Championing success for diverse ethnic backgrounds

Elizabeth is a motivational Public speaker on Equalities , An Educator, A Personal development Coach, an Anti racism champion and an Ambassador for Show Racism the Red Card . She has her own educational Equality Diversity and Inclusion Training & Consultancy, highlighting the intersectional concerns for race equity, women ‘s equality and safety, lgbt+ and disability rights alongside dedicated work to improve workers rights in all those areas. Working across political parties , the public sector and third sector services.

Tes is an Associate Partner in EY Manchester.

He is a Chartered Accountant and has enjoyed being an auditor at EY for 21 years.

He is passionate about helping businesses, in developing the people around him and growing the EY business sustainably.

He loves Manchester, the city he grew up around including where he went to University and has probably spent most of his life in and around the NW.

He lives in Bury with his wife Shona and their 3 children.   At weekends you can find him with his family or out on his mountain bike.

A focused leader evidenced by a strong achievement record. Claire has a track record in developing, implementing and embedding strategic Learning and Development which supports businesses to successfully and sustainably deliver high performance. A qualified business coach, agile accredited and Growth Mindset practitioner with a successful track record of leading agile working teams. Claire is the sponsor for an executive talent programme for Black women at Thales and a global coach for diverse talent across business and sport.

Ngozi Weller is a wellbeing and productivity consultant and an ICF accredited coach who helps build resilience into your business by creating psychologically safe workplaces that enable employees to thrive. Her programmes increase employee engagement, drive productivity, and promote lasting behavioural change.

Having worked for over 15 years in the world of Big Oil, Ngozi has experienced first-hand how challenging the corporate world can be. Following her own battle with work-related depression and anxiety, she set up Aurora with her psychologist cousin Obehi to normalise the conversation around workplace mental health and to provide strategic wellbeing support designed to strengthen your employees’ mental resilience and improve workplace productivity. She is also the co-host of the award-winning podcast ‘The Wellbeing Rebellion’.