Employers For Change are one of the biggest advocates for hiring people with disabilities in Ireland. By giving advice and guidance to its employers on hiring people with disabilities, hosting information resources on its website, providing awareness training and maintaining links with employers who can employ people with disabilities, the programme has come across more … Continue reading What does your hiring policy say about you?

Family carers are often forgotten about in terms of advocating for people in the Diversity and Inclusion area. However, Count On Us Recruitment was started by Fiona O'Neill, after her own experiences trying to find employment as a Family Carer, while sticking to the guidelines. The company now works with family carers to provide mentoring … Continue reading Count On Us Recruitment – providing mentoring to family carers and matching them to empathetic employers

Hackathons are back! I was delighted to be asked to be a mentor for Techstars Start-up Weekend Dublin. The event, which is taking place in Accenture Song from the 24th to the 26th of March, is aimed at women who are interested in starting a business or being part of a team that will create … Continue reading Techstars Startup Weekend Women Dublin is back!

In 2023, The Dyslexia Assocation of Ireland, with funding from The Toy Show Appeal, lauched The Dyslexia Hub, a hub of information for young people and their parents or guardians to learn more about dyslexia and empowering them to understand the condition, in addition to providing information on technologies that could aid them and how … Continue reading The Dyslexia Hub – A hub for people to learn more about dyslexia by providing young people and parents with accessible information

Loretta Dignam created The Menopause Hub in 2018, after going through her own menopause and realising the lack of support and information women receive about the process. Loretta and her team have now developed the company providing clinics for women of all ages experiencing menopause, workplace training and advocating for women experiencing menopause. The company … Continue reading The Menopause Hub – Helping women of all ages experiencing menopause and training employers on how to support these women

Launched in 2021, Sinead Ryan saw the need for Little fitness after a chance encounter with a pair of brothers who were living in temporary housing and joined one of her fitness classes. She envisioned a programme that would bring primary-age children from homeless families together to learn about their bodies, health, and nutrition, and … Continue reading Little Fitness – An inclusive programme for all children and families living in emergency accommodation, or socially disadvantaged

Launched in 2022, Pauline Kwasniak and Rajat Maheshwari conducted research with  corporate CSR and social ambition managers and then reached out to not-for-profits to find out if there was a better solution for for-profit companies that match your organisation with verified charitable projects and reputable charities that make a tangible social impact in their communities. … Continue reading Finedeeds – Creating a ripple effect of goodness for corporations, their employees, donors, and nonprofits

According to the most recent data, almost half (47%) of all companies surveyed by the CIPD in the UK don't have a Diversity and Inclusion Policy. There's been so much written about ChatGPT lately I thought 'what if I asked it to create a Diversity and Inclusion Policy for a large organisation?' Here's the result: … Continue reading ChatGPT’s version of a Diversity and Inclusion policy

Formed in 2001, Rugby Players Ireland’s remit is to act as the collective voice for professional rugby players in Ireland. A representative body at heart, the association also boasts a world-leading Player Development Programme (PDP) which has become a reference point for other sporting bodies across the globe. The PDP enables players to fulfil their potential both on … Continue reading Tackle Your Feelings, a campaign that is increasing the mental wellbeing of school students, professionals in the workplace and rugby players at all levels

Rugby coach, TV rugby pundit, entrepreneur  and TV personality Brent Pope has been one of Ireland’s biggest advocates for Mental Health. Brent and his colleagues Dave Southern and Eoin Byrne have recently created a campaign called elephantintheroom.ie. They are asking all employees to have a custom designed poly-resin model of a baby elephant in their office … Continue reading Brent Pope co-founded Elephant in the Room, and he is hoping it will create a real conversation about mental health in the workplace

Katie Doyle was working in the travel industry until the pandemic hit. Katie had been looking for a mentor while creating her own business but found there was a big gap in the market for female mentors for young people. So, Katie decided to create her own 6 week programme where that match female Mentors … Continue reading Mentor Her – the Irish founded mentoring programme that matches Mentors and Mentees in entrepreneurship, corporate careers and self-development throughout the world

Irish people are turning to podcasts as a form of entertainment more and more. According to the Irish Times, a Reuters Institute Digital News Report said “Across a 20-country sample, the Irish topped the podcast-listening leaderboard with 46 per cent saying they had listened to one in the past month, up from 41 per cent … Continue reading Irish Podcasts that are powering the discussion around Diversity and Inclusion

According to their own data “Of the 55,000 people in Ireland who are blind or vision impaired, just 5% or approximately 2,750 of those are blind. This means that approximately 52,250 people across the country have a form of vision impairment or are affected by sight loss in some way. The impact of vision impairment … Continue reading The NCBI working to reduce unemployment amongst the blind community

According to Irishjobs.ie "Sun Microsystems implemented a mentoring programme. Mentors were six times more likely to be promoted than those not in the programme. Mentees were five times more likely to achieve a promotion. Mentees were five times more likely to receive an increase in pay than those who did not participate. Mentors have had … Continue reading Organisations empowering Diversity and Inclusion through Mentoring