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Series Fifteen, Episode Six: Regional representation, recruitment and retention: acknowledging and navigating early career inclusion

In this episode, host Julia Streets is joined by Rebecca Ajulu-Bushell, CEO of 1 0,000 Black Interns Foundation and the 10,000 Able Interns Foundation and Philiip Olagunju, Head of corporate finance at PEM.

Series Fifteen, Episode Five: Inclusive design: Workspaces fit for all, fit for the future

Our host Julia Streets is joined by Ed Warner, founder of the inclusive design business Motionspot and Ross Hovey, Accessibility Guru, Accessibility Consultant and Lloyds Banking Group Disability Role Model.

Series Fifteen, Episode Four: Is Justice the new DE&I: Has the diversity discussion evolved?

In this episode, host Julia Streets is joined by Dorien Nuñez, Speaker, Author, Researcher, Consultant and Principal and Co-Founder of The OMNIResearch Group and Paris Prince, Director – Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion for The Intentional Endowments Network.

Series Fifteen, Episode Three: Patriarchy, privilege and perspective: Male identity and the future of work

In this episode, host Julia Streets is joined by David Goldenkranz, Educator, DEI Facilitator, Coach and Consultant and Simeon Greaves, Wealth Manager at Coutts.

Series Fifteen, Episode Two Accessibility, Customer Focus and Inclusivity: Refreshing disability strategies

host Julia Streets is joined by Toby Mildon, Diversity & Inclusion Architect and founder of Mildon, a consultancy and advisory business, and Johnny Timpson OBE, principal of Johnny Timpson Consulting and Non-Executive Chair of specialist military insurance brokerage Absolute Military.

Series Fifteen, Episode One: Special Youth Takeover Episode: Perception, Pathways and Progress within financial services

host Julia Streets is joined by Chloe, Sirad, Megan and Harrison all of whom work as Young Consultants with the organisation Participation People.

Series Fourteen, Episode Seven: From Financial Inclusion to Financial Capability

host Julia Streets is joined by Dr Rajiv Prabhakar, Senior Lecturer in Personal Finance at the Open University and Sian Williams, previously Director of Policy and Innovation at Toynbee Hall, now the new CEO of Switchback.

Series Fourteen, Episode Five – From inequality to inclusion: a fresh focus on readdressing and reviving the skills gap

In this episode, host Julia Streets is joined by Bukola Adisa, Founder/CEO of Career Masterclass and Joseph Williams, Founder and CEO of Clu.

Series Fourteen, Episode Four – Focus on the menopause and reframing the narrative

In this episode in honour of World Menopause Month, host Julia Streets is joined by Sam Simister, co-founder of GenM and Rachel Lankester, founder of Magnificent Midlife.

Series Fourteen, Episode Two – Focus on neurodiversity: The skillset of superheroes

Julia Streets is joined by Lou Anderson, Senior Sales Development Representative at Connectr to discuss neurodiversity.

Series fourteen, episode one: Allies and Inclusion: Changing the Culture in Tech

To kick off Series 14, we are joined by two titans of tech, Russ Shaw, Founding Partner of London Tech Week and London Tech Ambassador for the Mayor of London and an advisory member for Founders4Schools, and Dr Sue Black, technology evangelist, digital skills expert and Professor of Computer at Durham University

Series Thirteen, Episode Six: Juggling the balance of work and rest- the power of switching off, the role of faith and importance of wellbeing

In this episode we are joined by Eli Albrecht, Associate Attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and George Bettany, Co-founder of Sanctus.

Series Thirteen, Episode Five: Focus on Israel – Inclusion, Investment and Innovation

In this episode we are joined Jeremy Seeff, partner at Epstein Rosenblum Maoz (ERM) and Nava Swersky Sofer

Series Thirteen, Episode Four – Ethnic Minority Enterprise and Investment

In this episode we are joined by Eric Collins, CEO and Founding Member of Impact X Capital Partners and Host of Channel 4’s The Money Maker and Ali Kazmi, Founder of Ethical Equity.

