Beyond the Rainbow: How managers can support LGBTQi+ staff

Sasha Scott

CEO & Founder - Inclusive Group

Sasha Scott is the Founder and CEO of Inclusive Group and is an expert in diversity, bias, inclusivity and managing psychological health. She understands the commercial drivers behind reducing bias within the workplace and the critical need to promote and sustain inclusive workplace cultures, in order to attract and retain talent.

Sasha’s reputation has grown as an "international thought leader in diversity issues" and she has appeared on the BBC, and has been published in The Times, The Guardian, City AM, The Lawyer, Law Gazette, Accountancy Age, Complient , Personnel Today, and Recruiter magazine.

Daisy Reeves

Global Inclusion & Diversity Client Relationship - Partner Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Daisy is a known game-changer in the field of Inclusion & Diversity, both within the legal industry and more widely. In the 2020 OUTstanding LGBTQ* Executives Role Models List, which features C-suite and business leaders worldwide across 24 countries and five continents, Daisy is globally ranked as the No. 1 female lawyer, No. 1 female in professional services and No. 15 overall for her efforts in making the global workplace more welcoming for LGBTQ* populations.

Peter Macdonald Hall

Principal Consultant VERCIDA Consulting

Peter has been delivering diversity, inclusion and leadership development programmes for over 20 years. He brings a wealth of expertise in helping leaders to think creatively and pragmatically about how to leverage diversity and inclusion to positively impact on high team performance.

Peter has supported executive management teams to embed cultural change both in the public and private sectors and he has designed, facilitated and presented bespoke leadership programmes, seeking to challenge assumptions at an executive level to ensure change is meaningful, participative and actioned.

As a trained facilitator and presenter Peter has in-depth knowledge in people engagement. His engaging and strong facilitation style enables Peter to challenge a leaders’ current ways of thinking and working and as a result encourages leaders to adopt more inclusive and collaborative work styles.three bio. 

Tom Lakin

Global Practice Director - Robert Walters United Kingdom

Tom leads the Consultancy practice at Robert Walters Group and has advised clients on minimising bias in recruitment since 2015.  Tom has an MA in Career Development, specialising in the career journeys of under-represented individuals and studied Business Sustainability management at the Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge. Tom is an out gay man and founded the LGBTQ Pride Network at Robert Walters Group.