Designing, Diversity and Inclusion
summary
Made a BAFTA‑nominated film Black & Scottish and folds that method into a production agency called Create Anything that builds talent pools and casts — a recent Amazon call garners 550 CVS in two days, a 95‑person Black cast and ~20 Black crew on a £65m drama, and trainees who go on to earn ~£300k collectively. Builds Reframe, charges £200–£500 per job post to place candidates, gets a documentary into the Scottish school curriculum.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 6:06Early career racism
- 10:43Lack of representation
- 16:00Diversity challenges Q&A
- 17:30Why diversity initiatives fail
- 21:50Creating Reframe
- 27:26Scaling Reframe’s impact
- 30:59Fostering inclusion
- 34:14Emotional weight of stories
- 37:41Empathy through listening
- 39:47Call to action
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