Morgan Jones | Oliver Wyman
Morgan is a Public Sector & Policy strategy consultant in Oliver Wyman’s London office.
His interest in consulting stemmed from wanting to understand how the world works at a macro level. What defines the world we live in, and where are we going? How does the government fit into development? Oliver Wyman has become the perfect platform for him to dig into these questions.
As part of the Public Sector and Policy team, Morgan supports the development of policy and future strategy from within government departments and arms-length bodies, striving for long-lasting positive impact on the frameworks through which development occurs. This includes working on the future of regulation and financial crime in a fast-changing world, and improving access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Morgan is also the global lead for Men4Change: Oliver Wyman’s male allyship network focused on helping men be advocates for inclusion and gender equality, and providing them with the tools to progress along their allyship journey. Men4Change promotes the sense of ownership on issues that for too long have been seen as “women’s issues” across workplaces and society, to create an inclusive space where everyone can thrive.
Outside of work, Morgan is a keen cyclist, always looking to escape urban London on two wheels, whether before work to one of our parks, or, on the weekends, to the mountains, where he’s most at home. As he puts it, nothing can beat the sense of freedom and awe one gets from nature. His other passion is exploring London's incredible jazz scene and soaking up the live events’ energy.
r10 Consulting
r10 is a management consultancy, focused on helping the global insurance market embrace change through business and technology transformation.
Since 2012, we envision a better future for the insurance industry and strive to help our clients welcome future challenges and maximise long-term potential.
Our clients include leadership, technology, and change teams of leading (re)insurers, syndicates, brokers, MGAs, insurtechs, and service and software providers.
When our clients need a trusted partner to guide them on their transformation journeys, they turn to r10. Using a diverse network of industry experts and partners, we share insights and deliver outcomes in a bespoke approach for each client's unique scenario.
We provide consulting services that focus on growth, operations, and technology – including business strategy, technology investments, change management, and capabilities enhancement.
IHS Markit
At the heart of IHS Markit (now part of S&P Global), we are an information company. Our vision is to be our customers’ leading source for critical information, analytics and insight.
Our purpose is to help our customers grow, enabling better decision making and operational efficiency. We focus on five key strategic pillars of customers, people, product, technology & data science and efficiency.
We're a very unique company - we're made up of over 100 acquisitions, we serve the world's largest industries, and we operate in over 35 countries.
At IHS Markit, we look for people who are exceptional – both in what they do and who they are. As a global organization, we feel it is important to create an environment that is as dynamic as the work we do. Our open, entrepreneurial environment means you are part of a team with a common vision; one where individual ideas are heard and appreciated. And the scope of our work means you’ll get to work on stimulating, high-impact projects in a myriad of industries.
Fidelity International
Fidelity International offers investment solutions and services and retirement expertise to more than 2.5 million customers globally.
As a privately held, purpose-driven company with a 50-year heritage, we think generationally and invest for the long term. Operating in more than 25 countries and with $780.7 billion in total assets, our clients range from central banks, sovereign wealth funds, large corporates, financial institutions, insurers and wealth managers, to private individuals
Kanika Selvan | University of Sheffield
Kanika Selvan is Associate Director of Data and Technology at the University of Sheffield.
At the age of 33, the youngest member of her leadership team and a committed advocate for diversity through technology, her Transformation Director states that she is ‘the most talented Data and Technology leaders I have ever had the privilege of working with’.
Kanika is a strong believer that social change is best achieved through reshaping how technology is delivered and led in organisations. Inclusive Leadership practices are embedded in all that she does, whilst mindfully building a pipeline of talent, set up to challenge the norm. She often talks of herself as a 'professional disrupter', leaning into uncomfortable conversations and challenges to ensure the right outcome for her people, her technology, the HE institution she works for, feeding into the wider communities it serves.
Her role as AD of Data and Technology, means that she leads technical teams to deliver strategic change that will shape the experience for Students and Employees. Her career path speaks a story of courage and resilience, as a BAME, neurodiverse woman who has transitioned through; starting her own social enterprise, a graduate programme in Energy Retail, to Telecoms and finally into Higher Education. She has grown through 4 incremental promotions in the last 3 years, now managing teams of over 80, sizeable budgets and delivering releases of technical changes that cover both software and infrastructure in complex technical ecosystems. Kanika is a strong believer that her personal progression is directly correlated with her passion to grow talent and empower teams to think differently. Through restructures, she has built in roles to drive a pipeline for diverse talent, championed the adaptation of procurement processes to speak directly to the Diversity & inclusion agenda in recruitment, grown, recruited and trained female tech leaders internally and supporting them to grow into other organisations for further development. She is now celebrated as a public speaker, showcasing the practices diversity of experience and thought can bring to technical change.
As working from to her values is her core driver, her work to promote inclusivity and equity is also shown in the portfolio of other activities she does. She mentors for the Ada woman's network, Black Valley technical Career Accelerator Programme and Diversity in Housing, offering up personal time to connect and coach other women to succeed.
She supports the supports the Tech Training Organisation, Diverse and Equal, with strategic & commercial development, enabling them to deliver new initiatives to grow diverse tech talent. Speaking at their events, driving new commercial partnerships and shaping the vision for driving a shining new future for communities that have been historically marginalised to step into their power.
