Hosted by Rachel Cashman and Simon Fanshawe · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 28 episodes
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Leaders are faced with dilemmas every day that flow from human interactions at work. And they are so often disruptive, time-consuming, potentially create division among your staff and test you as a leader. You need time to reflect…..you need space in the morning to listen to Rachel Cashman and Simon Fanshawe eating these problems for breakfast. Fearless Diversity is the candid podcast that tackles the real dilemmas bosses, managers, and leaders face every day – around accountability, decision-making, workplace dynamics, conflict, and organisational culture and their people. Join Rachel Cashman and Simon Fanshawe — two of the foremost thought leaders in workplace diversity, leadership, and inclusion — as they dive into honest conversations that get to the heart of it. We have the conversations you want to have. Rachel brings real-world, high-level implementation experience - expertise that CEOs and managers can trust, learn from
Rachel Cashman and Simon Fanshawe hosts Fearless Diversity, a business show with 28 episodes published.
It’s Christmas. It’s almost the end of the year and it’s the latest episode of Fearless Diversity. Rachel and Simon polish off the twelve days of Christmas with their final six key issues of 2025. In place of geese, swan
In this week’s episode, Rachel and Simon pull on their Christmas jumpers and look back at a year of fearless diversity. But instead of a partridge, turtle doves, French hens, calling birds, gold rings and geese, their fi
Tearing Down the Wall: A Fearless Diversity Look at Fairness Three kids, a wall, and those famous different-sized “equity” boxes. Helpful metaphor or the reason that to so many leaders and colleagues think the boxes look
In this special Fearless Diversity episode, we press pause on the culture war and lean into a quieter kind of courage: listening. Rachel and Simon are joined by Jacqui Gavin BEM, a trans woman, former civil servant and l
“A crisis of trust at the BBC” The BBC is weathering one of the fiercest storms in its modern history. The now-infamous Prescott memo, an “egregious” Trump edit, open rows over coverage of the Israel-Gaza conflict, and b
On November 1st at about 7o’clock a man, now identified as Anthony Williams, is alleged to have stabbed eleven people on a train from Doncaster to Kings Cross. The grainy footage showed that he was black. And up went a r
When HR leaders become the organisation’s emotional shock absorbers, who absorbs the shock for them and how do we keep culture lawful, human, and high performing? In a post-pandemic world of blurred boundaries, rising ne
CRISIS OF TRUST: HOW TO FIX WHAT'S BROKEN IN BRITAIN'S BOARDROOMS, BEDROOMS AND BEYOND Trust is in dangerously short supply these days. From politics to once-dependable institutions and even within close-knit teams, conf
This week, Simon & Rachel get gloriously uncomfortable. It’s a rollicking debate with sharp edges, full-throttle disagreement in part, and one very live question who’s it actually worth arguing with anymore? Simon’s just
Fearless Diversity: Identity, Civility, and the Courage to Disagree At a time when public debate feels less like dialogue and more like a contest over whose feelings matter most, Simon and Rachel take a breath, and a sta
Recorded on Tuesday 7 October 2025, this episode confronts the murders at Heaton Park on Yom Kippur and the sharp rise in antisemitism in the UK. We name the harm plainly and we hold the line between free speech and inci
In this episode of Fearless Diversity, Rachel Cashman - the fearless facilitator - and Simon Fanshawe - the diversity dissident - tackle one of the most contentious policy revivals in years: the return of the digital ID
Simon and Rachel wade into flags, patriotism and nationality. At the moment flags are everywhere – at football matches, street parties, protests, Pride and, lately, at the heart of raging debate about what it means to be
Fearless Diversity — Series Two Premiere Title: “Words, Violence, and the Tribe: Beyond the Workplace” Series Two is here. Rachel Cashman, your Fearless Facilitator, and Simon Fanshawe, the Diversity Dissident, are back.
In the week that Parliament decided to give the vote to sixteen year olds, welcome back to Fearless Diversity, the podcast where age isn’t just a tick-box in the census, it’s the parent, the baby, and the teenage activis
Let’s Be Honest: The conversation on immigration is neither neat nor simple. So in this episode, Rachel and Simon wade straight into the mess of history, aspiration, personal fear, good intentions and the fear of getting
After explosive scenes at Glastonbury and two alarming reports detailing “cancellation” and fear sweeping through both publishing and the arts, Fearless Diversity dives into the complex world of artistic freedom, censors
PIP PIP Hooray - Disability: People, Potential, and the Art of the Possible Welcome to Fearless Diversity the podcast that tackles the tricky bits of life in work and has the conversation that you want to. This week Simo
Let’s face it: conversations about race make even the most fearless among us uneasy, awkward or just very nervous. In this episode of Fearless Diversity, Simon Fanshawe (Diversity Dissident) and Rachel Cashman (Fearless
Join Simon Fanshawe, the Diversity Dissident, and Rachel Cashman, the Fearless Facilitator, as they boldly dive into one of everyone's least favourite topics: Failure! With wit, honesty, and plenty of personal anecdotes
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Fearless Diversity is hosted by Rachel Cashman and Simon Fanshawe. The show is categorised under business (society) and has published 28 episodes.
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