Fearless Diversity
Rachel Cashman and Simon Fanshawe
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Leaders are faced with dilemmas every day that flow from human interactions at work. And they are so often disruptive, time-consuming, potentially create division among your staff and test you as a leader. You need time to reflect…..you need space in the morning to listen to Rachel Cashman and Simon Fanshawe eating these problems for breakfast. Fearless Diversity is the candid podcast that tackles the real dilemmas bosses, managers, and leaders face every day – around accountability, decision-making, workplace dynamics, conflict, and organisational culture and their people. Join Rachel Cashman and Simon Fanshawe — two of the foremost thought leaders in workplace diversity, leadership, and inclusion — as they dive into honest conversations that get to the heart of it. We have the conversations you want to have.
Rachel brings real-world, high-level implementation experience - expertise that CEOs and managers can trust, learn from, and enlist when they need results and to ensure their teams perform at their best. Simon adds his clout as a highly respected broadcaster, author, and inclusion specialist. They don’t always agree — and that’s the point. Rachel and Simon argue, disagree, and explore different perspectives, and always with resolution and insight – modelling the difficult conversations leaders need to have. It’s a podcast for thoughtful leaders who want to reflect, rather than shout or be shouted at. Fearless Diversity is the place to think differently about today’s trickiest human issues at work.
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Recent Episodes
S2E14 12 Days of Fearless Diversity Xmas
It’s Christmas. It’s almost the end of the year and it’s the latest episode of Fearless Diversity.Rachel and Simon polish off the twelve days of Christmas with their final six key issues of 2025. In…
S2E13 12 Days of Fearless Diversity Xmas
In this week’s episode, Rachel and Simon pull on their Christmas jumpers and look back at a year of fearless diversity. But instead of a partridge, turtle doves, French hens, calling birds, gold…
S2E12 Taking Down the Wall
Tearing Down the Wall: A Fearless Diversity Look at Fairness Three kids, a wall, and those famous different-sized “equity” boxes. Helpful metaphor or the reason that to so many leaders and colleagues…
S2E11 Jacqui Gavin
In this special Fearless Diversity episode, we press pause on the culture war and lean into a quieter kind of courage: listening.Rachel and Simon are joined by Jacqui Gavin BEM, a trans woman, former…
S2E10 Bashing the Beeb
“A crisis of trust at the BBC” The BBC is weathering one of the fiercest storms in its modern history. The now-infamous Prescott memo, an “egregious” Trump edit, open rows over coverage of the…
S2E9 Racism Culture Wars
On November 1st at about 7o’clock a man, now identified as Anthony Williams, is alleged to have stabbed eleven people on a train from Doncaster to Kings Cross. The grainy footage showed that he was…
S2E8 Whats the point of HR?
When HR leaders become the organisation’s emotional shock absorbers, who absorbs the shock for them and how do we keep culture lawful, human, and high performing?In a post-pandemic world of blurred…
S2E7 Crises of Trust
CRISIS OF TRUST: HOW TO FIX WHAT'S BROKEN IN BRITAIN'S BOARDROOMS, BEDROOMS AND BEYOND Trust is in dangerously short supply these days. From politics to once-dependable institutions and even within…
S2E6 Battling The Battle of Ideas
This week, Simon & Rachel get gloriously uncomfortable.It’s a rollicking debate with sharp edges, full-throttle disagreement in part, and one very live question who’s it actually worth arguing…
S2E5 The Limits of Identity
Fearless Diversity: Identity, Civility, and the Courage to Disagree At a time when public debate feels less like dialogue and more like a contest over whose feelings matter most, Simon and Rachel…
S2E4 Manchester Synagogue Attack
Recorded on Tuesday 7 October 2025, this episode confronts the murders at Heaton Park on Yom Kippur and the sharp rise in antisemitism in the UK. We name the harm plainly and we hold the line between…
S2E3 ID cards. Convenience or control?
In this episode of Fearless Diversity, Rachel Cashman - the fearless facilitator - and Simon Fanshawe - the diversity dissident - tackle one of the most contentious policy revivals in years: the…
S2E2 Flags
Simon and Rachel wade into flags, patriotism and nationality. At the moment flags are everywhere – at football matches, street parties, protests, Pride and, lately, at the heart of raging debate…
S2E1 Words, Violence, and the Tribe
Fearless Diversity — Series Two Premiere Title: “Words, Violence, and the Tribe: Beyond the Workplace”Series Two is here. Rachel Cashman, your Fearless Facilitator, and Simon Fanshawe, the Diversity…
S1E13 Does Age Matter?
In the week that Parliament decided to give the vote to sixteen year olds, welcome back to Fearless Diversity, the podcast where age isn’t just a tick-box in the census, it’s the parent, the baby,…
S1E12 Let’s Be Honest: The conversation on immigration is neither neat nor simple.
Let’s Be Honest: The conversation on immigration is neither neat nor simple.So in this episode, Rachel and Simon wade straight into the mess of history, aspiration, personal fear, good intentions and…
S1E11 Free to Say What? Glastonbury, Censorship and the BBC Blues
After explosive scenes at Glastonbury and two alarming reports detailing “cancellation” and fear sweeping through both publishing and the arts, Fearless Diversity dives into the complex world of…
S1E10 PIP PIP Hooray .
PIP PIP Hooray - Disability: People, Potential, and the Art of the Possible Welcome to Fearless Diversity the podcast that tackles the tricky bits of life in work and has the conversation that you…
S1E9 Why are we all so scared to talk about race?
Let’s face it: conversations about race make even the most fearless among us uneasy, awkward or just very nervous. In this episode of Fearless Diversity, Simon Fanshawe (Diversity Dissident) and…
S1E8 FAIL or First Attempt In Learning?
Join Simon Fanshawe, the Diversity Dissident, and Rachel Cashman, the Fearless Facilitator, as they boldly dive into one of everyone's least favourite topics: Failure! With wit, honesty, and plenty…
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Fearless Diversity has published 28 episodes since April 2025, covering topics in Business, Management.
Fearless Diversity is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 53m.
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