What is an inclusion consultancy?
An inclusion consultancy helps organisations embed inclusive practices into everyday ways of working, from strategy through to communication and behaviour change, helping to unlock stronger engagement, better decisions and sustainable business performance.
As Think Inclusion Consulting, I support organisations to embed inclusive practices into everyday ways of working, from strategy through to communication and behaviour change, driving stronger engagement, more effective decision making and improved organisational performance. In practice, this means designing strategies that can be implemented, shaping inclusive communication that reflects how people actually work, and delivering training that goes beyond awareness into real day to day application.
Too often, inclusion activity remains theoretical and disconnected from how organisations operate. My focus is on making inclusion practical, usable and embedded so that people not only understand it, but do something differently as a result.
Hi, I’m Garry Clarke-Strange (He/Him).
Think Inclusion Consulting exists as my way to give a personal service to businesses truly dedicated to creating an environment where their people are supported and can be their true selves.
With a people focussed multi industry career that started in internal Talent Acquisition and expanded over time across HR Delivery, Strategy and Expertise in 2018 I finally understood my true ‘Why’ (Simon Sinek, Start With Why).
That why is ‘People’. Making everyone feel like they can be themselves, Everyday.
By embracing and understanding my own struggles to feel included my passion for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion is now my primary career focus supporting the creation and delivery of proactive strategic plans that lead to a culture of Everyday Inclusion.
As an LGBTQ+ male, from a single parent family who grew up in Ireland the 80s and 90s that now lives successfully with diagnosed Anxiety I know what it feels like to be marginalised and live as a minority.
Prejudice and discrimination still exist. I’m lucky to finally live in a place and time where I can be the best version of me – not a taboo, still a minority but importantly still me. Not everyone is this fortunate and not everyone understands how to be a true ally to help everyone feel included.
I believe in humanising this topic to make sustainable impact by supporting organisations create and make their inclusion strategy and goals a reality
Inclusion only starts to take hold when people actually do something differently.
Case Study – Jigsaw Housing
Jigsaw Homes Group is one of England’s largest housing groups, providing and managing more than 37,500 affordable homes across the North West and East Midlands. With colleagues working closely with residents, communities and customer facing services, inclusion and wellbeing need to feel practical, relevant and connected to real working life.
Since August 2025 I have supported them through two bespoke projects. From the beginning, the relationship has been built around listening, understanding their people and creating content that reflects their sector, their business and the needs of different colleague groups.
The work has included allyship content for colleagues across the business and mental health content developed specifically in response to feedback from trades teams. The focus was never on delivering something generic. It was about creating support that felt credible within a housing environment and gave people practical tools they could use in their day to day work.
For me, this is where meaningful client work becomes commercially valuable. It shows that inclusion and wellbeing support is stronger when it is shaped around the organisation, the audience and the operational reality, rather than lifted from a standard slide deck.
Flexibility has also been an important part of the partnership. For customer facing and operational teams, standard timings do not always work, so sessions were delivered online at the beginning and end of the working day to make it easier for colleagues to attend without disrupting service delivery.
The impact showed the value of taking a bespoke approach. The allyship session achieved an average content rating of 4.5 out of 5, a delivery rating of 4.63 out of 5, and 88% of participants said they had a greater understanding of allyship afterwards. The mental health work also received strong feedback from colleagues and has helped continue the relationship beyond the first project.
Client feedback
“Many thanks as always to Garry Clarke-Strange, who joined us to deliver engaging sessions for our trades teams on mental health topics specific to them. We did this as a response to feedback from colleagues, and this starts a series of content aimed to motivate, engage and educate our colleagues in themes they have asked us to focus on. Great feedback from those who joined the sessions and a relationship we will continue.” Joanne Currie, Director of People Operations
Why this matters
This partnership shows the value of making inclusion and wellbeing practical, relevant and accessible. When content reflects the real experiences of colleagues and is delivered in a way that works around the business, people are more likely to engage with it and organisations are more likely to see the benefit beyond the session itself.
If your organisation wants inclusion, allyship or wellbeing support that is bespoke, commercially relevant and built around your people, I can help you develop a partnership that works for your teams and your business.
