WorkPride 2023: Focus Panels for Communities: Bi-Inclusion

Biphobia is an issue that permeates outside of, as well as within, the LGBTQ+ community. Bisexuality, as an umbrella term that accommodates a broad spectrum of sexualities, is often misunderstood and actively maligned at all levels by people. This panel will hear from Bisexual people about their lived experiences, thoughts, the obstacles the community still faces, and how we can all do more to combat biphobia and build bi-inclusive spaces.

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Belton Flournoy

Managing Director
Protiviti

In addition to being a Managing Director in Protiviti’s Technology & Digital consulting practice, Belton is founder of Protiviti UK's LGBT+ group, which won best LGBT+ network in 2019 by the Inclusive Tech Alliance. Belton was shortlisted as a top 10 inspirational business leader in 2020 by the British LGBT+ awards, was recently listed as #18 on Yahoo Finance’s Top 100 Future Leaders, #15 on Yahoo Finance’s Top 100 Ethnic Minority Leaders and was featured on the top UK Black Role models, presented by Google. Belton was co-founder of Pride in the City with Pride in London where he ran a Mayor backed initiative dedicated to increasing diversity and inclusivity across London businesses.  In January 2021, Belton joined The Inclusion Initiative (TII) at the London School of Economics as an Advisory Board Member supporting their three-year innovative partnership programme bringing together research and practice to build more inclusive work environments. He has over a decade of experience supporting clients with deploying strategic solutions across some of the world’s leading financial services institutions, while maintaining a strong passion for ensuring diversity and inclusivity remain high on organisations business agenda.  He is extremely passionate about intersectionality, where he believes it is each person’s role to support other groups who are in the minority – “after all, we don’t want to preach to the converted, we want to educate and inspire people to be more aware and inclusive.” Belton also acts as an adviser to the UK Multicultural network, proCulture. He has experience delivering Cyber Security, Customer Experience, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Spreadsheet Risk and Compliance/Regulatory Risk programs across Europe. He has managed global teams across large organisations, as well as supporting small and medium-sized organisations to implement fit-for-purpose solutions. Protiviti is a global consulting firm that delivers deep expertise, objective insights, a tailored approach and unparalleled collaboration through consulting solutions in finance, technology, operations, data, analytics, governance, risk and internal audit. Please do not contact me if you require financial support.

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Katie Birchall

HR Business Partner - Support Centre
Whitbread

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Laura McLean

Talent Manager | Mindset Coach | Trustee | Behavioural Chang
Santander UK

Laura is a creative leader with a collaborative style and an ability to bring diverse groups together. She has an exceptional track record of leading business functions through critical transformational change and creating an environment of psychological safety, anchored in honesty, trust and professional integrity. Within her role as Strategic Talent Manager at Santander UK, she is passionate about helping others understand what it takes to excel at executive level and deliver in a person centred way. She is energised by creating a legacy of resilient and strong willed individuals and organisations who hold a belief that it’s because of who people are, that they can achieve anything they want. Part of the leadership teams for Santander UK’s Women in Business and Embrace (LGBTQIA+) Networks, she is driven to bring her life experiences as a mixed race, adopted, bisexual, neurodivergent human to uplift and empower those around her. Within her local community she is a Youth Mentor with YMCA Milton Keynes and a Trustee Board Member of Milton Keynes Community Foundation.

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Kevin Lyons

Senior Human Resources Manager
Pearson

I am a highly experienced Human Resources professional and a commentator on HR trends and topics. I have greatly enjoyed my extensive career in Human Resources with successful companies. My passion is Talent, and what I see as the key pillars of inclusive Talent Management, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion combined with Learning & Development and Wellbeing. I am also fascinated by the impact of technology on HR, organisations and wider society, and as a History graduate I believe strongly in evidence based management.

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Alexis Hedgeland

Senior Specialist, Global Vaccines Commercial Operations
Merck

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Weronika Marcinek

Client Finance Manager
OMD UK Ltd

Weronika is a Finance and Operations Manager at OMD UK, having worked with clients such as Barclays, HM Government and Open University amongst others. She is pansexual and lives with her partner and their cat in Brighton. She sits on the Omnicom Media Group Diversity & Inclusion LGBTQ Board and is a proud member of OmniWomen. Weronika helped Omnicom achieve Gold standard Stonewall accreditation for 2021 and a place on Stonewall's Top 100 Most Inclusive Workplaces and working on the same accreditation for 2023.

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	Organisation	myGwork
	Date & Time	Jun 21, 2023 17:00 GMT
	Location	Zoom