Public Appointments Diversity Champion

Hear from the Commissioner of Public Appointments, his video explains:-

• What are the most required disciplines to be a successful board member

• How do you know which company is best for you and how to find the right company

• What are the top 3 capabilities / areas of expertise that public sector appointments value? 

• What weaknesses should be managed? 

• How to receive regular updates on new appointments as they are published

• Why senior business executives and commercial NEDs should consider a NED role within the public sector?

• What are some of the key differences between public vs. private NED appointments?

• What and how people with private sector, publicly listed company backgrounds can contribute to a public sector role? 

• What are the strengths you think professionals with commercial experience add to a public board?

Founder WinTradeGlobal Women's Network

Diversity In The UK Is Growing -

We Need To Reflect That In Our Boardrooms

Game changer, campaigner, activist, she has over 33 years, experience in the Communications, Marketing and PR industry, advising corporates, public sector, educational establishments and government championing equality, diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.  

Honoured by Queen Elizabeth II, and received 2 doctorates for her work in the Entrepreneurship, Global Diversity and Equality arena, she was recently nominated for and accepted into the prestigious St George’s House, Leadership organisation based at Windsor Castle, Windsor, and was  invested with an Honorary Fellowship by Kings College University London, January 2020.

She has published her first leadership book, “7 Traits of Highly Successful Women on Boards", promoting the path to and greater gender and race diversity in company boardrooms.

Yvonne sits on several boards, and public appointment committees including her most recent appointment as Chair of the Radio Academy, representing the  UK’s Radio Industry, and the Parker Review Committee – More Than One By 2021- advocating for more minorities on FTSE boards.  She was instrumental in encouraging Deloitte to include minority women on their  “Navigating the Boardroom” programme  and encouraging them to start” BAME on Boards.   

Celebrating the 23rd  anniversary of the first black women in business network set up in the UK she  also recently founded and  led the 3^rd WinTrade Week(Women In Trade)  convention and Awards themed “Womenomics” hosting and celebrating over 600 global women through a week of global business connections, networking, contracting and business development.

Find out more: www.msyvonnethompson.com     www.wintradeglobal.com

Non Executive Directors On Board

Making Our Boardrooms More Representative To Our Population

Elise Perraud is NEDonBoard’s Chief Operations Officer. Since joining the UK professional body for non-executive directors and board members in 2018, Elise has worked closely with seasoned professionals looking to start their NED career and experienced non-executive directors to identify and disseminate board best practices.

A risk manager and governance practitioner by background with 15 years of experience with Goldman Sachs and Rothesay Life, an insurance spin-off of Goldman Sachs, Elise also advises organisations with regards to their governance framework and arrangements.

Diversity Is Better For All

Eileen is currently leading a project at BEIS on improving diversity of public appointments, the Ministerial appointments to public body boards. 

She has worked on corporate governance in Government Departments for over 10 years and for over 5 of those has been involved with public appointments, initially in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and most recently in the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. 

 Eileen will talk about the process for appointing these roles, the sorts of roles that BEIS has and ones that are coming up soon, and the work to improve the diversity of the board’s memberships.

Cabinet Office Supports Diversity On Boards 

Faye joined the Cabinet Office in January this year to lead on talent and outreach for the Public Appointments Policy Team. She has previously worked in a number of policy roles both in and outside of government, most recently at the Department for Work and Pensions. She will be talking about the government's ambitions for increasing diversity in public appointments.