“70% of Millennial employees believe they can make an even greater impact on our world than the leaders who run organisations.”
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*Weber Shandwick: Employee Activism in the Age of Purpose
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We are a learning hub for employee-led change. We embolden professionals to confidently organise and take positive action around climate change and social justice in their workplaces.
No more operating undercover. It’s time for out-in-the-open conversations. Want to know how an activist mindset can help you mobilise, organise and drive positive change from within?
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Sign up for our online course in positive workplace activism. Or hire us for in-house programs, workshops and inspiring talks.
"THE MOST COMMON WAY PEOPLE GIVE UP THEIR POWER IS BY THINKING THEY DON’T HAVE ANY."
Alice Walker
What is EMPLOYEE Activism?
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Young leaders today long to drive real change. You no longer tolerate social inequities and environmental degradation as a result of business-as-usual and want to be part of the solution. You are the impact generation. A growing generation sparked by an activist mindset. Organizing is happening in private, in schools and on the streets. Your workplace is only the next step.
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The purpose of workplace activism is to make the workplace a place for positive change. A place that supports actions that are transparent in their aims and serve the agenda of uplifting the collective, reducing inequalities and respecting and regenerating the planet. ​
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We facilitate conversations and constructive dialogue between senior management and employees. We help to bridge the divide in organisations. Make companies more ambitious and accelerate positive change.
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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
From the individual to the collective
CHANGing the business
we're starting with 10 strategies TO support activist leaders to act with confidence and courage.
Change is an ongoing process, not a quick fix. Our approach looks at three areas of development commonly referred to as leading self, leading others and leading the system. Each strategy for change reflects an area of growth that can help you become more effective. You can start your journey today by looking through the strategies page for insights. Discover the power of listening, engaging others through organising principles and learn about the energy hidden in resistance
“ACTIVISM IS LOVE MADE VISIBLE”
Online course
positive workplace activism
Register for a 6-week guided online course and you'll join a cohort of purpose-driven professionals and learn positive activist strategies to change your company from within. Well support you in creating your action plan and feel ready to taking your nextid next step to making the organisation you work for more sustainable and inclusive.
You'll go through 6 online modules and work with your closed peer group during weekly, interactive sessions. Next cohort: Sept 29th - 8th November
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The content offers real business activist stories, explainer videos, reflection exercises and a 100-page reader to help you on your journey. ​
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Ready to get into necessary Trouble?
You want to get better at speaking up in your organisation about things that matter?
Join one or all five of our gatherings - a series of masterclasses designed by the Undercover Activist in collaboration with Disrupt Development - and focussed on how you can use your voice to start shifting power and speaking up.
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Troublemaking Tuesdays:
17th October - Psychological safety
31st October - Storytelling
14th November - Dialogue for change
28th November - Comfortable with discomfort
12th December - Cultivating change together
Our Podcast on Employee Activism
With many businesses confused about what ‘doing good’ means, employees are stepping up and pressuring their organisations to act on behalf of an interest greater than their company’s profits.
In a two-part podcast, Tessa Wernink co-founder of the Undercover Activist and Kwame Ferreira, founder of Impossible get together to explore what innovators and activists have in common. Listen to a range of activists and experts who are challenging current norms and speaking up in the face of questionable leadership. Their resistance to the current system is a first step to believing we can be part of change when we bring our values and action to the workplace.
Available on all podcast players.