Top 10 Diversity Consultants - 2016
This category recognises the achievements of individuals who are making an impact in diversity through their work as management consultants.
Sarika Bhattacharyya - Speaker on gender issues & Co Founder Altavis & Biz Divas (India)
Battacharyya founded Altavis, a diversity consulting and hiring firm, and started the not-for-profit Biz Divas Foundation. By creating awareness on inclusive practices, conducting research, and building an advocacy platform, Biz Divas has impacted on more than 2,500 women and published two research papers, ‘Women on Boards’ and ‘Inclusion in India Inc’. Biz Divas also convenes an Inclusive Leadership conference - I INSPIRE, which has been attended by over 1000 corporates, entrepreneurs and NGOs.
Lesley Brook & Jacey Graham - Directors & Founders, Brook Graham (UK)
Graham co-founded the UK FTSE 100 Cross Company Mentoring Programme and is the author of ‘A Woman’s Place is in the Boardroom’ and ‘The Roadmap’, and is a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield. Brook is Trustee Director of the Albert Kennedy Trust. Executive leaders in blue-chip organisations for more than 20 years, their market-leading ‘Engaging Men’ programme enables companies to build vital gender intelligence. They coach leaders to understand and tackle unconscious bias and translate strategic goals into practical actions.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett - Economist and Columbia University professor (US)
An economist with 20 years’ experience in global talent management, Hewlett has focused on the "power of difference" and the challenges faced by women, minorities, LGBT, and other previously excluded groups. She blends hard data and rigorous analysis with concrete solutions and on-the-ground action, founding the non-profit think-tank, Center for Talent Innovation, the Task Force for Talent Innovation, and Hewlett Consulting Partners.
Ian Johnson - CEO, Out Now Consulting (Global)
As the world's first LGBT research body, Johnson’s consultancy now provides businesses globally with detailed benchmarking audits, comparing individual workplaces with national averages, ensuring data evidence translates into enhanced employee outcomes. Johnson has served as a Board member of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Business Association. Founded in 1992, Out Now pioneered the first dollar-valuation of the business case underpinning LGBT diversity at work, among many other benchmarks.
Nia Joynson-Romanzina - Founder & Director, iCubed (Global)
Nia Joynson-Romanzina is Founder and Director of iCubed, delivering speaking, consulting, and coaching in cultural change, diversity & inclusion, and leadership. Nia is a frequent international keynote speaker, guest lecturer, panelist, and Huffington Post blogger. Former Managing Director and Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at UBS and Swiss Re, she has first hand experience of launching and driving global, groupwide strategies and action plans to foster inclusion and diversity throughout organisations.
Ravi Karkara - Senior Advisor Strategic Partnership and Advocacy, UN WOMEN (US)
With over 20 years’ experience, Ravi is an acknowledged expert in various development related fields. He has been driving innovation and advocacy as well as building strategic partnerships in the areas of human rights, participation, inclusion and gender equality, accountability, and social justice. Recently, Ravi developed a partnership between UN Women and the City of New York and organised a unique gender equality march with over 20,000 participants from the UN Headquarters to Times Square. Ravi has built UN Women’s Strategy on youth and gender equality and established and co-ordinates the Working Group on Youth and Gender Equality for the UN Interagency Network on Youth and Development.
Lisa Kepinski, Founder & CEO, Inclusion Institute (Germany) & Tinna C. Nielsen, Founder, Move the Elephant for Inclusiveness (Denmark)
With a background in social psychology and anthropology, Kepinski and Neilson used their vast experiences as internal I&D executive leaders to develop the concept ‘Inclusion Nudges’ because they felt awareness alone is not the answer. Their ‘Inclusion Nudges Guidebook’ shows techniques on I&D challenges in the employee life cycle and organisational culture that can create a more inclusive culture, improved decision making, and business performance.
Philip Patston - MD, Diversity New Zealand Ltd (New Zealand)
Patston has been working on diversity issues in New Zealand for decades, including a period working for the New Zealand Human Rights Commission. He was an award-winning professional comedian for over a decade. His focus is now his consultancy, Diversity New Zealand Ltd, which produces high standard social entrepreneurship services and a regular social media presence promoting progressive approaches to all diversity issues.
Suzanne Price - President and Managing Director of Inclusion and Diversity Consulting, Training and Coaching, Price Global (Japan)
Price founded her consultancy for Asia Pacific companies to progress their business culture, implementing an award-winning disability policy at Goldman Sachs Japan that hires and develops 10 people with disabilities annually. She delivered the first leadership programme for women in Asia for Coca-Cola, the first maternity coaching programme for UBS Securities, and at AXA Life Japan increased woman managers, people with disabilities, and the number of men taking paternity leave.
