Across organisations, leaders have made significant strides in building inclusive policies, frameworks and public commitments. The focus now is on how to ensure inclusion is consistently felt and experienced by people across every role, team and life circumstance.

As inclusion agendas recalibrate for 2026 and beyond, this session brings together leaders who are already doing the work and are now asking this question: how do we strengthen the connection between what we intend and what employees actually experience day to day?

While experiences vary across workforce groups, the opportunity is the same: to build on strong foundations and translate commitment into sustained, human-centred impact. This panel focuses on what’s working, what’s evolving, and how leaders are closing experience gaps through thoughtful action, learning and adaptation. The conversation will explore:

Building on progress: how organisations are refining and strengthening existing inclusion strategies to create greater consistency and impact.
Learning from lived experience: using employee insight and feedback to identify where policy can be improved as an opportunity to evolve.
Responding with confidence and care: how leaders are navigating sensitive moments, including incidents of discrimination or exclusion, in ways that reinforce trust and psychological safety.
Making inclusion operational: practical approaches to embedding inclusion into everyday decisions, leadership behaviours and people processes.
Sustaining momentum: how leaders maintain focus, credibility and engagement as inclusion becomes more embedded and more complex.

Building on the themes explored during the first day, this session is about moving from commitment to maturity; supporting leaders who are already invested in inclusion to go further, faster, and with greater confidence. Delegates will leave with practical insights, shared learning and renewed clarity on how to translate inclusive intent into everyday experience, across roles, teams and organisational systems.

2026 Programme