What's Missing in Your Inclusion Initiatives?, The Out of Office Podcast, Episode 1-What's Missing in Your Inclusion Initiatives?, Episode 1: The Out of Office Podcast.

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The podcast features Stuart Dessen and Jonathan Cannon interviewing Tasha Clapperton, a UK psychologist turned business practitioner in Texas. Tasha describes moving from Newcastle University, where she taught psychology and worked with neurodivergent children, into a family business, Solomon People Solutions, focused on HR, leadership training, change management, and organizational assessments.<br /><br />A major theme is that many psychological and leadership assessment tools are transferable across borders and industries, but only if they are adapted to context. Tasha emphasizes that organizations often misunderstand values, engagement, and emotional intelligence as abstract concepts, when they are really practical drivers of productivity, retention, and revenue. She argues that leaders need self-awareness, strong communication, and processes that help employees connect their daily work to the wider mission.<br /><br />The conversation also explores neurodiversity in the workplace. Tasha warns against stereotyping neurodivergent people by diagnosis and instead advocates looking at individual strengths, needs, and feasible accommodations. She stresses the importance of communication, sensory awareness, and transparency in recruitment and management. She also discusses the limits of one-size-fits-all assessments, recommending multiple tools, qualitative feedback, and tailored interpretation.<br /><br />Later, the discussion turns to COVID’s impact on young people, reduced face-to-face communication, and concerns about AI and chatbots weakening writing, reasoning, and social skills. Overall, Tasha’s message is that organizations should focus less on labels and box-ticking, and more on individualized, evidence-based, human-centered leadership.

Keywords

Tasha Clapperton

psychology

business consulting

HR leadership

organizational assessments

neurodiversity

emotional intelligence

employee engagement

change management

human-centered leadership