How to be an Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive, by Jennifer Brown

I have been trying to get hold of this book for a while now. After a couple of failed attempts ordering from Amazon (where orders were cancelled because of no stock) I finally had success. Inclusion is one of the biggest organisational topics at the moment. There is no point driving diversity if you don’t have inclusion, right?

I really liked how the author Jennifer Brown started out to say why she wrote the book. Her point being that we all know why diversity and inclusion is important, but the how is the missing element. She proposes an actionable process to build inclusive behaviours (the how) through the “Inclusive Leader Continuum”. This four-stage continuum shows how all of us can move through different levels of understanding to be inclusive, shifting our thinking from being unaware through to being an advocate.

The content would be super helpful if you were working with leaders to develop their inclusion skills or to learn more about building inclusion across organisations. There are practical explanations and examples of various concepts that would be useful for personal learning and also to build wider training from.

Overall, I found the book easy to read. The concepts were interspersed with personal examples and the content would be useful in building inclusion skills with leaders.  A great book to have in your toolkit.