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Another month, another Prime Minister. Dr Melissa Carr and Dr Miriam Marra – Directors of EDI at Henley – explore the significance of the UK’s first South Asian and Hindu leader.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, women have been more likely than men to become economically inactive. Calling women to work and to jobs of relevance is not just a GDP-booster solution, as flexibility in the work culture may bring to more than just a reduction in the gender participation gap and an increase in national wealth.

The COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and shift to remote working has had a significant impact on organisations’ attitudes towards a shorter working week, new research from Henley Business School has revealed.

In this episode, Dr Naeema Pasha and Dr Anne Dibley share insights into what characterises Gen Z; how business leaders can harness their entrepreneurial spirit in the workplace; and what we can learn from them.

In this episode Dr Caroline Rook, Assistant Professor in Leadership, reviews the impact of digital technology on our daily lives. She then offers her method for identifying the warning signs of stress in colleagues and in ourselves.

Working from home has become part and parcel of life during the pandemic, but will the homeworking trend continue? Dr Miriam Marra discusses the future world of work in part two of two in her series on technology and hybrid working.

New research finds companies that have targeted measures specifically to support ethnic minorities record higher revenue and greater staff output and loyalty. Despite this, racial discrimination is still rife in British business with Black employees found to be worst off.

Henley Business School published new research into racial equity in UK businesses. Our aim was to understand the reasons racial inequity still exists in workplaces, and the barriers and challenges to overcoming it.

In the last 20 years, we have worked hard to design leadership learning that delivers both intellectual and emotional impact. For a while, this has all worked very well but then we started to become aware of the impact of the digital society on leadership populations around the world plus the pandemic hit. This development has given us the permission to challenge the sacred cows of learning and to experiment with new ways of doing things to work out how we build communities of leaders virtually.