Series Thirteen, Episode Three – Focus on Fintech: Fintech West

In this episode we are joined Sam Seaton, CEO of Moneyhub and Stuart Harrison, Director of Fintech West.

Series Thirteen, Episode Two: Focus on China – Culture, Concepts and Commonality

In this episode we are joined by Lin Yue, Senior Executive at Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Rana Mitter OBE, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, and a Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford.

Series Thirteen, Episode One : Special Episode: Veterans – Leadership, Mindset and Tenacity

We are joined by George Griffin, Customer Success Manager at Salesforce and Vice President of Vetforce, Michelle Osborne, Executive Director, Head of Emerging Talent and Military Veterans Affairs, JP Morgan Chase and David Wiseman, Grants & Programmes Director at the Invictus Games Foundation, Head of Programmes at the Royal Foundation and Co-Founder of Peak State: Mental Fitness.

Series Twelve, Episode Five: Conscious Leadership and Corporate Purpose

Prabhmeet Singh, an award winning Senior finance professional, currently leading the Multicultural and Inclusion Network at Willis Towers Watson, and Sunaina Sinha Haldea, Global Head of Private Capital Advisory at Raymond James Cebile.

Series Twelve, Episode Four: Returners, the great resignation, recruitment and retention

Norma Gillespie, CEO of Resource Solutions and Manisha Patel, Inclusion and Culture Advisor.

Series Twelve, Episode Three: Financial and female inclusion in Latin America

Angela Hurtado is J.P. Morgan’s Managing Director, Senior Country Officer for Colombia and Juan Carlos Mora Uribe Chief Executive Officer of Bancolombia.

Series Twelve, Episode Two: Ethical Finance, Faith and Enlightened Leadership

Professor Atul K. Shah, an accomplished thought leader, writer, lecturer and broadcaster and Anjli Shah, Investment Director at Aberdeen Standard Investments.

Series Twelve, Episode One Building Better Boards: Finding your place in the boardroom

Margaret Franklin, President and CEO of Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFA) and Fiona Hathorn, board advisor and Founder and CEO of Women on Boards UK.

Special Episode – Disability: Champions, Challenges, and Change

Sophie Christiansen is an eight time (at the time of the recording!) Paralympic champion, who is also a software developer at Goldman Sachs. Christiane Link is the Founder and Director of Ortegalink, an inclusion and accessibility consultancy.

Series Eleven, Episode Six: Democratising finance through female education and empowerment

With an estimated 1.7 billion people in the world without access to financial products or banking, this episode looks at social inclusion through the democratisation of finance.

Series Eleven, Episode Five – Insights, Intelligence and Innovation: The data and science of diversity

This episode discusses diversity and inclusion through data, leadership, insights and bias-free scientific intelligence.

Series Eleven, Episode Four: Pathways to Progression through Socio-Economic Inclusion

Yasmine Chinwala, a partner at capital markets think tank New Financial and Chris Woolard, Financial Services Partner at EY and Chair of its Global Financial Services Regulation Network

Series Eleven, Episode Three: Trans inclusion and Belonging: From the Bathroom to the Boardroom

Celia Daniels, Chief Programmes Officer for Trans Can Work and Meaghan Crockett, Life Event Services consultant at Bank of America.

Series Eleven, Episode Two: The Perspectives of Discrimination and Representation

This in-depth discussion focuses on the rise of the #StopAsianHate campaign and the United States Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, when President Biden signed the bipartisan Covid-19 hate crime legislation.

Series Eleven, Episode One: The importance of benchmarking, indexes and global business conduct standards

This discussion focuses on the India Work Equality Index, India’s first comprehensive benchmarking tool for employers to measure their progress on LGBT inclusion in the workplace.

