Shereen Daniels is Managing Director of HR rewired, a Vice Chair of Black Business Association (London Chamber of Commerce & Industry) and she recently spoke with Jennifer Gaster of HR Heads about her work and some of the common challenges she sees in the organisations she works with.

Paul McPartlan is the Chief Executive Officer at Places Leisure, which is part of the Places For People Group, he spoke to Executive Heads' Craig Elvin about his career and how he sees the sector moving forward.

Diversity and Inclusion isn't just a box to check, diversity is in all of us, and we all want to feel included and have that sense of belonging.

What we all would benefit from is a world, a society and a workplace culture where everyone, no matter what their background, is treated with fairness, respect, equality and dignity plus has agency over their opportunities – for us all to be able to show up as our whole selves and to not have to cover or mask a key part of our identity in order to conform and ‘culture fit’.

Surely, that’s all you’d expect for yourself, is it not?

The benefits are clear:

Joanne is the guest speaker at our next Breakfast Forum, on the Why of D&I, click here to register now.

In this episode, James Dobbin talks to George Booth, Chief Procurement Officer of Lloyds Banking Group. Lloyds Banking Group plc is a British financial institution formed through the acquisition of HBOS by Lloyds TSB in 2009. It is one of the UK's largest financial services organisations, with 30 million customers and 65,000 employees. As CPO, George leads a team of 300 Sourcing and Supply Chain Management professionals. 

In this episode, James Dobbin talks to Ian McNally, Vice President at Efficio. Efficio is the world’s largest procurement consultancy operating across ten offices in Europe, North America and the Middle East.

Nour-Eddine Boufertala (Head of Procurement at the England and Wales Cricket Board), Ruaidhri Dunn (Head of Procurement at the Football Association) and Simon Oldcorn (Head of Procurement & Supply Chain at the Rugby Football Union) discuss the effects COVID-19 has had on sport with James Dobbin from Procurement Heads.