CITMA has teamed up with IP Inclusive to help you understand the whys and hows of developing and delivering an EDI strategy for the workplace that creates lasting change.
With a focus on undertaking tangible action and monitoring your progress, this webinar will help you form an approach that is both meaningful and strategically viable.
There is often an impulse to jump to action on EDI brought on by a sense of urgency to ‘do something’, which leads to activity that is reactive to immediate pressures that can be short-lived and not properly planned or resourced.
Understand the benefits of taking a more systematic approach when embedding EDI into the workplace to ensure it has a lasting impact.
Our speakers will discuss their experiences within their organisations in supporting the development and implementation of EDI strategies.
The session will explore the importance of having an EDI strategy in the workplace, and identify the metrics by which you can measure its success.
Learning outcomes
- Why having an EDI strategy for the workplace is important and what benefits it brings
- How you can create, gain buy-in and deliver the strategy within the workplace
- How to be proactive rather than reactive to EDI to create lasting change.
- How to get your whole firm/organisation involved so that EDI becomes part of everyone’s everyday responsibilities.
- How to identify your rationale for taking action, set goals based on evidence and make sure the change you’re seeking lasts.
Meet your speakers
Andrea Brewster, IP Inclusive
Andrea is the Founder and Lead Executive Officer of IP Inclusive, dedicated to improving diversity and inclusion in the IP professions.
She is also a former President of The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), LawCare Champion and Chartered Patent Attorney and European Patent Attorney. Before moving into her CIPA and IP Inclusive roles she was a partner in a small regional IP practice, Greaves Brewster LLP, of which she had been a co-founder.
Kate O'Rourke, Mewburn Ellis
As a Solicitor and Chartered Trade Mark Attorney, Kate has over 25 years’ experience in relation to trade marks and related copyright, design and internet matters and is a partner and head of trade marks at Mewburn Ellis. She is recognised as one of the Top 250 Women in IP globally in 2023.
Kate was President of CITMA from 2016-2018 and currently leads the CITMA campaign for reform of the rights of representation at the UK IPO.
She started her career in a specialist IP firm in Sydney before relocating to the UK and becoming cross qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales and as a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney.
Nicola Smith, UK Intellectual Property Office
Nicola is responsible for shaping and leading the UK IPO’s Inclusion and Diversity strategy. With a focus on creating an environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, and where their people feel valued for their cognitive diversity, lived experiences and the fresh perspectives they bring.
Nicola’s portfolio stretches right across the diversity space, but she particularly specialises in driving improvements in the Bullying, Harassment and Respect space, increasing representation STEM and influencing more inclusive policies, practices and decision making.
She is a member of a global taskforce looking to improve diversity in the IP Ecosystem, and she’s passionate about equity and creating accessible spaces for people to be and do their best.