Talent Spot: Denise Keating, head of the Employers' Network for Equality and Inclusion
There isn’t much in either an HR or business setting that Denise Keating hasn’t tried and mastered.
As well as systematically working to make herself an expert in every aspect of HR, along the way she has also picked up experience of areas such as IT and clinical governance. “I never lost jobs, just gained new ones,” she jokes.
And Keating was bringing all that experience to bear yesterday [October 18] at the launch of membership organisation, the Employers' Network for Equality & Inclusion. The charity has brought together into one organisation the respective remits of the Employers Forums on both Age and Belief, making it a one-stop-shop for information about all nine of the protected characteristics outlined in the Equality Act.
But it’s a tough time to try and get the diversity message across. As the economic thumbscrews have tightened, many organisations have either put their diversity programmes on hold or abandoned them altogether.
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