Satomi Beyond Bias

Workplace Effectiveness Coaching: The Missing Link Between Reasonable Adjustments and Performance Organisations have made significant progress in recognising the importance of workplace inclusion. More employers are introducing reasonable adjustments , investing in manager training and strengthening wellbeing initiatives. First its important to build thr awareness. These are important steps. Then its implementation. That is where is the problem and the gap. Providing support does not...

When Experience Isn’t Enough I recently met Vanessa (name changed). She gave nearly 20 years to the United Nations.Field missions. Headquarters. Crisis response. Last year, her contract ended. She went home thinking: “I’ll land something soon.” After all, she was experienced. Respected. Highly mobile. She applied across the UN system. The very system she knew how to navigate. Her career coach encouraged her to keep applying. Six months in. Very few interviews. Funding cuts everywhere. Ten...

I’ve spent over 15 years in the world of Talent Acquisition . Across the private sector and the United Nations . I see patterns before people see outcomes. Right now, the pattern is brutal. UN and INGO professionals are exhausted. They’ve applied for dozens—sometimes hundreds—of roles. And nothing is moving. Not because they lack skills. But because the system they are applying into does not understand them . What Actually Happened When the Contracts Ended For many I work with, the loss...