Published by Tim Collings
Insights > Better World Leaders
Published August 18, 2021
Listen  60 mins

To achieve diversity you either need awesome leadership or quotas – our conversation with Diversity Tech CEO Sandra D’Souza

We’re so excited to have crossed the threshold of halfway in our third season of Better World Leaders, and to continue to explore the many ways leaders are inspiring transformation towards creating our better world. The journey continues in this conversation with Sandra D’Souza, as we blend playfulness with total seriousness to explore a vital topic in progressing towards a more inclusive and equal world – how to nurture diverse teams and cultures.

We explore Sandra’s journey of discovering and leaning into purpose, her own transformation from Accountant to Tech Founder CEO, via Digital Marketing, and the many ways she is both actively nurturing and inspiring positive change in the Inclusion, Diversity and Equity space via her Diversity marketplace platform, Ellect.

We’re really looking forward to hearing your thoughts and sharing the Better World Leaders journey with you – both Sandra and Tim would love to hear your comments and reviews or directly from you via any of the social links below.

Key out-takes from this episode;

  • How to take people on the journey to change the world
  • How to demonstrate that this transition to create a better world will benefit them and the whole world
  • That one of the first steps which is often missed is really listening for any fears that people may have about any transformation, but especially one that confronts real change.
  • We explore the need to be willing to sit in discomfort of shared space with people of opposing views, opinions & experiences
  • We discuss that listening is about being inclusive
  • How to hold space so that the realisation comes that not everyone has access to the same opportunities, and that as this is revealed the next movement towards inclusion is one of curiosity
  • That one example of diversity that truly affects the bottom line, productivity & agility is having a diverse range of suppliers
  • That there is often a lack of awareness of how other groups are feeling
  • The vital role of leaders in nurturing the conditions for inclusion and fostering the structures to enable equity through diversity
  • The reality that is true diversity is not led from the top, you have to force the change in other ways

Here’s the link to the Supplier Diversity Awards Sandra mentioned – submissions open until the end of August 2021 – click here

Follow Ellect or reach out to Sandra via social platforms and details below:

Website – www.ellect.biz/
Sandra email
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ellect.biz/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sandra.dsouza.ellect.biz/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EllectBiz
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/sandradsouzaaust

We’ve also launched a Better World Leaders LinkedIn group, follow to connect and interact more deeply with the BWL community – www.linkedin.com/company/better-world-leaders

As always, great thanks and appreciation to the team who contributed to bringing Better World Leaders to you;

To Brendan Ward for mastering, final production, composition and performance of original music throughout each episode.

To Cooper, Pat and the team at RadioHub studios for audio editing, technical support and creative guidance during the episodes that are recorded face-to-face. You can find out about Radio Hub’s services here – https://www.radiohub.com.au/

To NokNok Studios for website design, hosting and advice. Find out about NokNok’s awesome services here – https://www.facebook.com/NOKNOKstudios/

To Cirasa Design for logo and site graphics – Find our about Cirasa’s inspiring work here