Position:
Head of Inclusion & Engagement
Company:
TP ICAP Group
Bio:
Claire has a strong professional background in both the public and private sector. Educated at Liverpool John Moores and then Cambridge University, she has worked within the criminal justice system, notably as a Prison Governor, managing a resettlement prison and as a riot commander. She also took on the role as the Equality and Diversity Lead, and later joined the FSA (the UK financial regulator) as Head of Corporate Responsibility and Culture; embedding inclusion, ethical leadership and positive culture into the supervisory framework across the financial sector.
As Head of Inclusive Leadership at KPMG, she led the implementation of a new culture strategy, introduced proportional representation in decision making and realigned the staff networks to add value to the strategy implementation. Within 18 months, the organisation rose over 300 places in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index to 10th and was in the top tier of all of equality benchmarks (gender, race, part time workers and disability). Claire also supported the development of the Global UN Women’s Equality Principles toolkit, working with global NGOs, UN Women and global corporations to create a toolkit that met the needs of all stakeholders and accelerated progress in a meaningful but flexible way.
Wanting to give back to the community, Claire took on the CEO role for 18 months for a small charity Diversity Role Models and within that period, turned it around to a growing, award winning position with increased impact, profile and reach. She then was working as an independent consultant and has supported global large organisations, government agencies, NGOs, charities, universities and schools.
Her current long-term projects include co-founding the Schools Inclusion Alliance (a not for profit supporting schools to be more inclusive), supporting raising inclusion and attainment across Schools in Latin America and supporting the Houses of Parliament as a NED advisor in relation to inclusion and culture.
Until recently Claire was Global Inclusion Lead at Vodafone, where she worked to embed inclusion across their global footprint and bring to life their Inclusion for All agenda of leaving no one behind. Claire recently took up the new role of Head of Inclusion & Engagement at leading electronic market infrastructure and information provider, TP ICAP Group.
Prior to acquiring her disability, Claire had played Rugby Union at premiership and international level. After taking part in a disability sport talent finder event, Claire took up the sport of Sitting Volleyball in 2010 and in 2012 Captained the first ever Paralympics GB Women’s Sitting Volleyball team. In 2014 she extended her sporting achievements to representing GB in the Athletics World Championships (in the seated throws events) and was selected for TeamGB Rio 2016, but had to withdraw due to injury. She is still a core part of the GB Sitting Volleyball team.
In 2017, Claire was awarded an MBE for both her services to Sport and also to inclusion.