Empathy, Inclusion & Commerciality: Mary FitzPatrick, Global Head of D&I, Rolls-Royce

<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Mary describes her experiences in building inclusion across sectors, from television to technology. Discussing the links between inclusion, commerciality and ESG, Mary describes why the work, and measuring its outcomes, is important to investors and customers – alongside employees.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Sharing her personal connection to neurodiversity, Mary provides thoughts on how to ensure a neurodiverse colleague that joins, also stays, and gives examples of inclusion strategies in gender representation and social mobility.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Mary advocates that inclusion is embedded in every element of a business – that an inclusion lens is always applied – and calls on us to be courageous in ensuring this happens. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Topics in Mary’s episode: </span></p> <ul> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Female representation in TV</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Navigating uncomfortable conversations with storytelling</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">ESG and the future of commercial business: the role of inclusion and empathy</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Measuring inclusion to feed into investor reporting</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt;">Neurodiversity, masking and belonging</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">System change through talent attraction</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Applying an inclusion lens in all elements of business</span></li> </ul> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Thank you to our sponsor for this week's episode, The Talent Keeper Specialists. Their brilliant podcast, COMEBACK COACH is the podcast for people coming back from maternity and other work breaks recommended