Society is changing with greater and greater speed. Cultures are becoming more and more intermingled; gender and sexual identity are now far more openly fluid; the complexity of our ability to function is increasing as we live longer due to technological and medical advancement.

You need to greet the future with confidence and curiosity. You need a unique approach to diversity and share it through light and engaging — yet apposite and revealing — activities. You need to build an environment of trust, openness, curiosity and inquiry, which develops leadership capacity, enhances understanding of diversity, and creates the conditions needed to embrace complexity, uncertainty and social improvement.

Developing new ways to think about yourself and others, in the context of the future diversity of your team or organisation, is not only necessary, but it also increases your and your communities' wellbeing.

You will:

• develop healthy working relationships
• oil the engine of a small project team
• nurture confidence in negotiating diverse situations
• make sure the language you use is affirming and appropriate
• get things wrong and recover
• assess whether what you do encompasses everyone and not just the "average"

You'll access a range of other services, using diversity and equitable participation as a platform:

• thought leadership and capacity development to enhance diversity and lead social improvement 
• strategic, research and policy advice
• developmental evaluation
• public speaking, keynotes and participatory workshops
• mentoring and coaching
• project and process management
• online systems, web design and social media
• collaborating on projects with a diversity kaupapa
• designing and facilitating entertaining team-building experiences
• writing and editing diversity-related copy

Current work

• Co-direction of Be. Accessible's Be. Leadership programme
• Management of End-of-Choice Society's website and social media
• Health Research Council's Development Group 
• Working with NZ Transport Agency to provide inclusive access, enabling all people to participate in society through access to social and economic opportunities, with Ipsos.

Key past work

• Brand audit of accessable with Ipsos
• Keynotes and workshops for University of Auckland, AUT University, Epsom Girls Grammar, TEDxAuckland (view Philip's TEDTalk); Auckland Careers and Transition Educators; St John Ambulance Regional Managers and its leadership team; community arts practitioners; mental health, disability and addiction services; and more.