After Dinner Speakers
Founder & CEO, The Inclusive Foundations Programme | 2025 Top 10 Inclusion Expert | Cultural Transformation & Inclusion Consultant
Drawing on 17 years as Global DEI Director at Barclays, Hannah shows leaders how to move from good intentions to active allyship. She sets out what inclusive leadership looks like in everyday decisions, how to use influence and sponsorship on behalf of others, and how managers build teams where everyone contributes. Audiences leave with practical behaviours they can apply immediately.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Strategy
Hannah's most requested topic. She walks organisations through building a DEI strategy embedded in systems rather than bolted on, drawing on two decades embedding inclusion across one of the world's largest banks. She covers setting credible goals, linking DEI to business performance, and avoiding the traps that stall progress, leaving leaders with a clear framework for lasting change.
Culture: How Inclusion Drives Organisational Culture
Hannah explains why inclusion is the engine of healthy organisational culture, not a side initiative. She shows how everyday norms, leadership behaviour, and systems shape whether people feel they belong, and how that translates into engagement, retention, and performance. The talk gives leaders concrete levers to shift culture from the inside out.
Gender Equality
A LinkedIn Top Voice in Gender Equality, Hannah addresses the structural barriers that still hold women back at work and what organisations can do about them. She covers progression, pay, sponsorship, and the cultural patterns that quietly limit opportunity, offering evidence-based actions leaders can take to build a genuinely gender-balanced business.
Social Mobility & Socioeconomic Inclusion
Hannah brings socioeconomic background into the inclusion conversation, an often-overlooked dimension of diversity. She explores how class and access shape opportunity, why social mobility matters to talent and performance, and how organisations can widen routes in and remove the invisible barriers facing people from less advantaged backgrounds.
Racial Equity
Hannah addresses racial equity with the candour and credibility of someone who has led this work at scale. She moves beyond awareness to action, covering how to identify where systems disadvantage people of colour, how to set measurable commitments, and how to sustain progress when attention fades. Leaders leave with a practical path forward.
Employee Engagement & Workplace Culture
Hannah connects inclusion directly to engagement, showing why people do their best work when they feel seen and valued. She shares what drives belonging, how culture is built and broken in everyday moments, and how leaders create environments where people stay, grow, and perform.
Leading a Multigenerational Workforce
With several generations now working side by side, Hannah helps leaders turn generational difference into strength. She explores what different generations expect from work, where friction arises, and how inclusive leadership bridges the gaps to build cohesive, high-performing teams.
Leadership of the Future
Hannah sets out what the next era of leadership demands: inclusion, adaptability, and the ability to lead across difference. Drawing on her corporate and entrepreneurial experience, she helps current and emerging leaders build the mindset and behaviours that future-ready organisations will need.
Cultural Governance & Inclusive Practices
Hannah examines how organisations embed inclusion into governance, so values are backed by structure and accountability. She covers designing policies, metrics, and decision-making processes that make inclusive practice the default rather than the exception, helping boards and leadership teams govern culture with intent.
