For well over thirty years, initiatives designed to improve diversity and inclusion (D&I) have been a priority for organisations – but are the plethora of D&I initiatives actually creating the organisational change they aspire to?
Mental Health
In any one year, around one million Australian adults have depression, and more than 2 million have anxiety. Untreated mental health conditions cost Australian employers $10.9 billion every year through absenteeism, reduced productivity and compensation claims.
DCA Research
News
Backlash: is it good for diversity and inclusion (D&I)?
Media releases
17 Oct 2019
The 2019 Diversity Council Australia and MLC Life Insurance Debate will ask: Is backlash good for diversity and inclusion?
New report shows how to make D&I change initiatives that stick
Media releases
22 Jul 2019
DCA with Deloitte and Google have released a new report which sets out an innovative framework to make diversity and inclusion change that works.
When leaders talk about their own mental health
News articles
18 Sep 2018
The latest episode of DCA's The Art of Inclusion podcast, ‘Talking Heads’, looks at the role leaders play in creating mentally healthy workplaces and the importance of admitting vulnerability.
Perspectives
At a loss
Podcasts
04 Nov 2019
In episode 3 of the second series of our podcasts we have an important and open conversation about illness and bereavement at work.
Mental Health in the Workplace - Productivity Commission Inquiry
Submissions
01 Apr 2019
DCA has made a submission to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into the effect of mental health on people’s ability to participate in and prosper in the community and workplace, and the effects it has more generally on our economy and productivity.
Talking heads: two CEOs on leading and managing mental health
Podcasts
18 Sep 2018
Two CEOs get real about being human and not just high performing machines.
Coming events
Sponsored by Suncorp
05 Dec 2019
What are the experiences of Australian workers when it comes to inclusion? Find out when we launch the second Inclusion at Work Index which maps and tracks inclusion in Australian workplaces.
Webcasts from past events
29 Oct 2019
Is backlash good for diversity and inclusion? This is the question moderator Tony Jones posed at this year's DCA & MLC LIfe Insurance Annual Diversity Debate.
22 Jul 2019
How effective are D&I initiatives in achieving change? We found out at the launch of Change At Work.