Diversity is a 'no brainer' – video transcript

Watch Belinda Watton talk about the benefits of workforce diversity.

[Belinda Watton, Executive General Manager, Yurika]

It’s an incredible event and a wonderful initiative from the Queensland Government.

With the ambitions we have as a state in Queensland, resources are critical to that and we know that we’re currently in a resource shortage, so to be able to have conversations around attraction and retention, workforce planning, how we can be more diverse and inclusive for all of the different employers and industry groups here I think is a real gift and it's a really important conversation that we need to have.

For organisations to truly thrive in terms of their ambitions, as employers we need to look at what we offer and how we present ourselves differently.

So from a structural perspective, particularly in male dominated workforces, we really need to challenge ourselves around how we can actually break that nexus and get better gender balance overall.

The business case for diversity has been made for such a very long time. The ability to have people who think different, who look different, who have got different perspectives, come from different backgrounds, different genders, different experiences, allow us to have richer conversations, better problem solving in the workplace and overall better outcomes both for those people in the business and the customers and the communities we’re serving.

So for me, diversity is such a no brainer.

Watch Belinda Watton talk about the benefits of workforce diversity.