4. Diversity Opportunities in Italy with Rachael Wilson

reWorked: the Workplace Inclusion Podcast

EW Group MD Rachael Wilson travels to Rome to speak to Italian business leaders about their diversity and inclusion plans.

"If you compare Italy now to 20 years ago, we've changed very very quickly. Companies are creating a new inclusive approach in order to transform diversity into business opportunity. It's a reality that's growing fast." Emelia Garito, TEDxRoma

Last week, Rachael was invited to speak at a conference in Rome hosted by EW Group's Italian partners, Diversity Opportunity. These are divisive times in Italy: the general election the day before the event had ended in a hung parliament.

Against such an uncertain backdrop, Rachael wanted to get a sense of the efforts that Italian businesses are making to adapt perspectives around diversity, and to address barriers to inclusion.

What she found was a genuine belief that diversity represents a source of team empowerment and business innovation.

As the only Brit in the room, Rachael took the chance to speak to a number of guests about the rising importance of workplace diversity and inclusion in Italy, and the progress made so far:

- Elvis Daniel, HR Business Partner at Stryker

- Emelia Garito, Organiser of TedxRoma

- Monica Ricci, HR Director, eFM

- Emiliano Boschetto, ‎Institutional Relations and Communication Manager at eFM

You're listening to Reworked, the EW Group podcast on workplace culture.

For more on EW Group and the work we do to build inclusive cultures, follow us on Twitter.