Leading Partnerships at LinkedIn

Bruna is a Channel Sales Leader with extensive experience in the tech industry, marketing, partnerships, and digital advertising. Currently working at LinkedIn, she leads Channel sales in the Ad Technology space, driving the growth of LinkedIn’s Marketing Partner Program in EMEA.

Bruna has a global role within LinkedIn’s LGBT+ network leading investment efforts in LGBT+ leadership. As a member of LinkedIn’s Social Impact Board, she has worked with numerous non-profits to create opportunity for youths from diverse backgrounds. In 2018 and 2019, Bruna has been recognised by OUTstanding in the Financial Times and Yahoo Finance as a top LGBT+ Emerging Leader. In 2020, she was shortlisted by the British LGBT Awards under the Diversity Hero category.

CEO at Open for Business

Dominic is Chief Executive of Open for Business (OFB), a coalition of global organisations dedicated to supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion. Open for Business use data and research to make the economic case for LGBTQ+ inclusion. Open for Business has programmes in East Africa, The Caribbean, Central and Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. While at Open for Business he developed their five-year strategy and has showcased their work at platforms around the world including Davos.

Previous to working for Open for Business Dominic was Chief Executive of Just Like Us, the LGBT+ young people’s charity, which grew to work with more than half of all secondary schools in the UK and also previously Head of Projects and Programmes for Stonewall, leading their education programmes team and also their international programmes team, delivering several international programmes supporting human rights defenders in Russia and Eastern Europe; the Western Balkans and Turkey.

Dominic also worked as Head of Programme Management for Mind, delivering the £25 million Time to Change campaign designed to challenge stigma around mental health conditions.

Dominic is on the board of London Bisexual Network and lives in Brighton, UK with his partner and his cat.

Co-founder, The Girls’ Network

Charly Young co-founded The Girls’ Network. The Girls’ Network believes that no girl’s future should be limited by their background, gender or parental income.

The Girls’ Network is building a network of passionate and committed women and girls, organisations and individuals, to support teenage girls from the least advantaged communities across England.

Charly believes that mentoring, access to opportunities and the support and confidence to seize them, can be transformational. She wants to use her experience as a teacher and an entrepreneur to find the most effective way to support the future generation of female leaders. Charly wants to use her platform as charity CEO to share what works well, and to mobilise others to help ensure that neither one’s gender nor their family income determine the opportunities that are available to young people.

Freelance social innovation consultant & post-graduate student at the University of Cambridge

Social innovation researcher and consultant working to ensure that emerging technologies are used for good.

Rosie’s career has been driven by wanting to make the changes which really change the world.

That desire has taken her on a journey from understanding how to fight poverty fatigue in the international development sector to improving the data systems that underpin economic justice in the financial industry. Throughout it she’s always tried to understand the reality over the rhetoric which has naturally led her back to academia and the opportunity to contribute both her research and lived experience to the conversation.

That journey has also allowed her to develop her own leadership skills whilst learning when to step back and empower others around her. As a result, in addition to her studies at Cambridge, she also runs her own consultancy, allowing her to learn through collaborating with inspiring innovators.

She is also passionate about serving through volunteering with mental health and homelessness being deeply important issues to her. Outside of work she’s a photographer, performer and author.

Sherma, currently leading the Careers Service at the University of Birmingham Dubai, is a highly accomplished Careers Consultant with a diverse background in mental health and recruitment. Utilising this experience, as a Fair recruitment advisor, she offers guidance addressing critical issues such as reasonable adjustments and racial bias in recruitment processes. Her contributions span institutions including London School of Economics and the University of Greenwich, as well as speaker events with UniversitiesUK and Gulf News Edufair.

Sherma is also a seasoned Career Coach, leveraging her expertise she guides individuals through various career transitions such as entering the workforce for the first time and navigating career changes. She also collaborates with organisations such as the Women’s Higher Education Network and InvestIn, facilitating career development programs.

Geffrye (he/him) is the CEO of, The Inclusion Imperative, an independent DE&I consultancy practice which Geff founded in 2022 to help commercial organisations build leadership capabilities and harness the power of inclusion.

In doing so, Geff draws on 35 years’ experience in front office executive roles, based in the UK, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Netherlands, with leading international financial and professional services organisations. During that time, Geff stewarded his former employer, Macquarie, to #1 in Stonewall’s annual inclusion rankings, while his side-of-desk DE&I work was recognised by the British LGBT Awards, the PinkNews Awards, The Guardian and OUTstanding.

Alongside Career Accelerator, Geff holds Board, Trustee or Advisory roles with GiveOut, Open for Business, Voda and Pride in Tennis, and formerly with Diversity Role Models.

Jon coaches leaders and advises boards globally. He serves on the board of the Alwan Foundation and has chaired the boards of the Social Innovation Exchange; All Out; the STOP AIDS Project; Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration; and Khulisa. Jon was a Partner with The Bridgespan Group in New York and San Francisco, and prior he was a Partner with Bain & Company, where he was a founder of the firm’s LGBT employee group, and served clients from the offices in Johannesburg and Toronto.

He has run three companies: a $75M health care operation on four continents; a firm leading economic development in emerging countries; and an LGBT web company. His articles have been published widely, including in Stanford Social Innovation Review, Huffington Post, and The Guardian. He has visited more than half of the countries in the world.

Consultant, Coach, Writer, Speaker

Jae is an organisational development consultant, holistic coach, writer, speaker and artist with expertise in business strategy, human performance, inclusion & diversity, leadership and change. They have 30 years’ professional experience working in multinationals, education and non-profits. Jae lives in Southwest Wales with their husband, Greg, and dog, Fred. Read more about Jae here.

Jordan is a customer experience leader, with a wealth of knowledge in operations, customer experience turnarounds, digital innovation, and business transformation, both within top FTSE 100 companies and smaller scale-up organisations. At Bionic, Jordan oversees customer service, frontline operations, and the ‘voice of the customer’ CX program. Additionally, Jordan is accountable for crafting and executing Bionics’ broader CX strategy, which is pivotal in driving Bionic’s efforts to differentiate itself through superior customer experience to deliver business growth.

George is passionate about people and career development. His own experience has taught him that it takes just ‘one person in your corner’ to have a profound impact on a career and skills journey.

He is a HR leader with broad experience at some of the UK’s most loved tech and telco brands. Currently, George leads on talent and performance management at BT Group. Before this, he has led a range of global programmes across organisational culture, early careers, talent acquisition and business partnering.