Position:
Director - Gender Leadership and Inclusion Centre
Company:
Cranfield University, School of Management
Bio:
Deirdre is an experienced occupational psychologist and researcher with expertise in inclusive leadership, gendered working practices, flexible and hybrid working, and work/family challenges in varying cultures. She is an Academic Fellow of the CIPD, a Chartered member of the British Psychological Society, a member of the EDI Committee to the Chartered Association of Business Schools, and Co-Chair of the Academic Advisory Board to Working Families. Deirdre teaches at post-graduate level, and in Executive Education, working with clients to challenge, review and develop their approaches to more inclusive cultures through individual actions and organizational practices. Prior to her move into academia at Cranfield University, she spent over 20 years working within organizations and then as an independent consultant and trainer in the private sector.