Workplaces
We’ve surveyed hundreds of employees on what holds them back from intervening at work and consistent themes return: being unsure if the behaviour was really harmful, fear of hostility, and risks to own career are all common barriers.
And it makes sense that people can feel inhibited from intervening – workplace relationships matter – for wellbeing and productivity – so getting interventions right is critical.
Our workplace programmes equip participants with the knowledge and skills to overcome the barriers and hold those tricky conversations that are crucial to shaping healthier and more inclusive cultures.
What we offer
From in-person to online training, eLearning to bespoke consultancy and across multiple sectors, were committed to finding a solution that works for your specific context.
Our core workplace offer includes three evidence-driven bystander intervention programmes:
Bystander at Work®:
building inclusive cultures through bystander intervention
Stepping Up to the Duty: preventing sexual harassment at work
Kindling Transformative Conversations
Get in touch to discuss the right approach for your organisation.
Bystander at Work® – building inclusive cultures through bystander intervention
Research suggests that awareness raising – such as diversity and unconscious bias training – is insufficient to enable people to act to challenge discrimination at work.
In fact, awareness training in isolation can even inhibit positive action by increasing employees’ fear of getting it wrong.
Bystander at Work® addresses this head-on – engaging with the group psychology which otherwise inhibits intervention, and providing practical strategies for action. Through realistic scenarios tailored to your workplace, participants leave feeling confident to intervene skilfully and in ways that create lasting change.
Stepping Up to the Duty – preventing sexual harassment at work
The worker protection Act 2023 (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) places a duty on employers to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment at work.
But what are reasonable steps to prevent?
Our Stepping Up to the Duty training applies this proven bystander intervention approach to preventing sexual harassment in the workplace.
Participants learn to identify and respond to actual sexual harassment – and more than this, they understand how lower-level behaviours (like everyday sexism) can create a culture where a minority believe that sexual harassment is tolerated.
By addressing these low-level foundations, we can prevent sexual harassment at work.
Kindling Transformative Conversations
Holding difficult conversations at work is an art and a skill. Whether addressing harm, setting boundaries, or navigating conflict, these moments are often avoided — not because people don’t care, but because the risks feel high and the path forward unclear.
Based on over two decades of experience and grounded in evidence from psychology and conflict resolution, Kindling Transformative Conversations equips participants with practical frameworks for approaching challenging conversations with clarity, care and confidence. The training attends to real-world workplace dynamics, including power, emotion and uncertainty, and supports communication that reduces defensiveness and opens the possibility of change.
Through guided reflection and realistic practice, participants build the skills to address issues early, prevent escalation, and contribute to more respectful, resilient workplace cultures.
How we work
Whether responding to microaggressions or preventing sexual harassment, workplace interventions require skill – and skills are honed through practice.
We use practical and interactive, scenario-based learning that’s bespoke to your sector and employee experience.
Participants leave with a set of practical tools and the confidence to make positive change.
Our workplace programmes are rooted in the evidence base for effective bystander intervention training and deploy the key features of effective training:
- Designed by credible experts
- Delivered by highly-skilled facilitators
- Use of positive, strengths-based approaches
- Of sufficient duration (training ‘dose’)
- Working with leaders and/or respected mentors
- Rigorously evaluated
Every workplace is different. We survey staff within your organisation/sector prior to training development. The results are used to cultivate reflection on ‘what happens here?’ and to create bespoke relatable scenarios based on actual employee experience.
When it comes to quality training, one size doesn’t fit all.
All of our trainings begin from the perspective of the positive values held by your organisation. Our job is simply to help you put these into practice. By starting ‘values-based’, we build a positive group culture – one in which people feel empowered to look out for one another. As research demonstrates, one person intervening can change the group norm and show others that it’s okay to speak up.
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