How to be Inclusive in the Workplace

Suswati Basu is a multilingual disabled intelligence expert, journalist, mental health books show podcast host, and award-winning activist.

Suswati has written for the Guardian, Huffington Post, and the F-Word blogs, and has worked for various media outlets such as the BBC, Channel 4 News, and ITV News.

Winner of the Emma Humphries Memorial Prize in 2007, also shortlisted for the Guardian Mary Stott Prize in the same year, and longlisted for the Guardian International Development Journalism Award. She has worked in China, India, and the UK and currently writes on a freelance basis.

As a survivor and thriver from trauma, living with both mental health and physical disabilities, she began the How To Be… podcast looking at helping mental wellbeing through reading and interviewing authors.

Suswati’s Top 3 Tips for asking for support in the workplace:

• Find your advocates
• Communicate what you need
• Remember, there is always a way forward!