Sanchia Alasia

Sanchia Alasia

Sanchia Alasia Mayor of Barking and Dagenham Sanchia Alasia is the mayor for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. An award winning specialist in equality diversity and Human Resource she was first elected to the the Council in 2010. She has held a number of positions – School Governor, chair of the health and…

Sajjad Iqbal

Sajjad Iqbal Director The Centre for Inclusive Leadership (TCfIL) Sajjad joined TCfIL after a career in the Public Sector that included stints with Local Authorities, NHS Primary Care Trusts, Ambulance Service NHS Trusts, and large NHS Acute Trusts. During this time, he had successful appointments as Assistant Director Human Rights and Organisational Development and Associate…

Simon Fanshawe OBE

Simon Fanshawe OBE

Simon Fanshawe OBE Broadcaster and co-founder Diversity by Design Simon Fanshawe OBE is a co founder and partner of Diversity by Design a ground breaking consultancy that works with organisations to develop diversity solutions to strategic questions in order to build greater performance. www.diversitybydesign.co.uk Our current clients include: Sheffield, Cardiff, Kingston, Hertfordshire Universities, FirstGroup, Costa,…

Dr Omar Khan

Dr Omar Khan

Dr Omar Khan Director Runnymede Trust Omar is Runnymede’s Director. Prior to this he was Runnymede’s Head of Policy and led the financial inclusion programme. Omar’s other advisory positions include chair of Olmec, chair of the Ethnicity Strand Advisory Group to Understanding Society, chair of the advisory group of the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity at the University of Manchester, Commissioner on the Financial…

Claudia Iton

Claudia Iton

Claudia Iton Diversity and Talent Management Specialist Claudia Iton is an HR consultant and coach in the areas of Talent Management and Diversity & Inclusion. She has had an extensive corporate career, with 25+ years at Unilever in local, regional and global HR roles, up to senior director level. She sits on the board of…

Christine Armstrong

Christine Armstrong

Christine Armstrong Author, ‘The Mother of All Jobs: How to have Children and a Career and Stay Sane(ish)’ Contributing Editor, Management Today Christine Armstrong is a writer, speaker and adviser to business leaders on the future of work. She is a contributing editor of Management Today, has three daughters and is, against her own advice, an active member…

Dr Jill Armstrong

Dr Jill Armstrong

Dr Jill Armstrong Bye Fellow and Researcher for Collaborating with Men Project Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge Jill Armstrong is a Bye-Fellow at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. Her research specialism is gender equality and inclusion within organisations. She leads and has authored two reports on the ‘Collaborating with Men’ research project that…

Bee Rowlatt

Bee Rowlatt

Bee Rowlatt Writer and Journalist Author of In Search of Mary Bee Rowlatt is a writer and broadcast journalist. Her award-winning book In Search of Mary was described by the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen as “terrific – quite unlike anything I’ve read before.” She co-wrote the best-selling Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad, and is…

Mary Bright

Mary Bright

Mary Bright External Liaison Lead for CEO UK Insurance, Aviva Mary is External Liaison lead for Andy Briggs, CEO UK Insurance at Aviva and the Government’s Business Champion for Older Workers. Mary is responsible for Andy’s external agenda including the work to meet his goal to have 1 million more people over 50 in good…