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The Science Behind Career Success 

Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

In the conversation Ali takes a deep dive into Grace's book covering tonnes of behavioural science concepts including how our emotions influence decision making, the relationship between gender and risk aversion and why we procrastinate and fear of failure.

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Global Risk Management, and Diversity and Inclusion in Financial Institutions

The Wall Street Lab, episode 78

Lutfey Siddiqi explores the realm of global risk management and then deep dives into a key ingredient in making financial firms more resilient: inclusion and diversity.

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The Inclusion Initiative: Evidencing the Bottom Line

Inclusive Growth Show, episode 40

Frederick Herbert talks to Toby Mildon about The Inclusion Initiative.

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Privilege & Cognitive Diversity

The Human Risk podcast. episode 60

What is Privilege? It's a word that's being used very frequently, but what is it, why is it undesirable and what can we do about it? Dr Grace Lordan helps answer these questions, also exploring Cognitive Diversity: what is it and why does it matter?

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Inclusion in the workplace

The Human Risk podcast, episode 45

In this episode, Dr Grace Lordan talks about inclusion in the workplace (recorded before organisations started to work remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but still relevant even now).

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Building resilience within work through Behavioural Science

Divercity podcast, series eight, episode 1

In this episode, host Julia Streets is joined by Dr Grace Lordan and Richard Nesbitt. They discuss how financial services is evolving through the use of technology, how emerging talent can build resilience in the working environment, the importance of inclusion at key stages of education, building inclusion into the policy and culture of the workplace, and navigating through toxic cultures.

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Is gender equality possible?

LSE IQ podcast, episode 25

This episode features LSE's Professor Sarah-Banet-Weiser,
Dr Grace Lordan and Dr Shani Orgad, who examine issues of gender inequality in our culture, work and home lives. 

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Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices

Authors: Dr Grace Lordan, Jorn-Steffen Pischke

Economica, posted 16 September 2021

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The Accelerated Value of Social Skills in Knowledge Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Authors: Cecily Josten, Dr Grace Lordan

LSE Public Policy Review, Volume 1-Issue 4- COVID-19 Special Issue, posted 3 May 2021

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Behavioural science and the City

Author: Dr Grace Lordan

Research for the World, posted 12 January 2021

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Let's Talk Careers in a Post-COVID World

Hosted by the Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science  on 16 February 2021

Speakers: Dorie Clark, Dowshan Humzah, Proffessor Connson Locke, Simon Ong, Helen Tupper
Chair: Dr Grace Lordan

The impacts of COVID-19 on career prospects will differ across individuals. In this session we discuss the groups of people who have advanced and those who have been left behind during the pandemic, along with discussing how those who have been left behind can adapt in a post pandemic world.

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A Decade of Behavioural Science at LSE

Event Hosted by the Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science on 20 January 2021

Speaker: Professor Paul Dolan
Chair: Dr Grace Lordan

Paul Dolan reflects on ten years of behavioural science at LSE, discussing biases, narratives, happiness, resilience and more. We summarise the learnings from behavioural science in the last 10 years, drawing from research from LSE and beyond. We also  look to the future, mapping out the most important and exciting areas of study. 

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WIBF opens London’s markets on 26th November 2020 to share Part 1: Changing the Narrative findings

Hear more from Elise Badoy, WIBF’s Head of Research, and a panel of distinguished speakers including David Schwimmer, CEO LSEG and Dr Grace Lordan.

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The Value of Inclusion for a Post-COVID-19 World

Event Hosted by the Inclusion Initiative and the Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science on 25 November 2020

Speakers: Ann Cairns, Ruth Cairnie, Wanda Hope, Lance Uggla, Nate Yohannes
Chair: Dr Grace Lordan

The impacts of COVID-19 within firms include cost-cutting, a move towards virtual working for many workers and the pivoting of business objectives. These impacts of COVID-19 have the potential to erode the gains to inclusive culture that have been made within many firms over the last decade as focus is placed elsewhere. This is at a time when the benefits to having an inclusive culture have never been more needed. In this webinar we bring insights from the academic literature to a panel of diverse leaders and ask them what these insights mean for them in practice.

