Workplace Design – Design Tools and Practice 

17 June 2022

8:30 am:  Registration

9 am – 10:30 am: The creation of shared language and revision of key concepts surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion design and practices. 

 

10:30 am – 11:00 am: Morning Tea 

 

11 am – 12:30 pm: The Aotearoa Inclusivity Matrix (AIM) as a vehicle to ignite change in systems and benchmark progress in diversity and inclusion journeys. 

 

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm: Lunch 

 

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm: The use of design methodologies and approaches to build inclusive systems, solutions and interventions from a new diversity and inclusion management perspective.

 

3:30pm: End of Workshop and Afternoon Refreshments 

 

Dr Guillermo Merelo

Associate Director HR (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion)

The University of Auckland 

 

With a strong background in public management and public policy, Guillermo has worked as a senior public officer, columnist, lecturer and academic researcher in Latin America, Europe and New Zealand. He is a published author on integration and inclusion. His academic work revolves around the value of migrants’ processes of integration to their receiving societies. He is also a HR specialist with more than 20 years of experience in talent management, organisational development and change. 

 

Brought up in a family of strong women and being a member of the LGBTI community, Guillermo truly cherishes diversity and he is convinced that diverse workplaces have the potential to foster understandings of the self and others, unleash organisational potential and make this a better world

 

 

 

Dr. Nata Tolooei 

Research Fellow 

Diversity Works New Zealand 

 

Nata is passionate about translating people’s unmet needs into meaningful experiences and in particular those who likely experience exclusion. As part of her interest in the area of user experience and inclusive design, through her PhD research, she has explored how inclusion and equity can create meaningful experiences for marginalised people and how product design can empower those experiences. 

  

Nata has worked in the field of diversity, equity and inclusion for several years. Before doing her PhD at AUT, she worked on inclusive design projects to develop products and services and taught in this field at Tehran University in Iran.