Our fifth episode of OUTsights sees the regular team, Sabrina Trinquetel and Josephine Hansom speak to two more amazing guests. 

Steve Keith talks to us about why and how he created The Queer Student Awards. He tells us how he wanted young LGBTQ+ people to have a safe space to be celebrated and share all the amazing bold work they are doing to drive initiatives forward. 

https://www.thequeerstudentawards.co.uk/

Magda Markowska talks about the LGBTQ+ Consumer reports. The latest one being run in the UK in partnership with Unilever, but others also exist around the globe. These are available in the public so if you're looking for consumer insights, including expectation from businesses and involvement in inclusion from this group, check them out.

https://nielseniq.com/global/en/insights/report/2021/understanding-the-lgbtq-consumer-in-the-u-k/

We share our regular #podgoss updates including highlighting the film 'Gay Black Group' - available on the BFI now, which brings stories of being part of this intersect in1980's Britain. https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-gay-black-group-1983-online

We also direct people to try out the Versiti self assessment for equality for your business to see where you currently stand and help direct the future.: https://www.blog.versiti.co/equality-self-assessment?utm_campaign=ESA_Versiti&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=Diehard

And finally we touch upon things we are proud of in our #prideofthepod section, including shout out for the MRS mentoring scheme: https://www.mrs.org.uk/learningCPD/mentoring

And the MRS Pride xCORe film on Intersectionality within market research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9H47eDpDMM&list=WL&index=56&t=4s

Get in touch: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9022761/

Magda Markowska

Magda works as an Insight Team Manager at NielsenIQ. She’s also a leader of European Women in NielsenIQ network and for 5 years was leading Pride (LGBT+ and allies) network in the company. She was recognized as 2021 Top 100 LGBT+ Future Leader and in 2022 was listed as Top 10 Future Leaders by British LGBT Awards.

Magda is a non-binary queer person. She was born and raised in a small town in Poland in the 80s. She moved to the UK in 2019 where she lives with her wife. A total geek, shy introvert and punk at heart. A firm believer in diversity, equality and inclusion and an advocate of intersectionality.

Steve Keith, The Branding Man

With 16 years of combined experience working in education and early careers recruitment and a passion for supporting young people in making more informed careers choices, Steve is on a mission to create better access to the world of work, using brand experiences that celebrate difference. After leading on several nationally recognised and award-winning apprenticeship focused employer brand campaigns, with professional services firm EY, he left full-time employment in 2018 to launch my own consultancy, The Branding Man.
 
 Over the last 4 years the focus of his work has shifted towards diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging. Part of this journey has involved becoming a podcast host, speaking openly about his struggles with mental

In this our fourth episode, we have some great guests, we recap what MRS Pride is all about and of course we have our regular segments #podgoss and #prideofthepod. Call out on the Diva Awards shortlist 2021 with some surprises for our podcast hosts!  If you have any gossip or prides you'd like us to share on the next podcast, just tweet us @tweetmrspride

We're joined by Simon Pollock (he/him), from Cereal Partners Worldwide and Sasha Scott, who founded Inclusive Group. 

Simon talks us through how he came to be where he is and the ups and downs of how his team have been navigating Covid, and the huge increase in breakfast cereal sales! 

Sasha (she/her) helps businesses action inclusive strategies. Something that is tricky to implement, Sasha has been doing it for 20 years! As the market research industry starts to make progress in this area, it's great to tap into expert experiences to help us drive change. 

Our Hosts:
Josephine Hansom (she/her) - MD at Youthsight, getting a better understanding Gen Z and Millennials
Sabrina Trinquetel (she/her) - UK Sales Lead at Measure Protocol, the fastest way to access behavioural data

Our Guests:
 
Simon Pollock - VP Consumer Insight and Analytics at Cereal Partners Worldwide

Sasha Scott - CEO and Founder of Inclusive Group

Get in touch with us:
LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9022761/

Welcome to OUTsights, a podcast brought to you by MRSpride and our principal sponsor YouGov. MRSpride is committed to represent, support and amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ colleagues, allies and heroes.

We are joined this time by two amazing guests. Chloe Fowler, a veritable veteran of the industry, most recently having launched her solo venture Nest Research, a qual agency focusing on storytelling. Chloe spotlights her career in the industry so far, talks about writing actual letters with actual stamps and writing about sheep. She discusses the tricky balance between bringing your whole self to work (see, shaved heads and Diva magazine hobbies) and being a neutral moderator in order to do your job well (see, changing language to partner not wife, and playing down any 'tells'). Her new projects still allow her an outlet to be deeply bossy and controlling, and watch out for her latest book based on an Elvis Drag King... what more could you want.

Our second guest Ed Jervis, is an inclusive distributor and hugely passionate about it. Early years as a gay catholic in the troubles fostered a passion for social justice and inclusion.

His focus is on upending talent aquisition to better drive EDI. Through 2 new projects, Inclusion Crowd, and Inclusive.Earth a global Think Tank, Ed is challenging passive thinking and action by exposing organisations to apply the same logic as other commercial focused initiatives for inclusivity. He's not happy with the rate of change and he's here to do something about it. If you need inspiration or advice, don't hesitate to reach out to him.

Our Hosts:
Josephine Hansom- MD at Youthsight, getting a better understanding Gen Z and Millennials
Sabrina Trinquetel- UK Sales Lead at Measure Protocol, a person-based data marketplace specialising in behavioural data.

Our Guests:

Ed Jervis- Founder of the global Think Tank- Inclusion.Earth, and founder of Inclusion Crowd, helping organisations create authentic DEI programmes and recruitment.
Chole Fowler- Founder of Nest Research, story focussed qual research, co-founder of Razor Research and author

Get in touch with us:
LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9022761/

Welcome to OUTsights, a podcast brought to you by MRSpride and our principal sponsor YouGov. MRSpride is committed to represent, support and amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ colleagues, allies and heroes.

In this, our second episode, we speak to two of the founding members of Colour of Research (CORe), which advocates for the inclusion of ethnic professionals in the market research industry. It’s mission is to make professionals of diverse ethnicities seen and heard in a sector that they love, but are currently under represented in. Speaking to Charlene  Adamah and Graham Idehen, we hear why there was a need to create the CORe group in the research sector and what the group has already achieved to date. We also speak to Craig Donald from The FA who tells us how The FA became involved in Pride, and how being part of the event and marching was a magical moment for him and his colleagues.

Hosts:

• Josephine Hansom, Managing Director, YouthSight Research
• Sabrina Qureshi, Client Director, Motif

Guests:

• Charlene Adamah, Senior Key Account Manager, Bilendi
• Craig Donald, Chief Information Officer, The FA
• Graham Idehen, Director, Customer Success – EMEA, Lucid

OUTsights is a new podcast from MRSpride, a network connecting LGBTQ+ researchers and allies across the research, insight and data analytics sectors. We want to amplify LGBTQ+ voices and stories, inspire, learn and have a bit of a laugh.