Agenda

PRESENTATION OF GED AWARDS

The Noon Award

Transparency Award

Research Award

Impact Award

UEL Chancellor’s Award

Chair: Simon Fanshawe OBE

Partner, Diversity by Design

Introduction: Lord Patel of Bradford OBE

The Noon Foundation

Tearing Down The Glass Pyramid: Why Leaders Finally Need to Embrace Transparency and Diversity

Ann Francke

Chief Executive, CMI Women in management face twin problems: a gender pay gap and a systematic under-representation at senior levels of British organisations. The government’s decision requiring large companies to report on how they pay men and women from 2017 has seen the gender pay gap rocket up the business agenda. But how many have truly embraced transparency to drive diversity?

This seminar will outline why business leaders should get on the front foot by embracing transparency to drive change, look at how far employers are succeeding in tackling the twin challenges around pay and under-representation, and make the case that diversity delivers results.

Best practice case study of a staff diversity network – Religion & Ethnic Minority (REM) Network, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)

Ryan Tinggal

Head of Office of the Chief Scientific Advisor, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS); Member, Executive Committee, REM Network, BEIS

Advancing EDI

Sophie Lea

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Advisor, Mott MacDonald

Nadine Brody

Principal Transport Planner, Advance Champion, Mott MacDonald

Diversity & Inclusion: Marginal or Mandatory?

Wendy Lasebikan

Director of HR/Corporate Office, Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE)

Natasha M Levanti

Group Communications Executive, Association for Consultancy and Engineering (ACE)

From Theory to Practice: Implementing Inclusive Leadership in Your Organisation

Anne-Marie Senior

Consultancy Manager, ENEI In 2015 ENEI commissioned a major piece of research that examined what inclusive leadership means in practice and what the impact of inclusive leadership is on organisational performance.

Hear key findings, together with a number of case studies from public and private sector organisations, demonstrating how you can help to embed the principles and practices of inclusive leadership in your organisation.

Remodelling Academic Appraisal

Dr Caroline J Cripps

Contract Researcher, Sheffield Hallam University

Is Our House In Order? Exploring the Experiences of Inequality in the HR Profession

Elaine Yerby

Senior Lecturer, University of East London

Diversity in the Legal Profession: A Personal Story

Funke Abimbola FRSA (Solicitor)

General Counsel & Company Secretary (UK & Ireland), UK Corporate Compliance Officer; UK Data Protection Officer, Roche Products Limited

Demonstrating impact in the NHS: workplace experience of staff with disabilities

Mohamed Jogi

Programme Manager, NHS Employers

Kate Milton

Senior Manager, Equality and Health Inequalities, (Workforce, Training and Delivery), NHS England

Demonstrating Due Regard: Rethinking Equality Impact Assessment

Professor Hazel Conley and Lucy Rees

Senior Lecturer, Centre for Employment Studies Research, University of the West of England

Embracing Transparency and Demonstrating Impact at Network Rail

Frances McAndrew

Programme Manager (Diversity and Inclusion), Network Rail

Using equality and diversity data to inform ‘success for all’ students

Michael Kerrigan

Strategic Data & Intelligence Manager (Widening Participation & Student Success), Nottingham Trent University

Diversifying the Supply Chain in a Global Organization

Varaidzo Mumbire

UK TSC Public Sector & Ireland Business Services Buyer, UKI Supplier Diversity Lead, Global Procurement, Transformation and Operations IBM UK Ltd

Kerri-Anne Norris

Software Sourcing Buyer, IBM UK Ltd

Managing maternity leave and pregnancy in your workplace

Quinn Roache

Equality and Human Rights Commission

This workshop will discuss practical steps employers can take to retain new and expectant mothers. We will highlight the steps household name employers are taking to tackle this persistent issue and provide attendees with an opportunity to develop practical and pragmatic solutions they can implement within their workplaces.

Beyond EQ: The Need for Cultural Intelligence

Julia Middleton

Chief Executive Officer, Common Purpose UK

“Breaking bad”: One manager’s journey from oblivious to active D&I sponsor. Learn how technology creates new neural networks for your organisation

Hayley Sudbury

Founder and CEO, WERKIN

If you want to change the numbers you have to change what you are doing

Simon Fanshawe OBE

Partner, Diversity by Design Exploring an original approach to achieving greater diversity – both tackling the diversity deficit and reaping the diversity dividend.

Exploring the Impact on Policy and Practice Resulting from Engagement with the Athena Swan Charter Self-assessment Process in a ‘post-92 university’

Jill Collins

Project Manager, Women in SET, Sheffield Hallam University

Helen Best

Deputy Dean, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, Sheffield Hallam University

A Two-way Process: Playing the Numbers Game with Diversity

Alice Streatfeild

Research Director, ORC International

How Transparency Can Drive Productivity: Closing the Gender Pay Gap

Sam Smethers

Chief Executive, The Fawcett Society

Men in Management

Michael Lassman

Director, Equality Edge

Shared parental leave is a nice idea – but will it work?

Dr Jana Javornik

Acting Director, The Noon Centre for Equality and Diversity in Business, University of East London

Mark Smith

Managing Director, Accenture UKI’s Health & Public Sector

Clare Matysova

Athena Swan Project Officer, University of East London

Shared parental leave represents a policy milestone to enable working fathers to take a more active role in caring for their children. But a number of niggling issues have arisen, and the extension of women’s parenting rights to fathers is so far proving limited. Why?

This seminar explores why this should be the case and the challenges and opportunities that shared parental leave represents.