Our team is here to help you realise your vision.

Our team

 
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Ella McCann-Tomlin

Founder & CEO

Ella is a creative, agile leader with a decade of experience leading highly successful teams in the fast-paced world of tech. Her varied and unusual career path has taken her from commercial leadership, to DEI & talent development. She has led large multi-functional departments and ridden the wave of hyper expansion from founding team member through to acquisition at one of the UK’s fastest growing companies.

Ella’s mission is to create more equitable organisations that centre empathy and human connection, and that focus on collective empowerment. She is also a passionate advocate for racial equity & queer liberation.

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Dr. Kirsty Gardiner

Research Director

Kirsty is a versatile and motivated Social Psychologist, with a PhD from Queen Mary University of London. She is an experienced lecturer in Psychology and Behaviour Change, leading and teaching on several prominent University courses. Kirsty is also a dedicated researcher, focusing specifically on the socio-cultural determinants of health and wellbeing - and believes ardently in the value of research for driving social change.

Kirsty is interested in the interaction between social justice issues, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability. Her expertise in social relationships and group dynamics provides a critical foundation from which DEI initiatives can emerge.

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Our values

  • Partnership

    We advocate for our clients’ businesses as if they are our own. We are not ‘advisors’ but co-conspirators in your mission to become more inclusive. We take your challenges personally, and we fiercely champion the positive changes needed to achieve the goals of each project. Sometimes that makes for tough conversations, but you can rest assured that we are always in your corner.

  • Community

    Top-down DEI initiatives fail. Ultimately it is your employees - not your executives - that our work is designed to serve.

    Those with the least power at your company will become the core voices in the work we do with you. We believe that your equity and inclusion strategy must centre those that feel least able to speak up or be heard. Our approach digs deep to build strong bonds at all levels of your organisation.

  • Authenticity

    We know that this work is difficult to engage in, and even more difficult to get right. We work hard to create psychological safety in all interactions, we are transparent with our clients about the need for healthy conflict, and we embrace vulnerability.

    Meaningful change can only be achieved by engaging in messy, complex, human work, and we strive for bravery over perfection.