Sheila Wild
Sheila Wild was for many years the Director of Employment Policy at the Equal Opportunities Commission (the EOC), where she led a number of major projects on workplace issues affecting women.
Sarah Jackson
Sarah is the Chief Executive of Working Families and has led work-life balance campaigning and culture change for over twenty years. Sarah is an acknowledged expert and has worked across the political spectrum to push for positive change including the right to request flexible working, maternity and paternity leave and fathers’ rights at work.
Fiona Hathorn
Fiona is Managing Director of Women on Boards in the UK and is a Trustee of the Charity Fight for Sight. She is a passionate angel investor and helped to found one of the first female angel investment clubs, Incito Ventures.
Ben Willmott
Ben leads the CIPD’s Public Policy team, which works to inform and shape debate, government policy and legislation in order to enable higher performance at work and better pathways into work for those seeking employment.
Ann Francke
Ann Francke, CEO of Chartered Management Institute (CMI), author of: Financial Times Guide to Management: How to Make a Difference and Get Results and winner of the ‘Louis Armstrong award for outstanding leadership of a UK professional body’ at the 2016 MemCom Awards.
Simon Fanshawe OBE
Simon Fanshawe OBE is an entrepreneur, non-exec director, broadcaster, writer and campaigner. He is a co founder and partner in his main business, astar-fanshawe , a ground breaking equality, diversity and organizational transformation consultancy (www.astar-fanshawe.co.uk).
Helen Wollaston
Helen joined WISE in June 2012, combining the legacy of a publicly funded UK Resource Centre for women in science, engineering and technology with the WISE brand to form a unified campaign, promoting female talent in STEM from classroom to boardroom.
Emma Stewart MBE
Listed as one of the UK’s ‘social entrepreneurs to watch’ by Real Business magazine and listed as one of the ‘UK’s Top Radical thinkers’ by the Guardian and Nesta, Emma Stewart MBE is the co-founder and Joint CEO of Timewise Foundation (timewise.co.uk), and also Women Like Us.
Dr Zara Nanu
Dr. Zara Nanu is a women’s rights expert. Over the past decade she has been spearheading equality projects and providing support to women in business and the corporate world. She has expertise in linking gender mainstreaming policies with practical business solutions.
Sam Smethers
Sam Smethers is the Chief Executive of the Fawcett Society and took up her post in 2015. Prior to that she was the Chief Executive of Grandparents Plus for over six years.