009 Challenging the status quo and making a difference with Amanda Fone F1 Recruitment

My Guest on todays show is Amanda Fone a marcomm and sports marketing recruitment veteran and the founder of F1 Recruitment. She has been championing inclusion, diversity and social mobility long before they became buzz words. I met Amanda a couple of years back and was struck by her empathy, her deep belief in supporting her candidates on their journey and her activism on inclusion. She is someone who believes in walking the talk and has actually committed a substantial percentage of F1 profit to delivering D&I programmes for the past 5 years. In this freewheeling conversation we talk about 👇🏾 👉🏾 Setting up F1 Search & Recruitment, its diversity agenda and wanting to be a certified B Corporation 👉🏾 ‘Back To Business Ship’ programme and its success 👉🏾 The evolution of BAME 2020 and launch of ‘No Turning Back 2020’ 👉🏾 Dearth of women in leadership in the industry and The Elephant in the Room for women returners 👉🏾 The long term impact of COVID 19 on the recruitment business and industry 👉🏾 Moving the needle on inclusion 👉🏾 What organisations can do to win the ‘War for Talent’ in the future Subscribe to the show on any of your favourite platforms iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts. https://podcast.app/the-elephant-in-the-room-p1758338/?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=share

Om Podcasten

The Elephant in the Room Podcast is a curated safe space to have uncomfortable conversations about the pervasive inequalities in society and our workplaces. The idea of the podcast was born from my sense of conflict about identity, self and the concept of privilege and fuelled by my own need to understand how my overlapping identities and experiences had impacted and would continue to impact my life chances. Two years ago I decided to ‘opt out’ to find my own purpose and focus on passion projects including learning about the systemic biases that are endemic in business and society. The Podcast is my very own listening project, a step towards being more intentional in my learning. The Elephant in the Room Podcast is for people who want to be a part of the change, for those who want to step up & speak out, for those who want to learn more about biases, barriers and best practice, for business leaders and for individuals, anyone who is interested in a fairer, more inclusive and compassionate society and workplace. Each week I will interview inspiring speakers from across the world on issues that are taboo and deserve to be mainstream including(but not limited to) systemic and institutionalised racism, discrimination based on further eight protected characteristics, poverty, mental health, climate change. The podcast will also talk about cognitive inclusion, culture, purpose, ethics and the importance of empathy, cultural intelligence and how conversations on identity and disadvantage would be incomplete without considering intersectionality. With the podcast I hope to share stories of people with lived experiences, stories that may have never been told, stories that galvanise us to take action for change and keep the conversations alive by raising the decibel on issues of inequity, inequality in our search for a fairer and more inclusive world.