Conductor receives Merit award for Health & Wellbeing
Conductor Software was honoured to receive a Merit Award for Health & Wellbeing at the 2021-2022 TechDiversity Awards Gala Dinner on Thursday night in Melbourne.
The TechDiversity Awards Celebrate leaders and champions of diversity in digital technology. With so many local tech companies making huge strides in this space, we were excited to be in the same room as the teams from Remarkable, BindiMaps, Code Like A Girl and so many others.
Judged by more than 50 esteemed industry representatives, the Tech Diversity Awards celebrate initiatives which ‘demonstrate amplifying diversity awareness and achieving a culture of inclusion, through conversation, collaboration and action’, nominations are assessed against criteria including Demonstration of Behavioural Change, Uniqueness within an Industry, Courage and Contribution to Diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths sectors.
So despite the fact that Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity are just some of the workplace challenges Conductor was built to tackle, there’s no doubt they are some of the issues closest to our heart. So we asked Conductor’s Co-Founder and CEO Karren Jensen to explain why this award held particular significance for her.
“There are so many amazing companies, teams and individuals doing great work out there to create more caring, respectful and inclusive communities and workplaces. I am deeply proud of the work our team does here at Conductor, so it means a lot that it’s being recognised.
It can be extremely difficult for organisations to see DEI issues and measure their impact on workplace mental and social wellbeing and organisational performance, let alone make decisions to sustain or improve them.
Organisations looking to improve diversity in their workforce often find a conflict between organisational performance and workforce wellbeing. We intuitively understand that the wellness of our people is necessary for our organisation to perform. However, it has historically been difficult to calculate a return on people-related investments beyond remuneration, training and physical safety. This difficulty often results in an under-investment in the right people-related support which can undermine the mental and social wellbeing of people in the workforce. The result is lose-lose-lose for the people in the workforce, the organisation's performance, and greater society”
Here at Conductor, we primarily deal with an organisation’s DEI efforts through the lens of psychological safety. We have recently discovered a link between psychological safety and conversations surrounding DEI topics in our data. When psychological safety is low, things can become seriously problematic when it comes to having conversations around topics like diversity and inclusion.
Employers who focus on diversity but ignore what equity and inclusion mean for their teams put their organisation at risk of higher turnover, reduced performance, low innovation and lower likelihood of change initiatives succeeding.
Fortunately, we’ve developed a range of tools to support leaders and organisations who are keen to harness the benefits of DEI by ensuring their teams feel safe to show up as their whole selves in the workplace.
If you’re interested to learn more about our ‘award winning’ (woohoo!) software platform and leadership training programs, get in touch with us today.
