WorkPride 2023: Starting a Career in Diversity & Inclusion – Everything You Need to Know

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  Saski .

  LGBTQ+ Inclusion Specialist Consultant
  www.saski.co.uk

  Saski is a well established LGBTQIA+ Inclusion training consultant in both schools and the workplace. She is also a Life Coach and Mentor,  Official PRIDE Host, Interviewer for Podcast, Radio and online. Panel Moderator and Singer.  Saski’s mission is to positively spotlight the LGBTQIA+ community through these various strands of her work and create environments where everyone can be their true authentic self.  In addition she is also a Pride ambassador for Pride Life Magazine, Includability.com and a PRIDE365 Champion. Saski has the unique ability to be versatile on a wide range of subjects, whilst engaging both her audiences and panellists, bringing about the best conversations for education and awareness. Humour meets grace and knowledge meets respect...it’s what Saski does best.  A keen advocate for positive promotion and equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community and all, Saski has appeared on several BBC TV and Radio shows and panels, promoting inclusion. She has also worked closely with a variety of charities and organisations, as an LGBTQ+ Inclusion trainer, interviewer, and Host.  Collaborations include Inclusive Companies, MyGwork, HR.com, Diva Magazine, Pride Life Magazine and various UK PRIDE’s, Mermaids and Diversity Role Models Youth charities, Clexacon, The British Youth Council and P3 Parenting Network to name but a few.  
Find out more here www.saski.co.uk  and follow Saski on Facebook & Instagram @Saskisinger & on Twitter @Saskisinger1

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  Char Erskine

  Senior Inclusion Manager
  Taylor Wessing

  Senior Inclusion Manager at Taylor Wessing, with special interest in all things equity, inclusion and social justice. I think of myself as a corporate hippie on a mission to bring social awareness and the corporate world together. I am a Black, queer, non-binary person with Antiguan and Jamaican heritage. I live with late-diagnosed ADHD, anxiety and depression, and am very open about all aspects of my lived experience at the intersection of all these things.

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  Laetitia Tierny

  IDEA Director EMEA
  VF Corporation

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  Angela Qithi

  EMEA Inclusive Talent Advisory & Global C&I Strategic Partne
  Oracle

  I am a Global Strategic Partnerships Leader and Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) Leader at a Fortune 500 company. In addition, a Masters class part time University Lecturer at a top 5 University in Africa. I have over 15 years of experience leading Human Resources, Culture transformation, Talent Management, Employer Branding and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion teams in alignment to organisational strategies. This is evident in the impact I made at the notable, successful and listed organisations I have worked at. I was awarded the best overall achiever for my Master of Commerce: Human Resources and Labour Relations qualification by the South Africa Board of People Practices at the University of Pretoria. I am on the Dean’s prestigious list awarded at the Economic Management Sciences Faculty at UP. I am also qualified in Commercial Business Management and enabling the people side of mergers & acquisitions. I have over the years successfully established and led new functions, business branches, employee resource groups, affinity groups locally and globally. My professional experience and qualifications have moulded me to be the bridge between business and people strategies whilst leveraging technology to enable an inclusive and equitable culture. My love for technology and ability to make it a business enabler whilst leading and developing others is the reason I am also a HR Data Metrics and Analytics Lecturer for Masters Commercial students at one of the top universities in South Africa. Generally, I am good at knowledge sharing. My overall life purpose is to take Black girls to school all over the world. This was inspired by me being a recipient of many bursaries and scholarships growing up. I aim to pay that forward by partnering with corporates as part of their sustainability goals. Personally, I love life. I am a natural networker, socialist and collaborator which makes me able to engage at all business levels, across different continents and industries.

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  Sharon Murray

  Head of Culture and Inclusion
  Currys

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  Stephanie Huckel

  Head of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, North America
  Reckitt

  In her role as head of diversity, equity, and inclusion for North America, Stephanie designs, manages, and implements DEI strategies and programs in the U.S. In this role, she works closely with local HR teams, local employee resource groups (ERGs) and the US and Global Reckitt D&I Boards to ensure alignment and connectivity. Stephanie has more than 15 years of experience in full-time strategic diversity and inclusion roles. She co-founded Offices of Diversity and Inclusion at three organizations – International Game Technology (IGT), Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, and Baystate Health. Stephanie also founded and ran Huckel Inclusive, a diversity and inclusion consulting firm with LGBTQ expertise, which is now run by her fabulous husband, Ethan Huckel. Wherever she works, Stephanie’s colleagues quickly come to know her as a DEI champion. Her passion for diversity, equity, and inclusion is fueled by a long-held belief that we should all live and work in inclusive and welcoming environments that provide every individual with a genuine sense of belonging. The recipient of Providence Business News’ 2020 Diversity Champion Award, 2019 Forty Under 40 Award, and Bay Path University’s Bold Woman Award, Stephanie has a Master of Science in Nonprofit Management and Philanthropy and a Bachelor of Arts in General Psychology. She lives with her family in New Jersey, USA.

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