This interactive seminar session will go through an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) health check for organisations. It will utilise a client case study of an EDI health check, to indicate the types of workplace themes that organisations need to address, including identifying what lived experience is and thinking through how to apply it as a recruitment catergory. Looking at the steps that can be taken in breaking barriers to progression and inclusivity and to reaching new communities internally and externally to the workplace. This includes re-thinking language and reversing the mantra from ‘hard to reach’ to ‘easy to reach’. Finally, part of the session will be used to answer a training provocation, through unpacking the term diversity and our understanding of “what the diverse in diversity actually means?”