Date: Thursday 15th May 2025
Time: 8:30am – 10:00am
Topic: Inclusive Recruitment and Employee Engagement
Key Takeaways:
- Establish Inclusive Practices
Understand how to create recruitment processes that prioritise equity and reduce unconscious bias. - Broaden Talent Pools
Learn methods to attract diverse candidates by improving job advertising, employer branding, and outreach strategies. - Standardise Recruitment
Implement structured interview techniques and diverse hiring panels to ensure fairness and consistency. - Strengthen Onboarding and Retention
Develop onboarding processes and career development opportunities that enhance employee engagement and retention. - Evaluate and Improve
Use feedback and metrics to assess the effectiveness of inclusion initiatives and identify areas for improvement.
Joanne Lockwood
Discover the transformative power of empathy, understanding, and inclusivity with Joanne Lockwood. By connecting with her, you’ll create a thriving, empowering environment where everyone can excel. Expect to be inspired and guided towards fostering a truly inclusive culture within your organisation.
As you embark on this journey, Joanne’s passion and expertise will unlock your organisation’s full potential, making a profound impact on both individuals and the collective success.
Sally Isaacs
Sally is a Partner in Evershed Sutherland’s Employment Group. She has considerable experience of employment tribunal litigation and specialises in discrimination law, with particular emphasis on equal pay. Sally has been responsible for a number of high profile equal pay cases over the last 15 years including defending mass equal pay litigation. Sally’s contentious work also includes unfair dismissal, industrial relations issues and breach of contract claims.
Sally qualified in 2000, and has specialised in employment law her whole career. In addition to her contentious practice, Sally also gives advice in relation to non-contentious matters such as proposals to change terms and conditions of employment, strategic management of industrial relations issues, implementing new pay and grading structures, gender pay gap reporting and equal pay audits.
Sally has particular knowledge of the public sector (particularly local government and education) and has been recognised by the Legal 500.