Jo Dalton is one of the most trusted talent advisors in the UK, is immersed in the tech startup and scale-up ecosystem, and helps the founders and funders of future unicorns to build their boards and leadership teams. 

In our final episode of this podcast series, “Bouncing Back”, which Jo’s business JD&Co has kindly sponsored, Jo shares with us her own stories of adversity, her passion for disruption and growth, her experience of being a judge for the Great British Entrepreneur Awards for six years now, and the challenges of building diverse and inclusive leadership teams in today’s workplace.  

Tammy Banks is a super trainer and a standards bearer – in parliament as well as in her work delivering transformational training for frontline professionals. 

She and her team at Taye Training ensure that the lifesavers and superheroes of this world receive support, advice, skills and tools from a team of trainers who are values-led. 

Tammy’s personal experience of harm, abuse and homelessness, and her ‘bounce back’ story of how one woman brought her in from the margins of education, drive her not simply to be the change, but to create and deliver operational solutions, in the world today.



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When you meet Lynn Erasmus you immediately sense her warmth, high energy, humour and craziness (as her kids call her). Her ethos is “More fun and less glum”! 

When you hear Lynn’s story – a lifetime of pain resulting from loss, grief, fear, exclusion and flight from her homeland – you start to understand why she is determined to build a better life based on gratitude and appreciation.  

This multi-award-winning journalist, entrepreneur, publisher, coach, keynote speaker and CEO of Pathfinder Development talks honestly and vulnerably about how she has spent years purging and rebuilding her life, and how she now brings her healing work to enable other entrepreneurs to learn the skill of adaptability and to “Break Those Damn Rules”. 

Chi-chi Ekweozor was a pioneer of social media, music video and podcasting in the Noughties.  

And in the decade since she has upskilled in web development and software engineering, and in 2016 she founded Assenty, an interactive question board platform for event organisers. 

Chi-chi also organises Manchester’s acclaimed #FemaleTechFounder nights, one of the region’s foremost communities for supporting and nurturing female founders starting out in technology and business.

In this conversation Chi-chi explains what drives her incredibly creative and disciplined work ethic, and how she views her talent as a gift that she must share in a purposeful way. 

Hayley Hayes’ journey has seen her battle neglect, abuse, rejection, homelessness and poverty, to get to where she is today: a successful solicitor on track to become a partner at law firm Walker Morris LLP, and a happy mother and wife. 

In 2020 Hayley won the She Has No Limits’ Phoenix Award that celebrates women who have endured and risen from the ashes of hardship, and who have bounced back to achieve their career goals, against all odds. And, as a result, the Phoenix inspires others around her to be courageous and to never give up. In this moving episode we find out why Hayley Hayes is a Phoenix. 

Katie Neeves lived for 48 years as a man struggling with her gender and hiding her big secret to the world.  Her gender dysphoria caused her to go on a transformational voyage of discovery, leading to her courageously coming out, both personally and professionally.  

Katie now runs Cool2BTrans to support and inspire other trans people and to educate others on trans issues, by showing them that trans people are just ordinary people who want to be happy - just like everybody.  

Ben Grubert is an award-winning tech entrepreneur, as is his business Inevitable, because of his and their diverse thinking. 

In this episode, Ben divulges his ‘super powers’ of autism, ADHD and disability, his accidental mansplaining, how diverse leadership increases profitability and how toxic masculinity is hindering our societal quest for equality for all.

Rocki Howard self-identifies as proud female, over 40, black, Christian wife and mom.

And she is also an award-winning leader in the global fields of diversity, HR and recruitment.

In this episode we talk to Rocki about DEIB in business today, in AI and HRtech, and how she uses her inspirational career story and influence to showcase the diverse brilliance in corporate America and to help change the lives of the underrepresented.  

Olivia Hanlon founded Girls in Marketing aged 21, and now it is a 40,000 strong online community and membership platform for professional and aspiring marketers. Olivia is now 22. 

In this episode Olivia shares her huge success story so far and some of the limits placed on her, by others, because of their ageism. And we analyse other reasons why Olivia is a successful role model for younger women, entrepreneur and pioneer in the modern marketing industry.  

Gill Cooke is a community maker extraordinaire. Since founding STEMConnext in 2018 she has brought together hundreds of women and minorities in STEM careers to build a community where they can network, share ideas and support one another.

 In this episode Gill shares her learning’s from her diverse and atypical career so far, from broadcaster to technical project manager to now diversity, inclusion and belonging strategist and leader. Gill shares her personal drivers and vision for the future workplace that she is helping to shape where everyone can be their distinctive selves and design the careers they want.