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Risk Landscape: Review 2020 & Preview 2021

Hosted by Systematic Risk Centre and NUS Risk Management Institute on 23 November 2020

Speakers: Jon Danielsson (SRC/LSE), Peter Giger (Zurich Insurance), Mohit Joshi (Infosys), Grace Lordan (LSE Inclusion Initiative), Sneha Sanghvi (Westpac Banking Corporation)
Chair: Lutfey Siddiqi (LSE & NUS RMI)

Featuring C-suite and senior risk practitioners along with LSE’s Jon Danielsson and Grace Lordan, this panel will take stock of the risk management challenges of 2020 and lessons learnt for the future. Are we framing and approaching risk in the right manner? What has worked and what has not in 2020? What are the practical challenges where the rubber hits the road, and what can academia help with?

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Behavioural Science and a Post-COVID World 

LSE online event on 4 November 2020

Professor Simon Hix chaired a discussion with Professor Paul Dolan, Professor Nick Chater, Dr Grace Lordan, Professor Tali Sharot and Rori Sutherland on the key behavioural insights we can learn from COVID-19 policy responses, and how these could shape future ones for the LSE Shaping the post-Covid World initiative.

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Executive Allies

WorkPride Global conference 2020 by mygwork- panel session on 23 June 2020

This session explores the role of Executives in building a strong culture of inclusivity through allyship. 

Moderator: Jane Hill
Speakers: Antonia Belcher, Deon Pillay, Tim Bardell, Dr Grace Lordan     

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Diversity & Behavioural Science- Why are we so WEIRD?

Nudgestock Global 2020- streamed live on 12 June 2020,
hour 11

Speakers: Cerita Bethea, Dr Grace Lordan, Neela Saldanha.

Timestamp: 3:03:43

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Global Trends & City Effects - What This Means For Boards

Financial Services Club Webinar on 9 June 2020

Covid-19 and its economic effects are not going away anytime soon. They will reconfigure our system, ranging from geopolitical relations to the power of national governments, from company accounts to working patterns. Karina Robinson analyses the new paradigm and figures out what this means for the City and Boards Of Directors.

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Behavioural Science in the Context of Great Uncertainty

LSE online event on 13 May 2020

What lessons can we learn from behavioural science about how we act in a time of crisis characterised by great uncertainty?

Speakers: Professor Nick Chater, Professor Liam Delaney, Professor Paul Dolan, Professor Ulrike Hahn, Dr Grace Lordan

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Using Behavioural Science for Inclusion in the City

Event hosted by LSE Festival: Shape the World on 5 March 2020

A panel discussion on ‘Inclusion in the City’, a report that gives practical insights from behavioural science research to the problems and solutions posed by people who understand the financial and services industry the best: its own talent. 

This event also announced The Inclusion Initiative at LSE.

Speakers:Dr Grace Lordan, Karina Robinson, Brenda Trenowden, Irshaad Ahmad, Richard Nesbitt, Teresa Parker

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Automation of low skills jobs

Ahead of the LSE Festival: Shape the World, Dr Grace Lordan talked about her worst-case scenario for a new world order in 2035.

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Working together; an interdisciplinary approach to organisational culture

Event hosted by Banking Standards Board (BSB), Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) and London School of Economics (LSE) on 14 January 2020

The panel discussion explored the role of behavioural science in improving organisational culture within financial services firms, bringing together academics with senior leaders in finance and financial regulation to discuss how behavioural science can be applied within financial services to the benefit of the sector’s clients, customers and society as a whole.

Speakers: Dame Susan Rice (BSB Chair), John C. Williams (FRBNY President and CEO)

Panel: Grace Lordan, Associate Professor of Behavioural Science at LSE, Celia Moore, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Strategy at Imperial, Martin Oehmke, Professor of Finance at LSE, Tom Reader, Associate Professor of Psychological and Behavioural Science at LSE, Edmund Schuster, Associate Professor of Corporate Law at LSE.

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