WorkPride 2024: Disability Inclusion: Removing Barriers, Embracing Abilities

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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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  Jim Donnell

  Business Analyst (M&A IT)
  AstraZeneca

  Lead Business Analyst at AstraZeneca in the M&A IT team, previously I spent over 20 years in the Financial Markets locally and at a Global level in operations and project work. I'm a proud straight super ally and work closely with our employee resource group AZPride. Away from work most of my energy is focused to my family but I still have time for my passion for rugby, photography, and Live Action Roleplay (LARP).

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  Andrea Larkin

  Senior Manager, Accessibility
  Warner Bros. Discovery

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  Celine Ponio Bagtas 🇵🇭

  Producer
  PinkNews

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  Sarah Stephenson-Hunter

  Director, speaker, coach and trainer
  Simply Equality Ltd

  A highly experienced and respected EDI speaker, coach and trainer specialising in the intersection of disability and LgBTQ+ equality. I have delivered keynote talks, workshops and been a panel member at a range of events for various public and private sector organisations including Stephenson-Harwood, Oxford University, The Law Society, RPC, Boots Wallgreen Alliance and Zurich Insurance to name but a few. I pride myself on using my rich lived experience and professional expertise of being disabled and LGBTQ+ to move the discussion from awareness to action for maximum impact. I'm passionate about foregrounding the humanity behind the headlines and being able to cover often quite complex and sensitive subjects in a pragmatic manner with clarity and compassion.

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  Charlotte Williams

  Diversity and Inclusion Manager
  Impact Culture

  Charlotte is and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion professional and public speaker based in Brighton. With 8 years experience in the field of EDI and over 10 in Education, Charlotte has built her career on creating systemic and recipient-driven change. Guided by her background in Psychology and Sociology, her learning and development sessions are client-centred, accessible and engaging. Her consultancy is empathic and dynamic, aiming to encourage people to make change because they WANT to, not because they are told to. In addition to being a Keynote speaker for a wide range of organisations, she has also been featured on the Guilty Feminist podcast, talking about the importance of telling stories and on BBC Learning English, having written, produced and presented the highest-rated video on the platform; 'Avoiding Sexist Language'. Charlotte's work focuses on elevating the voices of others, working with a range of topics such as LGBTQ+ inclusion, Neurodiversity, Disability inclusion, tackling Antisemitism, Anti-racism and deconstructing the racialisation of minorities. She works through an intersectional lens, strongly believing that marginalisation, unequal power distribution and oppression are not only nuanced, but fully interconnected and need to be discussed and tackled holistically.

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