Jamie Washington - President of Washington Consulting Group and Co-Founder at Social Justice Training Institute (USA)
Rev Dr Jamie Washington is president and co-founder of WCG: a multicultural organisational development firm in Baltimore concerned with social cohesion and justice for all. Washington was an Asst. Professor of Women’s Studies at UMBC and is now a senior consultant with The Equity Consulting Group of California. Among many leadership positions, Washington worked tirelessly for The Campaign to End Homophobia and the National Bla
Battacharyya founded Altavis, a diversity consulting and hiring firm, and started the not-for-profit Biz Divas Foundation. By creating awareness on inclusive practices, conducting research, and building an advocacy platform, Biz Divas has impacted on more than 2,500 women and published two research papers, ‘Women on Boards’ and ‘Inclusion in India Inc’. Biz Divas also convenes an Inclusive Leadership conference - I INSPIRE, which has been attended by over 1000 corporates, entrepreneurs and NGOs.
Lesley Brook & Jacey Graham - Directors & Founders, Brook Graham (UK)
Graham co-founded the UK FTSE 100 Cross Company Mentoring Programme and is the author of ‘A Woman’s Place is in the Boardroom’ and ‘The Roadmap’, and is a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield. Brook is Trustee Director of the Albert Kennedy Trust. Executive leaders in blue-chip organisations for more than 20 years, their market-leading ‘Engaging Men’ programme enables companies to build vital gender intelligence. They coach leaders to understand and tackle unconscious bias and translate strategic goals into practical actions.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett - Economist and Columbia University professor (US)
An economist with 20 years’ experience in global talent management, Hewlett has focused on the "power of difference" and the challenges faced by women, minorities, LGBT, and other previously excluded groups. She blends hard data and rigorous analysis with concrete solutions and on-the-ground action, founding the non-profit think-tank, Center for Talent Innovation, the Task Force for Talent Innovation, and Hewlett Consulting Partners.
Ian Johnson - CEO, Out Now Consulting (Global)
As the world's first LGBT research body, Johnson’s consultancy now provides businesses globally with detailed benchmarking audits, comparing individual workplaces with national averages, ensuring data evidence translates into enhanced employee outcomes. Johnson has served as a Board member of Sydney Gay and Lesbian Business Association. Founded in 1992, Out Now pioneered the first dollar-valuation of the business case underpinning LGBT diversity at work, among many other benchmarks.
Nia Joynson-Romanzina - Founder & Director, iCubed (Global)
Nia Joynson-Romanzina is Founder and Director of iCubed, delivering speaking, consulting, and coaching in cultural change, diversity & inclusion, and leadership. Nia is a frequent international keynote speaker, guest lecturer, panelist, and Huffington Post blogger. Former Managing Director and Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at UBS and Swiss Re, she has first hand experience of launching and driving global, groupwide strategies and action plans to foster inclusion and diversity throughout organisations.
Ravi Karkara - Senior Advisor Strategic Partnership and Advocacy, UN WOMEN (US)
With over 20 years’ experience, Ravi is an acknowledged expert in various development related fields. He has been driving innovation and advocacy as well as building strategic partnerships in the areas of human rights, participation, inclusion and gender equality, accountability, and social justice. Recently, Ravi developed a partnership between UN Women and the City of New York and organised a unique gender equality march with over 20,000 participants from the UN Headquarters to Times Square. Ravi has built UN Women’s Strategy on youth and gender equality and established and co-ordinates the Working Group on Youth and Gender Equality for the UN Interagency Network on Youth and Development.
Lisa Kepinski, Founder & CEO, Inclusion Institute (Germany) & Tinna C. Nielsen, Founder, Move the Elephant for Inclusiveness (Denmark)
With a background in social psychology and anthropology, Kepinski and Neilson used their vast experiences as internal I&D executive leaders to develop the concept ‘Inclusion Nudges’ because they felt awareness alone is not the answer. Their ‘Inclusion Nudges Guidebook’ shows techniques on I&D challenges in the employee life cycle and organisational culture that can create a more inclusive culture, improved decision making, and business performance.
Philip Patston - MD, Diversity New Zealand Ltd (New Zealand)
Patston has been working on diversity issues in New Zealand for decades, including a period working for the New Zealand Human Rights Commission. He was an award-winning professional comedian for over a decade. His focus is now his consultancy, Diversity New Zealand Ltd, which produces high standard social entrepreneurship services and a regular social media presence promoting progressive approaches to all diversity issues.
Suzanne Price - President and Managing Director of Inclusion and Diversity Consulting, Training and Coaching, Price Global (Japan)
Price founded her consultancy for Asia Pacific companies to progress their business culture, implementing an award-winning disability policy at Goldman Sachs Japan that hires and develops 10 people with disabilities annually. She delivered the first leadership programme for women in Asia for Coca-Cola, the first maternity coaching programme for UBS Securities, and at AXA Life Japan increased woman managers, people with disabilities, and the number of men taking paternity leave.
Jamie Washington - President of Washington Consulting Group and Co-Founder at Social Justice Training Institute (USA)
Rev Dr Jamie Washington is president and co-founder of WCG: a multicultural organisational development firm in Baltimore concerned with social cohesion and justice for all. Washington was an Asst. Professor of Women’s Studies at UMBC and is now a senior consultant with The Equity Consulting Group of California. Among many leadership positions, Washington worked tirelessly for The Campaign to End Homophobia and the National Bla