Are Organisational Inclusive Practices & Reasonable Adjustments Fit for Purpose?

Inclusive practices help employees feel comfortable and confident to be themselves, working in a way that suits them while delivering business needs. While reasonable adjustments are changes employers make to remove or reduce a disadvantage related to someone's disability. Many businesses may already have these practices in place, but are they fit for purpose?

In this panel event, we will discuss this with industry experts, looking at the law, the culture and best practices.

Agenda
10:00 - 10:30 Networking
10:30 - 11:50 Keynote and panel discussion
11:50 - 12:00 Event close

Ann Frances Cooney, Partner at DWF LLP, starts things with the law on reasonable adjustments.

DWF is a leading global provider of integrated legal and business services with 30+ locations and 4000+ employees. Our 12 well-established UK&I offices with 1000+ qualified legal professionals (including circa 100 based in Glasgow and Edinburgh) act for many major Scottish and UK businesses.

Ann Frances is an employment partner with vast expertise handling a range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters including TUPE, employment disputes, commercial transactions, workforce restructures, strike actions and industrial relations, appointment & severance terms, discrimination & equality, enforceability of post-termination obligations, whistleblowing as well as, dismissal, discipline, absence management, grievance and other day to day HR support. As an experienced litigator, Ann Frances regularly appears in Employment Tribunals across the UK. Regularly advising private and public sector employers, she works with a broad range of clients (PLCs, multinational and UK-wide corporations, start-ups and senior executives).

This is Milk, founder and MD, Angela Prentner-Smith, will guide you through the intricacies of cultivating a psychologically safe workplace that fuels inclusion.

Angela Prenter-Smith is the trailblazing managing director and founder of This is Milk, a consultancy, training, and technology business. Passionate about equity, particularly in gender roles, neurodiversity, and human-centred business practices, Angela has become a prominent advocate. Angela is an experienced and certified facilitator in psychological safety indexing and has used these skills to create an inclusive culture at This is Milk.

Ashleigh Halpin, founder of Imperium HR, believes the key to any people issue in the workplace is communication, and she is an expert at this. Ashleigh will give some advice on how to have difficult conversations and promote wellbeing across your team.

Ashleigh is an experienced HR professional with 20 years of experience within the corporate industry, in addition to consultancy for entrepreneurial-based businesses. Her experience spans the whole of the HR remit, but she specifically enjoys helping businesses with complex people issues, including employee relations and mental wellbeing challenges.​

The Milk Bar is a place for people who care about transforming business for the better. Those willing to challenge the status quo and put customers first, sharing experiences to help one another.

Our ultimate goal is to increase prosperity for Scottish businesses through connecting like-minded people and encouraging collaboration for even better customer outcomes and happier workplaces. We talk about current hot topics in the industry and predictions for what’s coming around the corner, with inspiring speakers, and lots of opportunities for learning, discussion and debate.

NB We will have a photographer present at the event. Please let a member of the This is Milk team know at registration if you would prefer to be left out of any photos.

### LOCATION

DWF Ltd, G2 7BW

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