Series Ten, Episode Six: Representation and Recognition of the ‘Model Minority’

Millie Gillon, Global Head of Client Experience, MD Retail Banking, Standard Chartered and Sun-Hee Park, International Capital Markets lawyer and founder of the East Asian Lawyers Organisation.

Series Ten, Episode Five: The Competitive Advantage of Social Mobility

In this wide ranging discussion we discuss the importance of prioritising the recruitment, selection and promotion of alternative talent – particularly in tech – as key to navigating challenging times and rebuilding the economy.

Series Ten, Episode Four: The Changing Shape of Female and Inclusive Entrepreneurship

This discussion sets out priorities when building back businesses in 2021, considers key steps to gender parity and explores the impact of Covid-19 on the female workforce.

Series Ten, Episode Three: The Corporatisation of PRIDE

Dr Daniel Conway, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Westminster, and Jack Guest, Diversity & Inclusion Lead, Global Wealth & Personal Banking at HSBC.

Series Ten, Episode Two: Changing the Race Ratio

With Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea, President of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Dr Kamal Munir of Cambridge Judge Business School

Series Nine, Episode Seven – Build Back Better: The requirement for resilience

With Mitesh Sheth, Chief Executive Officer of Redington and Jayne Styles, co-lead of the Diversity Project’s Ambassador Programme

Series Nine, Episode Six: LGBTQ+ Identity, Intersectionality and Inclusion

With Arlene McDermott, co-chair of the London Stock Exchange Group Proud network and Ethan Salathiel, coach, consultant, programme leader and entrepreneur

Series Nine, Episode Five: Faith in the City – how wearing faith with pride and corporate religious networks can cultivate faith-friendly and inclusive organisations

With Zaki Cooper, Co-Founder of Faiths United, Wes Ilingsworth, Lead of the City Team at St. Helen’s Bishopsgate and Syra Sanghera, Analyst at Man Group and ambassador for City Sikhs and founding member of the Faiths United Youth Network.

Series Nine, Episode Two – Islamic Finance: The Principles, Potential and Imperative for Encouraging Islamic Talent

by Jon Guy, Secretary General of the Islamic Insurance Association of London and Dr Mohammed Abdel-Haq, Professor in Banking and a Director of the Centre for Islamic Finance at the University of Bolton.

Series Nine, Episode One – Matters of Disability and Mental Health Wellbeing

Rosemary Frazer, Disability Equality and Inclusion Consultant and Louise Newby, Director of Three Eggs Mental Health Training.

Series Eight, Episode Six – Future Leaders and Change Makers: A focus on the future generation

Bem Le Hunte, Associate Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney and international author and expert in the field of Creative Intelligence, Susan Warner, Head of Community Engagement at Mastercard and Founder of Girls4Tech and Edwina Dunn, Chairman of Starcount and Founder of the Female Lead.

Series Eight, Episode Five: The regulator’s view: The FCA’s expectations and commitment to diversity & inclusion

Georgina Philippou, Chief Operating Officer, and member of the Executive Committee at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Series Eight: Let’s Talk About Racism – #BlackLivesMatter

Dr. Funke Abimbola MBE, Chief Executive Officer at the Austen Bronte Consultancy; Paul Monekosso Cleal OBE, Executive Director at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Kingston University and National Citizen Service Trust and an adviser to Sainsbury’s and FA Premier League; Donna Herdsman, award winning Professional Services Executive, Mentor and Career Coach and Reggie Nelson, Graduate Analyst at Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM).

Series Eight, Episode Four: People, Policy and Progress: The importance of gender equality and ethnic minority representation

Ann Cairns, Global Co-Chair of the 30% Club and Executive Vice Chairman of Mastercard and Janet Thomas, former President of Women in Banking and Finance and Managing Director of Infinity Capital Partners.

Series Eight, Episode Three – The Value of Introverts and Importance of Apprentices

Carol Stewart, Coach for high achieving introverted women and Rosie Reynolds, Chief Commercial Officer at Aspect Capital.

