Jenni is a Senior Inclusion and Diversity Consultant, supporting members to develop their inclusive culture to unlock the potential of their workforces.

She has delivered change projects and programmes within arts, culture, homelessness, and policing, with expertise in supporting public service organisations to understand and meet their public sector equality duties. She is adept at identifying the stepping stones that can create long-range systemic change to foster an inclusive workforce culture that ensures fair, legitimate services.

What do you enjoy about your role at Inclusive Employers?

The unique and diverse range of members who share our goal of improving inclusion is really inspiring! Each member has their own story, experiences, priorities and ways of working to build a better workplace or service – being able to support their progress is exciting.

Our Inclusive Employers team is also unique. The team have a highly diverse range of professional and personal experiences, which creates opportunities to learn, grow and innovate together to drive forward our goal of improving inclusion in every space we touch.

What has been your biggest achievement to date?

Prior to joining Inclusive Employers I worked as an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager with my local police force.

I joined after the force had failed their public inspection and was put into special measures. I collaborated with colleagues across the organisation to improve the equality and ethics issues that led to failing the inspection, and together our work led to improvements that got us out of special measures. My focus then turned to the long-term development of our workforce to ensure they could continue to work on bringing the Police Code of Ethics to life. I delivered a learning needs assessment to diagnose, design and deliver a learning programme for each level of practitioner in the team to build a culturally competent and psychologically safe workforce.

I’m really proud that I was able to contribute to the force’s improvement journey out of special measures, and know I left the team with a great plan on how to continue to develop their workforce into the future before I left for a new adventure.

What is the best advice you have ever been given?

I have worked with some incredible people who I’ve had brilliant advice from, but I think the best advice I’ve been given was when I was 18. I was told: disruption is inevitable and important, so you need to get comfortable being uncomfortable.

I still lean into this advice all the time – it has absolutely shaped my life and career!

Tell us something about you that we might not know.

I once played chicken with an alligator and won.