Position:
Founder & CEO
Company:
Charlotte Sweeney Associates
Bio:
Charlotte Sweeney OBE has specialised in leadership, cultural transformation and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) for over 25 years. Inspired by her global corporate career in the Financial Services sector, she launched Charlotte Sweeney Associates in 2012.
As a Chartered Management Consultant, she thrives on empowering business leaders and organisations to create inclusive workplaces. She works, and influences at the C-Suite and Board level in the private sector as well as advised Senior Leaders and Ministers within Governments. She has held several Non-Executive Director roles, including 4 years as a Deputy Chair of an NHS Acute Trust with responsibility of over £500m annual spend. She is currently a board member of the Industry Body ‘Management Consultancies Association (MCA)’.
In 2014 she authored an independent review for the UK Government Secretary of State Dr. Vince Cable on Women on Boards and Executive Search Firms and is the co-author of the Financial Times published book ‘Inclusive Leadership – the definitive guide to developing and executing an impactful Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, locally and globally’, which was shortlisted for Management Book of the Year by The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) in 2018.
In 2025, she won the MCA Inclusion Award and was Finalist for The Times Management Consultant of the Year Award. Judges commented that she had ‘an amazing record of impact with clients, a laser focus on delivering results and changing the way organisations think’.
She was recognised in the New Year Honours 2017 list with Officers of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to Women and Equalities.