We’re delighted to share that three of Professor Binna Kandola OBE’s recent publications have been named as Finalists in the National Indie Excellence Awards!

• Designing for Diversity in the Business – General Category
• Building a Psychologically Safe Work Environment in the Business – General Category
• How to Build LGBTQ+ Inclusive Workplaces, co-authored by Dr Ashley Williams, in the LGBTQIA Non-Fiction category

These recognitions reflect the importance of continuing conversations around inclusion, psychological safety and creating better workplaces for everyone.

A huge thank you to the judging panel at the National Indie Excellence Awards and to everyone who has read the books so far.

About The National Indie Excellence Awards

The National Indie Excellence Awards celebrate outstanding books from independent publishers, as well as self-published authors, across a wide range of categories. The awards recognise excellence in both writing and publishing, shining a spotlight on books that make a meaningful contribution in their field.

About Designing for Diversity

What measures do you use to spot talent and assess employee performance? How do you decide who gets promoted? Are these methods fair and inclusive?

Talent management is a cornerstone of modern organisational strategy but it has consistently fallen short in achieving meaningful diversity.

Designing for Diversity challenges the deeply rooted assumptions that have shaped traditional talent management systems and critiques the philosophies that often reinforce the status quo. This book then offers actionable strategies to create systems and processes that genuinely identify and nurture individuals with leadership potential.

While many DEI efforts aim to signal progress, they can inadvertently sustain inertia. This book empowers organisations to move beyond surface-level solutions and implement practices that drive real, measurable change.

It explores each element of talent management from performance management systems and talent identification methods, through to talent development and promotion processes.

This book also examines the limitations of target setting and the benefits of both formal and informal mentoring. The result is a new paradigm for identifying leaders, fostering diversity, and enhancing competition for senior roles.

Whether you’re a business leader, HR professional or advocate for equity in the workplace, Designing for Diversity is your essential guide to creating a future where talent management and diversity thrive together.

Order Your Copy Today

You can order your copy directly through the publisher Routledge or on Amazon.

About Building a Psychologically Safe Work Environment

Building a Psychologically Safe Work Environment provides a roadmap to enable the creation cultures in organisations where voices are heard, actions taken, and lives improved. Written in an approachable question-and-answer format, the book offers a valuable “dip in and out” approach to questions surrounding psychological safety in professional life.

It provides guidance on such topics as what psychological safety is, why it is important, how to tell if you work in a psychologically safe environment, and what actions leaders can take to make their workplace more psychologically safe. Through an examination of current research and in-depth analysis of real-life examples, the book takes a systemic approach that equips you with the tools to make the changes in your own workplace that will have the greatest impact on your teams and yourself. In so doing, it empowers you to create an inclusive work environment that is engaging, respectful, challenging, and effective.

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You can order your copy directly through the publisher Kogan Page or Amazon.

About How To Build LGBTQ+ Inclusive Workplaces

Bringing together the latest research with practical insights from the authors’ professional experience, this important book provides a context for the conversations that are needed within organisations and offers practical guidance towards action that can be taken to improve the working life of LGBTQ+ employees.

How To Build LGBTQ+ Inclusive Workplaces begins by asking how we got here. It outlines the development of stigma towards the LGBTQ+ community from both a historical and psychological perspective before going on to explore the ways in which societal attitudes manifest in the work environment. It then looks specifically at LGBTQ+ experiences in the workplace, covering discrimination and exclusion and their impact at both an individual and organisational level before taking an intersectional view of LGBTQ+ identity, and particularly how it interacts with race, disability and age.

The book then provides clear and practical guidance on how to build an LGBTQ+ inclusive workplace, covering organisational policy and culture, leadership and allyship. Throughout, the authors use case studies to demonstrate how to implement policies across a range of regions and offer strategies to minimise homophobic and discriminatory attitudes.

Taking a psychological approach to this important topic, the book is essential reading for all those looking to build and sustain welcoming and inclusive workplaces across all sectors. It will also be of interest to students in psychology, management and human resources studying workplace attitudes and culture.