Diversity Matters

Hispanic Heritage Month  (HHM) is celebrated to acknowledge the history, culture, and contributions of Americans whose ancestry can be traced to over 20 countries in Latin America, including Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. My guest this week is Robert Leal, Robert is a colleague presently working with Informa Markets as a sales account executive for the International Roo...

Mike's guest of this weeks show is Alex Robinson. Alex is a wife and mother who was born and grew up in Slovakia. She studied journalism and marketing at university. She moved to the UK 17 years ago and is currently working full time for financial advisors. Alex is a friend and someone I met at my local gym as part of what I call the 6am club, a very small group of regular early morning gym goers...

Mike's guest is Georgina Kennedy, a sales account executive at Cognassist , a company that was created with the single idea in mind to ensure neurodiversity is embraced every day. Georgie is an openly gay woman, diagnosed with ADHD and Dyxlexia, she has been working in sales for over 13 years but 4 years ago she actively moved into the neurodiversity space after realising that her neurodiverse dif...

The exhibition and events industry is one of the world's largest industries with exhibitions and events running everyday of every year with connecting millions of people who exhibit, trade and visit shows. A safe and inclusive environment in critical for the success and wellbeing for all. Mike's guest is Gabby Austin Brown, who discusses her work to create a safeguarding charter that can be adopte...

In the season finale, Mike gets a better understanding of Why Diversity Matters. His guest is expert, Professor Dr. Funke Abimbola MBE, a lawyer, inclusive business leader and DEI consultant. She currently works as a London-based partner at a global organisational consultancy, focusing on delivering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) solutions to clients across the Europe, Middle -East and Afri...

Mike talks to Stacy Simler, her passion for racial and social justice began at her church when she joined a national organization called BE THE BRIDGE TO RACIAL RECONCILLIATION and began uncovering the meaning of systemic racism in the US. She tells her story of becoming an ally and helping to educate white people on racial biases that are systemic in America dating back to the days of slavery and...

Dr Vinita Palaniveloo, chat with Mike about her determined journey growing up just outside of Chennai, India, to becoming an engineer and the struggles of being a mother returning to work and having to go back to junior engineering positions.

Mike chats with Samaira Khan on growing up learning to speak English at school by sign language, being taught to play football by her Brother and becoming a top player as well as managing a career and being single mother. Sam is a very passionate, energetic, remarkable young woman who handles life with positively and uses it to continually learn and grow.

Matt White grew up listening to a mixture of music from Soul, Calypso, Reggae, Jazz and Funk and started out as a local DJ playing at house parties for friends, then moving onto playing with Rap Attack , one of the biggest sound systems on the R&B scene, he then went on to join Soul to Soul with Jazzie B. and his Dj’ing has taken him all over the world playing at clubs and festivals. Matt is a...

Mike talks openly with Josephine van Zanten

Meera Somji, a data and analytics enthusiast with academic training in gender and race inequalities. She is the co-founder of Clusivity, a company that helps organisations take a data-driven approach to diversity, equity and inclusion. Meera discussions the importance of collecting data on diversity that helps to drive inclusion and increase retention.

Mike talks with Keisha Adair Swaby (BSc First Class Hon) MSc on her life experiences living with Dyslexia and Dyspraxia without knowing that this was a form of learning difference. Keisha provides an open honest discussions on the challenges and struggles through life with learning differences. She finally discovered that she was dyslexic with dyspraxia and dyscalculia at the age of 41 and then se...

In this episode Mike speaks with criminal defence lawyer, Mandy Hargun. Mandy is of Asian origin and discusses growing up and living above her parents shop, her journey to becoming a lawyer against her parents wishes, and being overlooked as a partner in a law firm and the sacrifices she made building her career. This is a very open and honest discussion through the eyes of a talented Asian female...

Don, share his experiences of growing up in working class family, discovering he was different, realizing he is gay and embracing his identity through his career in fashion

Mike speaks with Joshua Pierce, CEO The Diversity Org a non-profit organisation that partners with high schools and universities globally and multi-billion dollar corporations to teach minority and underrepresented students about how to obtain high-income jobs and fulfilling careers. Click the link to learn more about diversity.org The Diversity Org

This is the debut show with guest Ashanti Bentil-Dhue, a trained coach, facilitator, keynote speaker and DEI practitioner. She is also the Founder and CEO of Good Soil Leaders, an inclusion work culture and leadership development company, that takes a non-political cross cultural intersectional approach to training, upskilling and coaching stakeholders involved in DEI work. She also hosts her own...

Host Mike Sealy delivers a short promotion of his new show