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When you think about inclusive environment design, you might think about creating gender neutral toilets. But what about creating toilets accessible for guide dogs too? If you’re a gay man and a disabled person, where do you go when your LGBTQ+ ERG and your Disability ERG host an event on the same night? In turns out, often our well intentioned inclusion strategies can be exclusive. Toby Mildon is a Diversity and Inclusion Architect at MILDON, formerly D&I lead at Deloitte and the BBC, and a pioneer of intersectionality. We chatted to Toby about: The problem with tackling D&I one underrepresented group at a time How to navigate the tension between benefits that are genuinely inclusive and those that are naturally exclusive, like childcare supplements His thoughts on “people-first” language (and inclusive language in general) Watch out for Toby’s forthcoming book due out in Autumn 2019, tentatively titled Inclusive Growth.