communities and those teams were, generally speaking, all white. Being "other," that was an
amazing lesson to me.
02:22 | Simon Freakley
It reminds me, when I was at university, one of my very best friends there went on to have a
spectacularly successful career as a commodities analyst. And he once said to me, "Simon, if
you have a bad day and a bad meeting, you go home and think about what didn't go right?
What went wrong?" He said, "you never have to think, I wonder whether that meeting didn't go
well because I was the only black person in the room."
We should start with inclusion, because gender, or their sexuality, or their ethnic origin
becomes secondary. By making people feel included, then they feel a vital part of an
organisation.