Diverse workforces make companies more profitable and productive

A wealth of lived experience at firms leads to better decision-making and internal stress-testing of ideas, writes IEMA's Sarah Mukherjee. "On several of our meetings, my manager commented that my behaviour came across as ‘too assertive' and ‘aggressive', although she provided no examples when I asked her. It was painful to be labelled these terms without fully understanding the reasons behind it - if you don't provide any examples, how am I able to learn and improve? To this day I am still fearful of speaking up in my team or on calls in case I am labelled as being too assertive or aggre...