Advancing Gender Equity Through Inclusive Workplace Practices

Tash Koster-Thomas

Recording: YesLanguage: EnglishDuration: 45 min / 15 minSpeaker rating: 4.8 out of 5 from 193 participants across all their sessions
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Advancing Gender Equity Through Inclusive Workplace Practices

This one runs as a masterclass: Tash Koster-Thomas takes your colleagues through the research and the thinking behind it, with live questions throughout.

Tash Koster-Thomas
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Tash Koster-Thomas

Tash Koster-Thomas (she/her) is an Inclusion and Diversity Consultant, presenter, speaker, and LGBTQ+ Activist who stands at the forefront of transformative conversations. Leveraging her identity and lived experience as a Black queer woman, Tash champions the cause of diversity and inclusion in both society and the workplace. Tash understands that embracing diversity is not only a moral imperative but also a strategic advantage. She is committed to guiding organizations through transformative journeys that go beyond compliance, fostering cultures that champion diversity, equity, and inclusion at every level.

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Session Summary

This session focuses on exploring the systemic barriers that contribute to gender disparities in the workplace. It emphasises the importance of creating inclusive policies and practices that ensure equal opportunities for all genders.

The discussion includes real-world examples, statistical data, and personal stories to highlight the pervasive nature of gender bias. Participants engage in interactive activities to develop actionable strategies aimed at promoting gender equity in their own organisation.

Interaction

During the expert session, Tash Koster-Thomas engages the audience through interactive exercises using the Mentimeter app, Q&A sessions, and live demonstrations.

Key Learnings

Detailed session description

In this dynamic session, inclusion expert Tash Koster-Thomas explores what gender equity really requires today—and why an intersectional approach is essential. Using the case that inspired Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality, Tash shows how traditional systems often overlook the unique barriers faced by women of color, LGBTQ+ women, disabled women, and others whose identities overlap.

Through current data and real examples, participants learn how microaggressions manifest across race, gender, sexuality, age, religion, and disability, and how these daily experiences can undermine belonging and career progression. Tash introduces clear, practical tools for addressing non-inclusive behavior, including the impact vs. intention framework and the four-step method of acknowledge, apologize, restate, and move on.

The session highlights the role of allyship, from self-awareness and bravery to using one’s privilege to advocate for others. Tash also outlines concrete actions organizations and individuals can take—such as sponsorship, pay transparency, reducing bias in hiring, and building inclusive networks.

Participants leave with a deeper understanding of intersectional inequity and actionable steps they can begin implementing immediately to foster a more inclusive workplace.

Before you book

Questions about Advancing Gender Equity Through Inclusive Workplace Practices

Is this session interactive, or do people just watch?

It is interactive, and the block above says exactly how for this session. Nobody has to speak up who does not want to: the chat and the polls carry most of it, and the questions can come in anonymously.

Is this for beginners or for people who already know the subject?

This session focuses on exploring the systemic barriers that contribute to gender disparities in the workplace. It emphasises the importance of creating inclusive policies and practices that ensure equal opportunities for all genders. It is built for a general working audience: no prior knowledge is assumed, and people who already know the subject get the research and the practical side rather than an introduction.

What kind of session is this?

A masterclass. Tash Koster-Thomas takes your colleagues through the subject and the reasoning behind it, and answers live questions. It is practical in what people take away, without the hour turning into an exercise class.

Is Tash the right expert for this?

Tash Koster-Thomas is one of the experts we auditioned ourselves, and we produce every session so we see how each one lands. Participants rate this session 4.5 out of 5, across 193 responses, and rate Tash personally 4.8 out of 5.

How long does it take, and what do we have to prepare?

It runs 45 min / 15 min: the talk, then live questions. All you do is pick a date. We brief Tash, produce the session, host and moderate it, run the Q&A, and send you the report within an hour of the end.

Who can join, and where does it run?

A team, a department, an employee network or every single employee at once, with no cap and no per-seat price. It runs inside your own Microsoft Teams, Zoom or Google Meet, or on a branded page we build. No integration, no login, no company device or e-mail.

Can our global colleagues follow it?

The session is delivered in English. You can add high accuracy live subtitles in 8, 16 or 24 languages, so everyone follows in their own. That is a paid option, priced by the number of languages you need.

Will our IT department have a problem with this?

No, and that is by design. There is nothing to install, nothing to integrate and no connection to your systems, so there is nothing for IT to validate: we join your own Teams, Zoom or Meet as a guest speaker, or we host a page and your people open a link. No software, no accounts, and no data of yours that we can reach. It is why hundreds of companies, among them some of the largest technology and financial firms in the world, were able to start within a day.

How does this work under GDPR?

We never receive or hold personal data about your employees. Because the session runs in your own environment, attendance and identity stay with you, and what we report back is aggregated: numbers, ratings and survey answers, not people. That is also why IT approval usually takes minutes rather than weeks.

What do we get afterwards?

You keep the recording and can share it internally. You also get attendance over time, participant ratings for the content and the speaker, the survey answers, and the topics your people asked for next.

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