Description
The King’s Fund, a leading independent health charity, recognised that while many organisations speak of diversity and inclusion, few succeed in translating EDI principles into tangible, everyday behaviours. In the face of growing global scepticism about EDI’s impact, the Fund sought to go beyond policies and statements to create lasting culture change.
With five Employee Network Groups representing a third of their workforce, The King’s Fund partnered with CMP to empower these groups’ volunteer leads with the skills and confidence needed to influence upwards, navigate sensitive conversations, and drive meaningful inclusion.
CMP’s Harnessing Difference programme offered network leads quarterly training sessions on courageous conversations, self-awareness, empathy, and feedback. It helped shift the Fund’s culture from fragmented and reactive, to one where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is lived.
Key Services
- Bespoke Harnessing Difference programme across a 12-month cycle
- Soft-skills training in influence, empathy, and managing upwards
- Supportive, long-term partnership with dedicated CMP specialist
- New Allyship group and intersectional collaboration between networks
- Inclusion embedded in performance metrics and leadership practice
“The Harnessing Difference work with CMP has given us confidence and the soft skills that we might not have developed, or typically needed, in our day-to-day job. Crucially they showed us how leadership is not just about what official position someone has in a structure but their skills and what they do.”
Co-chair of the Gender Equity NetworkThe King's Fund
