Jasmine Gartner

Member Since: 26th Jun 2013
Columnist
Jasmine has lived in London since 2008, and has worked extensively all around the UK, speaking about and developing, designing and delivering training on employee engagement, information & consultation, cross cultural awareness, unconscious bias and diversity and inclusion. She is the author of Employee Engagement: a little book of Big Ideas.
Training consultant Jasmine Gartner Consulting
19th Jun 2020
Creating a company culture: a collaborative storytelling approach
When discussing the idea of company culture , it’s helpful to imagine the process of writing. For me, this often starts with a vague idea,...
Culture
9th Apr 2020
How HR as the ‘critical friend’ can combat unconscious bias
Imagine the job of senior leaders in the best of times: their job is to make decisions about the future, which – because it hasn’t happened...
Change
6th Mar 2020
Diversity and inclusion: systemic inequality and the issue of ‘covering’
Inclusion and belonging can be what are known as ‘suitcase’ words – they are a bit subjective, and you have to unpack them to get at what...
Culture
13th Feb 2020
Remove unconscious bias by creating a socially responsible business culture
It has often been pointed out that unconscious bias training doesn’t work, and this is indeed the case when training is just used to point...
Culture
23rd Dec 2019
Unconscious bias: How systemic inequality is destroying employee wellbeing
What is wellbeing ? As an anthropologist, I wouldn’t locate wellbeing purely within the individual; wellbeing is linked to our social and...
People
30th Sep 2019
Employee engagement: why small businesses need to do it too
Years ago, I did a talk on employee engagement for small businesses . At the end, one of the participants came to speak with me. He ran a...
Employees
9th Apr 2019
Disconnecting belonging from exclusion to create workplace harmony
Is there an untethered link between belonging and exclusion? And, if so, how can we break apart these polarities to create truly inclusive...
Culture
4th Feb 2019
Company culture: why employee experience can't exist in a vacuum
As the focus shifts from employee engagement to employee experience, HR practitioners must not forget that the deeply ingrained culture of...
Employees
9th Aug 2018
Employee engagement pitfalls: how can we make it more human?
All too often organisations treat employee engagement as a box ticking exercise, but true engagement is about fostering an ongoing two-way...
Employees
5th Jan 2018
Don't go with your gut: overcoming unconscious bias in hiring decisions
Years ago, a friend of mine, Helen, went for a job interview. It was for a Swiss arts and cultural organisation, and Helen was half Swiss...
Acquisition