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Grace Lordan
Grace Lordan helps organisations build inclusive, productive teams using evidence from behavioural science. She's an LSE professor, Founding Director of The Inclusion Initiative, and has advised the UK government on skills and productivity.
Professor Grace Lordan is a behavioural scientist at the London School of Economics who shows organisations how to build inclusive, productive workplaces using hard evidence.
Grace is the Founding Director of The Inclusion Initiative at LSE and created the university's MSc in Behavioural Science. She has advised the UK government's skills and productivity board, leads a £2 million ESRC-funded research project on diversity and productivity, and writes for the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan Management Review. Her book Think Big, Take Small Steps sets out a practical approach to building a better working life.
Grace's research looks at what actually helps people progress at work, from inclusive leadership and women's advancement to the skills organisations will need as work changes. She also advises blue-chip finance and technology firms, so her recommendations are tested against real business pressures. Her academic work appears in leading international journals, and her writing has also run in Fortune, Fast Company, and Reuters.
Audiences leave with specific behavioural changes that make teams more inclusive, a clearer view of the barriers holding talent back, and small, practical steps leaders can start using straight away.
Book Grace for rigorous research turned into changes your leaders will actually make.
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Grace Lordan grounds every point in research from her work at LSE, turning findings on inclusion and productivity into small behavioural changes, the same approach behind her book Think Big, Take Small Steps.
Grace Lordan specialises in inclusive leadership, women's progress at work, labour market skills and the future of work, and building productive organisations. She is Founding Director of The Inclusion Initiative at LSE, created its MSc in Behavioural Science, and has advised the UK government on skills and productivity.
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