Charlotte Sweeney OBE | Founder & CEO, Charlotte Sweeney Associates (CSA)
Charlotte Sweeney, OBE has specialised in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) for over 25 years. Inspired by her global corporate career in the Financial Services sector, she launched Charlotte Sweeney Associates in 2012.
Charlotte Sweeney, OBE has specialised in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) for over 25 years. Inspired by her global corporate career in the Financial Services sector, she launched Charlotte Sweeney Associates in 2012. As a Chartered Management Consultant, she is a trail blazer in her field and thrives on empowering business leaders and organisations to create inclusive workplaces. She works, and influences at the C-Suite level in the private sector as well as advised Senior Leaders and Ministers within Governments. In 2014, she authored an independent review for the UK Government Secretary of State Sir Vince Cable on Women on Boards and Executive Search Firms, which shaped the ongoing expectations and requirements of Search Firms.
She also created the ‘first of its kind’ City of London’s Diversity Programme, The Power of Diversity on behalf of the then Lord Mayor of London Dame Fiona Woolf and was previously the Vice-Chair of the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Panel.
She has held several Non-Executive Director roles, including 4 years as a Deputy Chair of an NHS Acute Trust with responsibility of over £500m annual spend.
She has won multiple sector awards and received recognition for her work from academic institutes such as Harvard and Cambridge University, as well as being one of the first to gain Chartered Management Consultant status by the MCA. She is also a Fellow of the CIPD, RSA, CMI and College of St George’s Society of Leadership Fellows based at Windsor Castle.
She is named as one of HR’s Most Influential Thinkers as well as being a member of the Forbes HR Council. In the 2017 New Year’s Honours, she was awarded an OBE for services to Women and Equalities.
Charlotte has authored numerous industry reports and is co-author of the best-selling book Inclusive Leadership – the definitive guide to developing and executing an impactful Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, locally and globally’, published by Pearson/The Financial Times, which was shortlisted for the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Management Book of the Year in 2018.
She writes regularly for professional publications such as Forbes HR Council. As well as delivering keynote speeches and chairing conferences internationally, she is regularly invited as an expert contributor for BBC Radio, TV and the national press.