Speakers

Hannah recently joined Knight Frank as Group Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.  Prior to this she was a Global Director leading the DEI Colleague Engagement strategy as Head of DEI Colleague Engagement at Barclays Bank. In her role at Barclays, she was responsible for global strategic oversight of DEI campaigns, communications, the global employee resource group strategy and responsible for the banks global socio-economic agenda.

Mark Baker has decades of experience connecting business communities to accelerate change.

Mark founded Sircula Ltd to enable B2B communities to connect, learn and grow. In June 2018 Mark launched d&i Leaders to bring together global diversity, inclusion and HR related professionals. Since then, Mark and the team have established an annual programme of strategic in-person and online summits and conferences,

Sámi is an award winning and accomplished Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) and HR professional, recognised for driving organisational success through diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. He is currently the Head of Diversity Recruiting Programs for Amazon Web Services (AWS) across Europe, Middle East and Africa as well as Latin America. Prior to this Sami worked in the energy and engineering industry and has over 20 years’ experience in a variety of international HR roles.

Louisa is Senior Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I), Corporate Social Responsibility, and Sustainability at Hays – covering the Americas region including Canada, the U.S. and Latin American Countries. She specializes in DE&I within the recruitment process, enabling our clients to implement best practices that ensure everyone gets a fair opportunity in the recruitment practices.

Jonny joined Aviva as the Group Head of Talent Acquisition in January 2016 with responsibility for global recruitment, in 2018 he additionally took on the global Inclusion function. In 2021 he became the Diversity, Inclusion Director. Aviva is committed to moving D&I from being initiative led to having an Inclusive culture. He was previously Head of Talent Acquisition at Thomson Reuters (IP&S) for three years where he established a central sourcing hub,

Claire’s passion to influence the way people see themselves and experience the world through media and storytelling is foundational to her role at Warner Bros. Discovery. She has deep experience influencing content, production, talent and culture across the global media landscape, most recently expanding the global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion function across the Disney enterprise before joining WBD April 2022.

I have worked at KPMG within the student recruitment team for 9 years and focussed on our disability strategy during much this time. My current role is to lead and deliver our attraction and outreach strategy. We aim to bring in high calibre talent from a diverse background to our apprentice and graduate programmes. We focus on reaching and then supporting students from unrepresented groups with our application process.

Kate is the EMEA Head of Campus Recruitment, Programs and Talent Attraction at Bank of America. She joined the bank in Hong Kong as a graduate recruiter in 2010 and relocated back to the UK a few years later with her family. Since then she has held a number of roles within the talent acquisition and talent attraction space,

Stephen is a globally recognised diversity, inclusion and leadership expert, and founded Included in 2012. He leads the team and works with leaders around the world to embed inclusive leadership in their decision-making.

From 2007-2012 Stephen designed, led and implemented the inclusion programmes for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games as Head of Diversity and Inclusion for the London Organising Committee.

I believe in people’s potential – whatever their past – to be amazing. The key is in being rooted together, in community. I oversee COOK’s award-winning ‘RAW Talent’ programme, supporting people from prison / homelessness / addiction / mental ill health into meaningful, sustainable work at COOK – the proud winner of one of the last ever Queen’s awards.

Sharlene is an award winning Recruitment leader with over 20 years’ experience in HR and Recruitment. Since joining Selfridges in 2021, Sharlene has been instrumental in making progress towards Selfridges goal of building an inclusive retail culture. She is focused on engaging and educating Selfridges leadership and management, raising awareness around DE&I, inclusive hiring and HR best practices.

Emma left the Army in 2018 after 17 years’ service as a Military lawyer. She embarked on a career in Financial Services with KPMG and law as a Partner with HCR Law. Emma, however had a burning desire to do more for the military community and in June 2020 joined Amazon as the Program Manager for Global Military Affairs,

Raj is passionate about making the business world more human and a firm believer that leadership, employee voice and psychological safety are at the heart of creating a culture where people can be their authentic selves.

As Head of Diversity & Inclusion and Engagement at Direct Line Group, one of the UK’s largest insurers,

Audrey is the EMEA Head of Careers and Skills for Advancing Black Pathways at J.P.Morgan. In her role she is responsible for representation, career growth and skill development of Black professionals. She has over 12 years of experience in the diversity, equity, inclusion, and talent acquisition and has worked at a number of financial services institutions including Goldman Sachs,

Mark is a Manager in the Inclusion, Diversity and Equity (IDE) team at KPMG in the UK. He works collaboratively across the organisation to ensure that IDE is embedded throughout all policies, processes and systems that impact the employee life cycle.

Mark has worked in the team for 5 years and has led on firm-wide initiatives and activity including thought leadership,