Quilter

• Lead HR Business Partner to the Chief Distribution Officer, responsible for Quilter’s Platform, Investment and Advice business — a core part of the Group’s commercial strategy.
• Manage a team of three HR and DEI professionals, overseeing delivery across employee relations, performance, retention and organisational effectiveness.
• Align people strategy with Quilter’s commercial priorities, embedding inclusion, wellbeing and equitable decision-making across the Distribution business.

Head of HR - Chief Distribution Office

Board Trustee

• Partner with ExCo to design and deliver Quilter’s Inclusion & Diversity Strategy, embedding DEI into business, culture, and risk management.
• Built Quilter’s data foundation for change: increased diversity disclosure completion to 80%+, enabling robust gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religion and socioeconomic reporting and strategy.
• Advanced wellbeing transformation - launched Menopause & Health policy (2022), and Wellbeing Support Guide (2023) accessed by 1,000+ employees.
• Established Quilter’s Inclusion & Diversity Forum (avg. 200–350 attendees) covering various topics from woke and cancel culture to suicide prevention, with consistently high ratings (8–9/10).

Drove measurable progress 
	- Senior leadership female representation increased from 35% (2020) → 44% (2024), surpassing 2025 target.
	- Ethnically diverse senior leadership increased from 2% (2020) → 9% (2024), exceeding Parker Review targets early.

Recognition:
• Winner – Best DE&I Initiative (PIMFA Awards 2024)
• Highly Commended – Best D&I Initiative (Professional Adviser Awards 2025)
• Shortlisted – D&I Champion of the Year, Women in Investment Awards 2024

Group Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

GSMA

• Partnered with HRD and C-Suite to design GSMA’s global DEI strategy, providing advice across EMEA, APAC, LATAM and North America.
• Built frameworks for leadership accountability: including the inclusive language guide (adopted company-wide), and reporting dashboards.
• Founded the OneGSMA Forum (employee-led) and supported various networks.
• Delivered educational sessions on race equity, colourism, ageism, and inclusive language to global leaders and staff.
• Recruited across the full spectrum of talent, from early careers to senior marketing executives, ensuring fair and inclusive hiring processes.
• Achieved measurable progress in diversity engagement scores (Qualtrics survey): 2018 – 61% favourable → 2019 – 77% favourable → 2020 – 83% favourable.

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My entry into the corporate world began through a social mobility charity, The Brokerage, which gave me my first internship at Société Générale in 2006, and entry into the world of financial services.

I’ve built my career on tackling what others often find hardest to face, working on closing performance gaps, and creating equity in pay and progression. My approach is always to pair data with humanity, using evidence to shine a light on inequities, then partnering with leaders to remove them.

When I joined Quilter, my first three years were dedicated to building the foundations, turning diversity data into a tool for strategy, accountability and change. Today, that data spans gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background and more, and it shapes how we make decisions at Board and ExCo level.

Over four years in this role, I’ve seen what happens when data is combined with bold people leadership. Our diversity and inclusion scores now outpace the industry, leadership representation is shifting, and colleagues are experiencing fairer and more supportive workplaces. This progress has been recognised externally, with Quilter winning Best DE&I Initiative (PIMFA Awards 2024) and being Highly Commended (Professional Adviser Awards 2025).

Now in my dual role as Head of HR for the Chief Distribution Office and Group Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Wellbeing, I bring the same evidence-led and people-centred approach to every aspect of the people agenda, whether it’s retention, early careers, equitable decision-making, or equipping leaders at all levels to be more inclusive.

For me, success is simple, use data to reveal the barriers, use leadership and management to remove them, and create an environment where both people and business thrive.


My favourite quotes 

“Train people well enough so they can leave; treat them well enough so they don’t want to.” ~ Richard Branson

"When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed." ~ Michelle Obama

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