Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Specialist
Live well with challenges
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Specialist
Live.Be are successful Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion consultants who unlock productivity limitations, and enable employees to reach their full potential. Through consultancy and workshops, we help groups, not-for-profit organisations, and businesses meet critical challenges by equipping, and enabling people; aligning and mobilising resources to deliver better outcomes for clients, employees, customers, and suppliers. We do this by assessing, developing, and engaging with your operation, your people, and third-party services.
R.A.I.S.E
REALIZE
Represent disabled employees and those living with chronic conditions to realise their full potential, and active participation in their role, ensuring they are energized and productive members of their workplaces.
ACCELERATE
Accelerate inclusion by working with employers to embed evidence-based practices to make workplace more inclusive, and accessible for disabled people, and persons living with challenging conditions.
INFLUENCE
Work with corporations and organisations to remove the systemic barriers that exist for people with disabilities, and those living with challenging conditions within their workplaces and the communities they operate.
SUPPORT
Provide timely. appropriate, resources, support, and guidance to empower disabled people, and persons living with challenging conditions to actively succeed in their workplaces and live better lives.
EMBRACE
Enable organisations to improve their productivity and creativity by giving them the tools to embrace diversity in all its forms and build workplace cultures of inclusion and belonging.
Erica Stross
Psychologist PGDip
I work with corporate clients to make their workplaces and services inclusive to disabled people and those living with challenging conditions. As founder of Live.Be I aim to provide and empower corporations, organisations, employers, third parties, suppliers, and stakeholders with the information, resources, support, and guidance they need to meet and raise their diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) provision for disabled people and people living with challenging conditions.
I have a unique blend of experience working with directors, senior managers, and human resource professionals on multi-year programmes to support corporations, organisations, small, and medium-sized enterprises to complete people management deliverables on time and within budget.
Vision
My vision is to help build robust corporations, organisations and communities where disabled people and persons living with challenging conditions can work, make informed decisions, and take control of their futures. I provide senior managers working for corporations and organisations with the latest research-based evidence, so that colleagues responsible for managing and running an organisations occupational health, wellbeing, and DEI programmes have the evidence-based research required to make informed decisions about what specific strategies, programmes, and initiatives work when and have the greatest impact and return on investment for their workplaces.
Values
Empowerment
Belief that all corporations, organisations have the power to take responsibility for and manage diversity, equity, inclusion well within their businesses. Not only to comply with statutory, legal and regulatory requirements, but also to realise the measurable cashflow productivity gains per employee in organisations when they employ a diverse population.
Equity
To advance equitable and inclusive access to resources and opportunities while working to address systematic barriers.
Community
Belief in the power of bringing people together. Capable individuals and engaged colleagues, and citizens lead to stronger communities.
Service
To prioritize the needs of my corporate and organisational clients and stakeholders and respond accordingly.
Integrity
Belief in doing the right thing. At the core of my practice is honesty, transparency, integrity, and accountability.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consultants
Expertise supporting individual clients, corporations, and not-for-profit organisations
Our approach emphasizes how corporate clients can improve performance through a better understanding of some common, but often erroneous, assumptions which surround individuals and employees living with challenging conditions, about what clients can and cannot do.
Consultancy Services
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are not just buzzwords, but a way of life, and should be a core business value of all organizations. We provide advice and information for organizations about diversity, equity and inclusion including bespoke policies, and procedures development. This enables individuals to thrive and organizations to build productive and energized workplaces for all employees.
“We should celebrate neurodiversity – the world would be poorer and life duller if we were all the same.”
Neil Milliken
What we do
Experiences
Resources
Knowledge
Referrals
We share expertise, experiences, resources, knowledge, referrals to facilitate the health and wellbeing of individual and corporate clients. A key component of what we do is working with experts in their respective fields such as Remtek Systems, Group GTI, Breathworks-Mindfulness to ensure their support and services for goals for individual and corporate clients. We believe in actively partnering with the work individuals and organizations are engaged in to support those living life with challenging conditions.
Who We Are and How We Add Value to Organizations and Employees
We are a team, a multidisciplinary consulting firm, offering expertise in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in and outside the workplace. At LiveBe we have developed a network of collaborative partnerships with corporate organizations, SME’s, not-for-profit organizations, educational establishments, and international organizations. This influential network has been established over decades and extends locally, nationally, and abroad to benefit our clients with a wealth of experience and expertise. Our network includes occupational psychologists; educational establishments; natural health and wellbeing providers; and corporate and not-for-profit organizations. For example, we regularly work with other firms and experts offering one-stop-shops to provide assistive technology and ergonomic equipment to businesses and professionals living with challenging conditions.
Corporate Services
Building effective equity and inclusion programmes, policies, and training guaranteed to work
Carrying out psychometric assessments
Providing performance coaching
Strengthening workplace engagement
Providing assessment and development solutions
Increasing team effectiveness
Supporting performance management
Diversity
Diversity is not an important issue; it is the issue. It says everything people need to know about the culture of your organization. And today, culture can be the deciding factor that attracts talent and potential partners to team up with your organization or decide to go elsewhere if your initiatives do not meet their expectations.
Equality
In our experience, organizations appreciate the advantages of developing an equitable, pro-diversity culture, but some of our clients may not know how to develop one. We at Live.Be can show you how to take essential steps to develop one successfully.
Inclusion
Inclusion is about giving equitable access and opportunities to those individuals living with challenging conditions, while removing barriers of discrimination and intolerance.
Call: 07786 258404
Email: erica@livebe.net
Diversity, equity and inclusion consultants supporting clients and individuals in Swindon, Chippenham, Bath, Highworth, Malmesbury, Cirencester, Yate, Bristol and Bath.