About Us
Our mission is to build belonging in workplaces everywhere
What if everyone felt like they belonged in their workplace? If, regardless of heritage, race, gender, sexuality, beliefs or perceived abilities, everyone felt appreciated, accepted and supported to be their best at work, and to do their best work?
There’s plenty of evidence that when this is so, organisations grow. They grow because such an inclusive culture leads to positive impacts on their employee recruitment, engagement and retention goals, as well as their productivity and innovation goals. When these things grow, typically, profit does too.
This is why we’re making it our mission to provide diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging training using drama-based methods that demonstrably increase people’s sense of belonging at work.
We believe that demonstrably increasing people’s sense of belonging at work will lead to The Communication Practice achieving its vision of a world where everyone feels like they belong in the workplace.
Our vision is a world where everyone feels like they belong in their workplace
At The Communication Practice we believe that values are only values when they’re lived. This is why we express each of ours as a call to action and treat them as a compass to guide our behaviour.
In corporate speak, our values are “belonging”, “innovation”, and “compassion”. In The Communication Practice speak they are “building belonging”, “inciting innovation”, and “cultivating compassion”.
Our values are lived
We exist to help co-create a world where everyone feels like they belong in the workplace.
And we’re building a hub of like-minded professionals with deep expertise in DEIB, drama-based corporate training and lived experience to help make this vision a reality.
Our vision and our mission are based on a set of shared values. If they chime with yours, please get in touch.
Our values
Building belonging
Inciting innovation
We bring curiosity and creativity to every interaction so that we continuously improve our services, processes, and outcomes and ensure that everyone feels like they belong.
Cultivating compassion
We listen to, understand, empathise with, and take action to support organisations to ensure all employees feel a sense of belonging within the workplace, regardless of their background or beliefs.
Our story is evolvinG
Have you ever felt excluded – like you don’t belong? Maybe at school, at university, or work? Perhaps even at home? Both Syrus Lowe and Antony Quinn have. This is why, in October 2021, they came together to co-create The Communication Practice. The aim was to bring workplace diversity and inclusive leadership training to life. The underlying belief was that such workplace training would ripple into attendees’ lives and the world.
Here's OUr story
Syrus and Antony met when Antony enrolled in Syrus’s Corporate Role-Play Masterclass in 2020. Their meeting coincided with Syrus walking away from a series of corporate contracts, having experienced biased behaviour he was not prepared to ignore. Simultaneously, Antony was growing increasingly aware of the latent power of neurodiverse teams. While neither had planned to set up a business, both had seen the impact of non-inclusive workplaces and believed that true intersective inclusivity could elevate human behaviour and business performance.
They felt so strongly about this that they decided to do something about it. Blending Antony’s business strategy and technology acumen with Syrus’s experience, expertise, and rich network of professional role-play actors who shared their values, they set up The Communication Practice.
Initially, this diversity, equality, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) company offered one service: the opportunity to practise difficult workplace conversations with a DEIB-trained role-play actor.
Soon, though, they began to win bigger inclusive leadership-related contracts within the NHS and the insurance sector. Core to this success was their ability to create bespoke programmes and recruit brilliant and experienced role-play actors, coaches, facilitators, scriptwriters, producers, directors, and data analysts.
It was clear there was an urgent need for such expertise, and so in 2022, they contracted Nicki Hayes to help clarify their messaging. The intention was to grow their impact.
Since then, they have restructured the organisation as an LLP. Nicki joined the leadership team as the first partner in 2024. As the organisation’s reach and impact grow, Syrus, Antony, and Nicki expect to welcome more DEIB-informed professionals to the team.
Expect more services, thought leadership, and belonging, too. After all, as our story shows, beyond belonging lives growth.