Series Eight, Episode Two: Disability – Challenging the Soft Bigotry of Lower Expectation

Yasmin Sheikh, Founder of Diverse Matters and James Melville-Ross, Senior Managing Director in the Strategic Communications segment of FTI Consulting

Series Eight, Episode One: Building Resilience Within Work Through Behavioural Science

Professor Grace Lordan, Associate Professor in Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Richard Nesbitt, Adjunct Professor of the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.

Podcast Mini Series: Episode Three – How to Present and Sell Over Digital Channels

Edie Lush, ex Bloomberg TV reporter, journalist, podcast host and presentation coach.

Podcast Mini Series: Episode One – Leadership In Times Of Crisis

Dr Catriona Wallace, named by the Australian Financial Review as Australia’s most influential woman in business and entrepreneurship.

Series Seven, Episode Four: Balance Beyond the Spectrum: Neurodiversity and mental health in the workplace

Dr Nancy Doyle, Chartered Psychologist and founder and CEO of Genius Within CIC and Andy Gibson, award-winning entrepreneur, author and Head Gardener of Mindapples.

Series Seven, Episode Three: Transformation vs Innovation – The future and the female global workforce

Claire Calmejane, Group Chief Innovation Officer for Societe Generale, and Gemma Young, Founder of the DiversiTech Hub and Women of FinTech.

Series Seven, Episode Two: Coming Out and Staying Visible

BBC presenter Jane Hill and partnership and sponsorship consultant Polly Shute discuss the lack of visibility of gay women in society.

Series Seven, Episode One – Let’s Talk About Race – #TalkAboutBlack

Gavin Lewis, Managing Director at BlackRock and co-creator of The Diversity Project’s #TalkAboutBlack initiative. Gavin’s insights are further supported by advice from Raphael Mokades, Founder and Managing Director of Rare Recruitment.

Series Six, Episode Seven: Tales from a female AI entrepreneur, capital raising, data bias, the ‘heroine’s journey’ and practical ways men can support

Dr Catriona Wallace, a leading authority in artificial intelligence and Founder & Executive Director of fintech firm Flamingo.AI, the second only woman-led businesses ever to list on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Series Six, Episode Six: Rising to the diversity recruitment challenge

Jackie Kallman, Head of Payments Industry and Engagement at ANZ, Deanne Keetelaar, General Manager of Payments & Financial Services, Product & innovation for Australia Post, and Felicity Blake, responsible for ACI’s New Zealand client portfolio.

Series Six, Episode Five – Digital Resilience, Regulation and Risk – Financial education and the regulation of financial services

Lee Willows, Founder and CEO of Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust (YGAM), and Gavin Stewart, Associate Director at Grant Thornton UK LLP

Series Six, Episode Three: Looking back at legislative change and facing forward into the digital universe

Recorded at the House of Lords, Lord Hayward of Cumnor and Trevor Phillips OBE

Series Six, Episode Two: The voices of new and rising talent – Recorded live at Sibos 2019

Recorded live on ‘Talent Thursday’ at the 2019 global Sibos conference in London, we were joined by Oxford University PhD Student Kristina Kämpfer, outlining the findings of her diversity research paper, sponsored by the SWIFT Institute. Erin Thornton, Coordinator of the SWIFT Diversity and Inclusion Network and the Sibos STAR Scholarship Programme, explains the importance of sponsoring rising female talent and Julia talks to Carmen Arias González, Laurissa Wiitala and Ibiyemi Okuneye of the cohort.

Series Six, Episode One: Creating space for complete inclusion

Pips Bunce, Head of Global Markets, Technology, Core Engineering Strategic Programmes at Credit Suisse and Ed Thompson, founder and CEO of Uptimize explore neurodiversity and LGBTQI inclusion.

