Beyond Busy

Founding Director of The Inclusion Initiative, Associate Professor in Behavioural Science at LSE, Dr. Grace Lordan shares her views on diversity, cultivating a growth mindset and why people succeed. She is the author of “Think Big”, a book about giving tips to people who want to achieve their goals in life. Graham and Grace start the podcast by talking about issues on diversity and taking risks in career advancement.'If you have skills, talents, and ability, even if they don’t match the role that you’re actually going for, a risk-loving person is much more likely to get it because they’ll be putting their hat in the ring much more often.'Grace then discusses why diverse thinking is not confined to race or gender alone.'Diversity is really only a pulse point for diversity of thinking. So, all the evidence that we have that says diversity is good in business comes from diverse thinking, and having people who have these different perspectives.'Describing the book, Think Big, Grace breaks it down into how thinkin