For many years I have been working with people to help them overcome their own barriers when working with people who are different from them, and helping them to value and celebrate diversity in all its forms. Inevitably, however, concentration on difference – however positive – keeps us separate from each other, and so I have been looking at ways in which we can move from diversity to unity. Just as I see diversity underpinning equality, so I believe unity underpins diversity.

During the same time that I was wondering where diversity work could go to now, two other things happened – one personal and one professional. The personal was my ordination in 1998 as an Interfaith Minister committed to spiritual awakening in myself and others – irrespective of religious persuasion. The professional thing was a growing awareness in organisations of the importance of employee support packages and the desire to truly take care of people so that the community of the workplace could flourish and be more productive. So I came to a realisation that the work that I wanted to do in organisations was in the area of spirituality and concerned with feeding people’s souls.

Domino Perspectives is dedicated to helping organisations to provide an environment in the workplace for nurturing the spirits of individuals

Geraldine Bown is the founder of The Domino Consultancy Limited, established in 1986; a former President of the European Women's Management Development Network; the current Vice-President of the European Institute for Managing Diversity.

In the last 20 years Geraldine has presented and run seminars all over the world. She has also co-authored three books written for women managers, published by Kogan Page which are now translated into Chinese, Spanish, Indonesian, German, Bulgarian and Czech. She also co-authored one on managing home and work for BBC Publications which accompanied a BBC programme featuring her and her family. Her latest book entitled “From Diversity to Unity” was published in May 2003.

In the last twelve years, Geraldine has become increasingly interested in the area of spirituality at work attending conferences in Mexico and Boston on the topic of Spirituality in Business. She now includes modules on “Working From The Heart” and “The Spiritual Basis For Leadership” on personal development and leadership courses.

Personally, Geraldine is a Reiki practitioner and in September 1998 was ordained as an Interfaith Minister and Spiritual Counsellor. She is available to conduct services and ceremonies including blessings or naming of children, weddings, funerals and other rites of passage ceremonies.