. #AndrewYoung91 #LeadershipLegacy #EthicalLeadership #GlobalImpact #BusinessIntegrity #SocialJusticeInBusiness #InspirationalLeaders #HappyBirthdayAndrewYoung

When diversity executives thrive, the DEI initiative produces results for the business. So we need our CDOs to succeed. Each one of us can help that happen. https://lnkd.in/g8ss2_9E

Over the past 16 years, 12 of them were governed by Democratic leadership. Despite their promises of progress, many critical issues remain unresolved. From economic struggles to divisive policies, the failures of the Democratic Party have left a significant impact on the nation. The party’s approach has often been criticized for deepening political divides rather than fostering unity and effective governance. Kamala Harris, a key figure in the current administration and a close student of Joe Biden, has also come under scrutiny. As Vice President, her track record has been less than impressive, raising concerns about her ability to step into the presidency if needed. Leadership requires not just rhetoric but tangible results, and the past 12 years have shown that there is much work left to be done. The American people deserve more from their leaders—accountability, competence, and above all, a commitment to truly serving the nation’s best interests. It’s time for a critical evaluation of what has been done and what needs to change moving forward.

FPSA Members - Our next book club meet-up is September 20th at 11:30 AM ET / 10:30 AM CT – Dare to Lead https://lnkd.in/eMVzSAun Join the FPSA Women's Alliance Book Club Chair, Stacy Johnson (Hoosier Feeder), to catch up and discuss the courage involved in being a leader. “The only thing I know for sure after all of this research is that if you’re going to dare greatly, you’re going to get your ass kicked at some point. If you choose courage, you will absolutely know failure, disappointment, setback, even heartbreak. That’s why we call it courage. That’s why it’s so rare.” LEARN MORE: https://lnkd.in/eMVzSAun

Preparing for next European Leader workshop. The discussion is - how can we work with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in a really pragmatic way? I found this in Harvard business review. Please share your thoughts!!!

Pivot Point: Propelling DEI Forward - A Playbook for a holistic, transformative, and far-right resistant business aligned framework for integrating DEI into business success. This playbook suggests a leader-led approach, practical and pragmatic in application, interwoven into business strategies, and extremely focused on organizational outcomes. DEI is a pivotal lens that must be applied to all aspects of an organization's products and services if it is to delight a consumer and customer base that increasingly global and multicultural. As businesses seek to growth their businesses and open new outlines, they will be held accountable by savvy regulators and governmental officials who can determine your "license to operate. For those far right pundits locked into the short term and homogeneous framworkworks, do so at your business's peril. DEI is here to stay. Feel free to comment and share my playbook for holistic and sustainable DEI as a growing factor and business success. Savvy leaders must learn how to nail the practices and behaviors key to sustainability!

"New hurdles and opposition to diversity programs have pushed some business leaders to approach their D.E.I. initiatives 'in a less in your face way,” while others are doubling down.' Read more from The New York Times, below. #deistrategy #diversityequityinclusion #staythecourse

Up to Us empowers young leaders to drive change in fiscal policy and civic engagement. Explore our suite of opportunities and become a catalyst for fiscal responsibility. Read our latest blog post to learn how you can be a part of a community that's not just talking about change but actively driving it. 💪 https://lnkd.in/eAcbjSZB #FiscalLeadership #ChangeMakers #FiscalPolicy

Which leadership style is best for lawyers heading practices and other law-centric organizations? Watch the full video on YouTube and learn about leadership skills from Ms. Anna Mutavati (Lawyer and Country Director of UN Women) Watch here- https://lnkd.in/eDmn299x or read the article here- https://lnkd.in/eNCPtHbe