She is also a Non Executive director for Incommunities Housing Association, sitting as Group Board Member and Chair of Customer board, she takes on an additional role as Diversity & Inclusion Lead. This Social Housing provider of 25,000 homes, with a £100m turnover, she supports the board as both a strategic leader and embedding Inclusive leadership practices at a senior level. She regularly speaks out to support employee engagement with D&I and draws the link between the ability for the organisation to be successful & the need to understand their diverse Northern Bradford community base
Kanika has founded and led employee diversity networks. Her most notable, the founding of Npowers women's network (Moxie) The ambition to create an employee network that would increase representation of female staff, create a space for a discourse around gender related work inequality & support other diversity networks to encourage an intersectional approach. She chaired the set up and delivery of the employee network as it recruited representation across 8 sites, grew its membership to 300+, delivered diversity events, reported to the executive board, started a new engagement with HR professionals who quickly collaborated with us and quick following of LGBTQI+, Neurodiversity & BAME employee networks.
Karen Holden | A City Law Firm
I started ACLF 14 years ago as I wanted to create a law firm that wasn’t just about money.
Or status, but the clients and staff rapport & passion. It was difficult during a recession; starting a family & learning everything that comes with running a business . After a bumpy start , only a suitcase of files and 5k, the firm has grown, it has a reputable place in the market and is a listed legal 500 firm despite its size. We are a niche, dynamic, innovative firm punching above our weight. Our clients are exciting and loyal from autonomous cars and block chain to LGBTQ members to royal family members.
I have a great team who have been amazing but I essentially did take all the risks and did this myself from scratch. I was given freedom of the city in 2018 for my equality work which I am passionate and driven to continue. I have launched in 2022 a female Foumders growth program to support other female founders scale, maintain the growth plan, take in investment and have ongoing support.
Sam Cooper-Gray | HSBC
Sam Cooper-Gray is the Global Head of Market Strategy and Engagement for HSBC Business based in London. Sam was appointed to this role in 2019.
In this role, she is responsible for leading the strategy and staff and customer engagement for HSBC Business, supporting over 1.3 million customers in over 50 markets and territories to access the best products and services for their needs.
In addition to her responsibilities at HSBC Global Business Banking, Sam is the Global Sponsor for HSBC Change Makers, an employee led initiative to drive inclusion across the organisation and previous Global Co-Chair for HSBC BALANCE. HSBC BALANCE has over 50,000 members, 220 Executive Leader Ambassadors and 1,000 Advocates across 48 markets and is an employee resource group focussed on ending gender imbalance within the bank and across the industry. She is also a Board member for Women on the Wharf and The Financial Alliance for Women and a trustee for the Kent Community Foundation. She leads the Women of the Wharf Beyond Mentoring programme connecting over 750 mentors and mentees across 20 major firms base in London and a lead mentor for Business in the Community’s Race Campaign Mentoring programme. In addition to this Sam has experience as a non-exec director for a number of firms, advising on diversity and inclusion.
Sam was Named as one of the Top 50 Trailblazers in Gender Equality List in 2021 and winner of ‘We Are the City’s’ Top 100 Rising Stars Editor’s Choice award in 2020. She was also listed as one of the city’s Inspirational women by Brummell Magazine in 2019 and is a judge for the Inclusive Companies Awards.
Prior to taking on her current role, Sam was the Global Head of Learning for HSBC Commercial Banking, supporting the development of over 24,000 employees across 53 markets and has held senior positions within HSBC for over 21 years, including roles in Risk, Trade, Leadership and the Chief Operating Office.
Kirsty Moore | HSBC
Kirsty Moore is Managing Director, Regional Head London, HSBC Global Private Banking and has over 25 years of experience advising families on their wealth with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and wealth being realised from private companies.
Her team help support entrepreneurs manage their wealth today and for future generations by providing personalised financial planning and investment advice.
Kirsty is someone who likes to get things done, a mum and an equality champion. She is the Chair of the Private Banks UK Engagement Forum which encourages and empowers staff to make a difference by changing people's lives for the better through volunteering charity work and well being. She also sponsors and leads HSBC Private Banking UK’s mentoring programme, which focuses on gender and ethnicity and last year was extended to offer reverse mentoring as well as traditional mentoring. Over 500 participants have taken part in the programme since its inception, providing a crucial career development resource within the business and supporting diversity of talent.
Marie Hemingway | Speak Out Revolution
Marie is the founder and CTO of the award winning Not-For-Profit Speak Out Revolution, bringing strategic insights through innovative technology to individuals and organisations so that they might optimally drive efforts to eradicate workplace inequality.
As a Physicist, Marie has spent her career working in industries where women are systematically excluded and has tirelessly supported efforts within her professional and voluntary pursuits to remove barriers for women.
Alongside her voluntary work with Speak Out Revolution, Marie supports the UK Defence Enterprise to improve their strategic investment decision making as a Principal Consultant within Atkins. Marie also sits on the board for the Women's Infrastructure Network, an organisation supporting women working across infrastructure industry sectors to network, exchange ideas, and experience and help shape the infrastructure agenda.
Katie Watkin | HSBC
For the last decade I have worked with first direct and HSBC.
I initially joined the bank due to the incredible nursery facilities provided at first direct, never in a million years did I expect that I would be able to have the incredible career I have had, meeting and collaborating with colleagues across the world.
I started in customer facing roles at first direct then moving to support colleagues in Campaign Management, a team that was responsible to driving employee engagement through the communication of new business initiatives and by implementing changes to embed / test employee knowledge in both first direct and HSBC. I then became a Planning & Support Manager, assisting in driving Contact Centre performance and strategic change updates before moving into my current role of Senior Risk and Control Manager. It is in this role I have the opportunity to support the Contact Centre operation with risk management, identify, design and deliver automation opportunities in Controls and Operational activities, lead and oversee gap analysis based on regulatory findings as well as numerous other activities.
Personally, my family are my number one priority. Closely followed by my beloved Leeds United :) I am incredibly passionate about equality, safeguarding, diversity & inclusion and neurodiversity.