Bio

I'm an award-winning senior leader with over ten years’ experience in global and regional Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) in high profile and matrix organisations, often under continual public scrutiny and with outstanding results. Currently working in a global professional services, with a versatile background of senior roles across HR, corporate and financial services in both public and private sectors. Shortlisted as the HR Champion at the European Diversity Awards, I'm a credible subject matter expert, chairing and presenting conferences including delivering the keynote at the CIPD D&I conference in November 21. I'm also an active Chartered CIPD member, MBTI practitioner and ILM7 Advanced Executive Coach and Mentor. I'm currently the Head of ED&I at AECOM for Europe and India - the global civil engineering professional services company with responsibility for creating and implementing global ED&I strategy including: - delivery on ED&I targets including gender and ethnicity in overall and leadership roles, reporting into Global board - programme management across the employee life cycle including talent acquisition, talent management, leadership development, policy and practice - developing inclusive client practice and strategic advisory on both ED&I and ESG, collaborating closely with key strategic clients - formulating ED&I data and dashboards within complex regional legislative framework - creating and developing Employee Resource Groups - thought leadership and coaching with C-Suite and senior leadership teams Previously I was the HR D&I Lead at the Metropolitan Police Service delivering high profile projects at scale including - the first Women Returners Programme at the MPS - Workplace adjustments redesign and introducing disability and carer's passports. - Met Baby - our bespoke parenting support service Whilst at Surrey Police, I designed and implemented a value-added diversity strategy, delivering tangible outcomes including: • Winners at the HR Excellence awards and highly commended for at the CIPD People Management Awards 2016 for increasing Black and Minority Ethnic representation • Achieving the Inclusive Top 50 UK employers list in 2016 I've performed a variety of senior management and consultancy roles including previously leading on learning and development and project manager of a major change programme. I've also worked in financial services, as both operations manager and trainer, developing employees to achieve personal objectives and maintain high business performance.