Issue #20

Culture Shocks or Culture Rise? Your December Inclusion Toolkit - From The Edges

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As the year closes, many leaders are asking harder questions about culture, trust and inclusion. 2025 showed us that good intentions are no longer enough. Culture is being tested in real time.

This edition of From The Edges gives you our December Inclusion Toolkit so you can be ready to take action.

Start here: Free resources for leaders

We have dug into the research, listened to the stories people shared with us, analysed feedback from our programmes, reviewed social conversations, and gathered insights from leaders across sectors. From a long list of emerging signals, we refined the findings down to the 15 trends every People Leader needs to be ready for in 2026.

These are the trends that will break or build inclusion in the year ahead.

Download the full report here

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Now What Actions Can You Take?

Checklist For Leaders

The report gives you the insights. Now here's the checklist of practical actions you can take. From our report, we have created a list of actions from each of the trends to get you started on your work for 2026.

Download the checklist here

The Allyship Bundle

Allyship is not a badge. It is a skill. Allyship To The Edges is one of our most popular training courses. Run with many clients across sectors and with strong feedback from clients. We are now offering this training as a download with a guide to accompany it, for anyone who wants to take action on their journey to allyship. This bundle helps teams act with confidence when it matters most.

Includes:

• On-demand video training course
• Practical Allyship Guide
• Tools your teams can reuse again and again

Usual value £850.
December price £149.

What Do I Say? Resource

Learning about allyship is one thing, knowing what things to say is another. This guide gives you information on how to hold people accountable and challenge discrimination. This is a clear, practical starting point for leaders and teams who want to move from intention to action in everyday conversations and decisions

Same World, Different Perspective - Special Offer For 10 Companies

Our 'Same World, Different Perspectives' Workshop helps you bring your team together to think about actions you can take.

We live in the same world, but we experience it differently. If we learn about our different perspectives, how can we use that knowledge to create inclusive teams where people communicate and share ideas?

We run this workshop as a:

• 2-hour workshop
• Half-Day Workshop with learning
• Full-Day team day combined with learning on several topics

Special Offer!

We are offering the first 10 companies that respond a special discounted rate on this workshop to kick start your 2026

• 2-hour workshop in person reduced from £950 to £595
• 2-hour workshop online reduced from £850 to £350

The workshop is based around actions, so you can use the time for your 2026 planning for inclusion work. This is an ideal way to start Leaders thinking about the work for 2026, or bring your Employee Group together to kick-start their action planning.

If you want to be one of the 10 companies, email hello@edgeofdifference.com​

Here's the feedback we got from the workshop at Milton Keynes Tech Week...

Pippa Moyle, CEO, City Girl Network

Future Talent Programmes

Several of this year’s Inclusion Trends point to one clear message. The future depends on the talent you are developing right now.

Your future leaders are probably already in your company. If they are not, they have already looked at your culture, assessed your leadership, and decided it does not offer what they expect. Future talent is choosing workplaces with inclusive cultures, meaningful growth opportunities, and leaders who reflect the world they live in.

The next generation leads differently. They expect differently. They decide differently.

We have launched our new Future Talent Programmes to help you identify diverse future leaders, build team environments people want to join, and develop the next generation of leaders with confidence and intention.

Find out more about Future Talent Programmes here

Taking Speaker Bookings For 2026

Have you booked your speakers for your 2026 events? We are bold, thought-provoking speakers who raise the questions others avoid. Our talks spark conversations and actions. We bring sharp insight, challenge, and humour to conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion, turning theory into action and discomfort into progress.

Click here to book us to speak at your event

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Inclusion work in 2026 will not be about saying the right thing. It will be about who is heard, who is missing, and who carries the invisible load. So that's all from us for this December Inclusion Toolkit edition of From The Edges. We will keep sharing stories we find in the news each week in our LinkedIn newsletter. And we will be back in 2026 with stories from the edges to inspire you, and practical actions you can take to drive change.

As we reach the end of the year, we want to say a huge THANK YOU to all of our supporters. We will be back, ready for more in January.

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The Edge Of Difference Team