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Leading Inclusion Intentionally with CQ across Blue Light Services
We provide tailored solutions for Blue Light Services that will help you take your Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategies to a place where it makes a real difference for your whole Service.
Make a Real Difference
CQ goes beyond existing approaches of cultural sensitivity, unconscious bias and cultural awareness and sets out the skills, abilities and capabilities that individuals and Blue Light Services need, to successfully and respectfully work with difference and diversity.
Intentionally Inclusive and Culturally Intelligent
We are committed to working across the landscape of Blue Light Services to build intentionally inclusive, culturally intelligent organisations and teams where the diversity of the workforce is positively leveraged to produce better outcomes for individuals, staff and communities particularly those from marginalised communities.
Supporting the Journey
Explore our solutions and find out how we can partner with you to achieve a Culturally Intelligent and Inclusive organisation.
We are driven by creating a better, fairer and more inclusive UK public and community sector.
Avon & Somerset Constabulary
One of the UK’s largest police forces, Avon and Somerset, was the first Constabulary to adopt Cultural Intelligence (CQ) in Policing. The programme is leading to real time changes in the way that communities are policed. Officers with enhanced CQ are more confident in being with diverse communities and they are using their understanding of cultural values and CQ to shape their responses to communities in a range of contexts.
The Constabulary has become the first Culturally Intelligent Police Force in the country. In addition to the Leading Inclusively with CQ leadership programme, we worked with teams to embed the learning. We provided safe peer discussion groups for participants to develop their CQ and apply their learning to real-time challenges in working across diverse communities.
“Jennifer provides a fresh and academic yet practical perspective brimming with constructive and thought-provoking challenges that is helping make a huge change in our performance”.
The unique combination of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and Inclusive Leadership offers a new, innovative approach to the inclusion agenda that is rooted in academic research and based on a clear framework.
At Above Difference, we equip leaders and organisations to move from ‘managing diversity’ to ‘leading for inclusion’. By developing CQ and Inclusive Leadership styles in individuals and organisations, we develop individual’s ability to decisively and intentionally create inclusive workplace cultures where diversity is recognised as one of the organisations greatest assets and all cultures are valued and respected.
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