Series Five, Episode Six: Recruitment through the lens of Social mobility and Returners

Dominie Moss, Founder of the Return Hub, and Reggie Nelson from Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM)

Series Five, Episode Four: Inclusion and Opportunities in Investment Management

Karis Stander, Managing Director of Investment20/20 and Natalie Kenway, Acting Editor of Investment Week

Series Five, Episode Three: Is data driving inclusivity and impacting ethnic minority representation?

Noreen Niazi, Co-founder of Muslim Women Connect and Jon Terry, Partner at PWC

Series Five, Episode Two: How Inclusion, Education and Technology are Impacting Our Economy & Society

Jacqueline de Rojas, President of techUK and chair of the Digital Leaders board, and Edie Lush, Executive Editor of Hub Culture and Host of Global GoalsCast

Series Five, Episode One: Does the FinTech industry have the talent it needs today … and tomorrow?

Our guests on this podcast are:
Ben Brabyn CEO of Level39// Tom Bull, Head of Fintech at EY //
Charlotte Crosswell, CEO of Innovate Finance //
Husayn Kassai, CEO of Onfido //
Karen Rudich, CEO and Founder of FireDrake //
Tim Levene, CEO of Augmentum // Alison Rose, Deputy CEO of NatWest Holdings and CEO, Commercial & Private Banking, Royal Bank of Scotland //
Adam Toms, CEO Europe, OpenFin

Series Four, Episode Eight: Looking beyond our walls – what we can learn from the legal sector and finding talent in other specialisms

Funke Abimbola MBE, prominent legal diversity champion and campaigner and recently appointed Director of Operations, Conflict Resolution at Mishcon de Reya LLP, and Alison Choy, chemistry and biochemistry academic and Head of Machine Learning at Starling Bank

Series Four, Episode Seven: Organisational Culture and Inclusive Networks

Alicia Millar, Director of Learning and Development (EMEA) at Reed Smith, NED of MyGWork and co-chair of the LGBT chapter of The Network of Networks (TNON), and Dan Ricard, Transformation Lead in PwC’s UK Sales & Marketing function and founder and co-chair of The Network of Networks (TNON)

Series Four, Episode Six: The Commercial Impact of Diversity

Live at the Women in Payments UK 2019 Symposium in London on 28th March 2019. Our host Julia Streets was joined by Rashmi Prabhakar, Chief of Staff for Global Services at Finastra, Jacqueline Keogh, Global Head Payments GTM at Western Union Business Solutions, and Smriti Vicari, Head of FinTech at Visa

Series Four, Episode Five: Driving Greater Inclusivity and Collaboration in Asset Management & Financial Services

Jane Welsh, Senior Investment Consultant and Project Manager for the Diversity Project, and Marissa Ellis, Strategy Consultant, Advisor and the Founder of Diversily

Series Four, Episode Four: Presidents Club exposé one year on & creating the next generation of tech talent

Madison Marriage, the Financial Times journalist who went under cover at the President’s Club & Wincie Wong, Head of Innovation for Supply Chain Services at RBS

Series Four, Episode Three: Harnessing exceptional LGBT+ and ethnic minority talent

Matt Cameron, Founder of The Ocean Partnership and LGBT Great, the global investment management industry network, and Hephzi Pemberton, Angel Investor and Founder & CEO of the Equality Group

Series Four, Episode Two: Harnessing the Power of Intersectionality (Recorded Live)

Recorded live at the Women in Payments USA 2019 Symposium in Washington on 5th February 2019. Our host Julia Streets was joined by Jan Estep, President and CEO of NACHA, Linda Quaranto, Consulting Managing Director of Deloitte, and Randall Tucker, Chief Inclusion Officer of Mastercard

Series Three, Episode Eleven: Intersectionality and building a pipeline of diverse talent

Mariam Jimoh, Founder & Director of Women in the City Afro-Caribbean Network (WCAN), and Alex Odwell, Managing Director of Referment