meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Squiggly Careers

#131 IWD: Engaging men in gender equality

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Management, Careers, Business

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this special episode for International Women's Day, Helen and Sarah talk to two men who champion women in the workplace. First, Helen talks to Josh Graff (UK Country Manager for LinkedIn) about the actions he takes as a leader to support women at work. Sarah then talks to Daniele Fiandaca about Token Man, an initiative he founded to include men in the discussion of diversity and focus on solutions that benefit everyone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Squiggly Careers podcast. It's Helen and I wanted to tell you about what you can expect on this episode. So it's another one in our series of episodes that we've been doing for International Women's Day. Some of the conversations we've had so far, we were talking about taking on taboos with Emma Barnett. We've covered gender portrayal in the media

0:22.1

with Ella Dolphin, who's the CEO of the stylist group. We've covered life at the top,

0:26.8

so the reality of being a female CEO. And that was when Sarah spoke to Dame Sillis Snowball

0:32.1

and lots of other people on that episode two. And we've also talked about creating a gender

0:35.9

balanced workplace. And that's when

0:38.1

Sarah and I spoke to Sue and Catherine authors of the Glass Wall. And also I spoke to Anne Franca,

0:44.0

who is the CEO of the Chartered Management Institute. So if you haven't listened to those,

0:47.9

there's quite a lot to catch up on. But in this episode, we're going to be talking about

0:51.8

how we engage men in gender equality. And we've got two different people, both men, that we spoke to in this episode, we're going to be talking about how we engage men in gender equality.

0:54.6

And we've got two different people, both men, that we spoke to in the episode.

0:58.6

First up, there's a conversation with myself and Josh Graff.

1:01.7

Josh is the UK country manager for LinkedIn, and he's also the VP of Emir and Latam for LinkedIn.

1:07.5

And I talk to him about some of the initiatives that LinkedIn have got in place

1:10.9

and also Josh's position because he's a real advocate for women in the workplace internally and

1:16.0

externally. And in that conversation, I was so struck by his insightfulness, his willingness to share

1:22.5

some of the things that LinkedIn are doing, also some great research that he references as well

1:27.3

from LinkedIn. And we'll put

1:28.6

all of those on the website at Amazingif.com. And also we'll put the links on our bio on Instagram,

1:33.1

if you want to get to any of those. And then after Josh, Sarah speaks to a friend of Amazing If,

1:37.9

Danieli Fiannecca. Danieli's the founder of an organisation called Utopia of a number of

1:43.1

networks. He's a brilliant person for

1:45.3

curating people together. But he's also the founder of something called Tokerman, which is an

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from AmazingIf, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of AmazingIf and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.