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Trans Awareness – Promoting Proactive Inclusion
Gender Equality goes beyond acceptance. However, a proactive approach, including Trans Awareness, is a powerful demonstration of commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.
Men Need Help Removing Their Armour
Patriarchy hurts men.
It is a system that drastically needs to be challenged and dismantled for everyone’s benefit.
Who wouldn’t want to be a man in a patriarchal system?
5 Hacks For Making Memories this School Holidays
More and more dads are taking responsibility for the school holidays so I’m sharing a few hacks that I use at my place to enable us to make memories rather than just try to survive.
Pay Transparency
Pay Transparency to reduce disparity. For a lot of organisations, this is the time of the year performance for the previous year gets recognised and bonuses and pay increases are awarded. While progress has been made, there are still disparities between the earning...
Women in Leadership Programs…
The latest version of unpaid work? In most of the leadership programs I have run, unfortunately, many participants who attend often feel the pressure of having to make up for time out of the office. They check their emails and make calls during breaks. Some arrive...
“We don’t talk about Bruno.”
Let’s rethink NDAs. Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) have long been utilised as a legal tool to protect sensitive information, trade secrets, and proprietary knowledge. However, NDAs are also employed to silence victims and anyone else that has become aware of the...
Put Your Sword back in its place.
Let’s get awkward instead. Sexism and other forms of discrimination continue to plague our society, and many people are wondering what they can do to help.This comes up a lot in my Bloke Coaching sessions with men. One option that some people suggest is that men...
International Women’s Day Join the discussion
Men, we need to be active and involved. March 8th is International Women’s Day, in case you hadn’t noticed. There is a plethora of female voices championing for equality, celebrating successes and inspiring more work to be achieved. In case you are yet to realise,...
Late to the Party
I have a friend who is notorious for arriving late to gatherings. Frequently 2-3 hours late. And if there’s acknowledgement and an apology, it’s usually quite superficial. This frustrates me greatly, but I know calling him out about it only sours the...
Are you being equal with the Me Time?
Or is ‘ME’ time really short for ‘MEN’ time? We have all heard the idioms: - Fix your oxygen mask first, before helping others. - You can’t pour from an empty glass. - You need to have 'me' time in order to be your best self. This is all...
Stop Focusing on Fixing Women
When considering your organisation's 2023 plans, perhaps ANOTHER Women in Leadership program is not the answer. The solution to gender diversity problems is not to 'fix women' but rather to fix the flawed criteria and crooked systems that continue to impede many...
How to NOT to Mansplain – In 3 Easy Lessons
Lesson 1 – You Don’t know as much as you think you do There is a tendency that the less we know about a topic, the more we overestimate our own knowledge or competence with that topic. There’s a name for it - the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It’s a thing. Now you know. So...