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Copyright © 2021 BAE Systems. All rights reserved. BAE SYSTEMS is a registered trademark of BAE Systems plc. Welcome We are delighted to welcome you all to Once again, we have brought together a Scotland’s fifth Diversity Conference – the fantastic line up of speakers and panellists second time we have held this virtually to support how you and your organisation in the last 12 months. Whilst many of us take further steps to achieving inclusive would have liked to be meeting in person to workplaces. Difficult and challenging discuss, exchange knowledge, ask questions conversations still need to take place and share experiences we believe that this despite the wider issues around us and our format continues to foster the spirit of our Conference provides a safe and inclusive previous events. space to do this. We have all faced huge challenges over the The support of our partner organisations, last year and we know that many people BAE Systems, CMS, Diageo, J.P. Morgan, Skills have been impacted directly by Covid in Development Scotland and s1jobs, is more many ways. important than ever and we are hugely grateful Our conference this year will reflect, re- for their commitment to supporting this event focus and hopefully continue to engage with and the diversity and inclusion agenda. you all on the importance of diversity and And you – our diversity champions – are inclusion in our workplaces and our society. what makes this event special.

33 “ Committed to making diversity and inclusion central to our business, with our clients, our people and our communities.”

Allan Wernham CMS Scotland, Managing Director

We strongly believe that diversity and inclusion should play a major role in how employers develop their strategy as they look to build a sustainable future and emerge from the pandemic.

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CMS Scotland cms.law/scotland Host RACHEL McTAVISH With over 20,000 hours of live TV broadcasting under her belt, Rachel McTavish is one of the UK’s most experienced broadcast journalists. In the last 20 years Rachel has worked for ITV, BBC, FIVE, GMTV, STV, ITV London and a host of corporate and foreign broadcasters. The result is that Rachel has a diverse range of credits from being on air and leading the ITV Newschannel’s coverage of the Twin Tower attacks on 11th September 2001 to presenting an Online car show. During lockdown Rachel and her husband built a TV studio in her garden from where she presented weekly ‘McTavish Shedcasts’.

55 Itinerary: morning

10.30AM ARRIVAL & NETWORKING Meghan Logue, Technical Success Manager, Odro Cameron Smith, Development Worker, Scottish 11.00AM Commission for People with Learning Disabilities WELCOME 12.00PM INCLUSION IN A NEW INTERVAL WORKING WORLD 11.10AM 12.15PM EMPLOYEE WELLBEING & INCLUSION KEYNOTE SPEAKER – MANAGING MENTAL PANEL DISCUSSION HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE Dorileen Forbes, Occupational Health Matt Evans, Managing Director, Recruiting, JP Morgan Wellbeing Programme Manager, Diageo Charlene Sweeney, Associate Director, BIG Partnership 11.35AM Carolyn Anderson, Director of Human LIVED EXPERIENCE PANEL DISCUSSION Resources, Skills Development Scotland – REALITY OF WORKING DURING A PANDEMIC Connie Crawford, Senior IT Auditor, KPMG 12.45PM Michael Hilferty, Construction Site LUNCH & NETWORKING Administrator, City Building

6 Itinerary: afternoon

CONTINUING PROGRESS Aneela McKenna, Diversity, Wellbeing & Inclusion Manager, Scottish Parliament 1.45PM Mhairi Taylor, Head of Equality, Diversity and MAINTAINING MOMENTUM AND Inclusion, University of Glasgow KEEPING INCLUSION AT THE HEART OF OUR DECISION-MAKING PANEL DISCUSSION MAKING CHANGE A REALITY Mike Douglas, Director, Social Enterprises, – THE NEXT FIVE YEARS Age Scotland Colin Macfarlane, Director, Stonewall Scotland Tressa Burke, Chief Executive, Glasgow 3.10PM Disability Alliance KEYNOTE SPEAKER – CONVERSATION WITH HOST Gary Kildare, NED/Chair/Board Advisor/ 2.15PM Former CHRO for IBM Corporation Europe KEYNOTE SPEAKER - A PAUSE AND REFLECT MOMENT ON 5 YEARS OF A DIVERSITY JOURNEY 3.25PM CLOSING REMARKS Lynne Connolly, Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion, Standard Life Aberdeen 3.30PM ONLINE VIRTUAL NETWORKING 2.40PM PANEL DISCUSSION – RACE EQUALITY - MAKING ASPIRATIONS A REALITY 4.00PM Enoch Adeyemi, Founder & CEO, Black VIRTUAL PLATFORM CLOSES Professionals Scotland

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8 DIAGEO IN SCOTLAND

Diageo is a company with a rich Scottish heritage - our roots can be traced back to 1627 and the Haig family. Since then, Scotland has played an important role in shaping Diageo and we now export our premium brands to 180 markets around the world.

Scotland is one of Diageo’s largest spirit supply centres responsible for producing around 50 million cases of leading brands of Scotch whisky and white spirits annually. We employ around 3,000 people in Scotland, working in over 50 communities across the country. Around 85% of Diageo’s production in Scotland is sold overseas.

At Diageo we believe the most inclusive and diverse culture makes for a better business and a better world; so we will champion inclusion & diversity across our business, with our partners and communities, to celebrate diversity and help shape a tolerant society. Our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings. We have a diverse workforce made up of thousands of talented people, each with their own story to tell. We are proud that Diageo is one of the leading FTSE 100 companies for female representation at board and executive level and in Scotland we are making progress towards achieving greater diversity in the workplace through a range of initiatives focused on building an inclusive culture across our organisation. Keynote Speakers

MATT EVANS LYNNE CONNOLLY GARY KILDARE Managing Director, Global Head of Diversity NED/Chair/Board Advisor/ Recruiting, JP Morgan & Inclusion, Standard Life Former CHRO for IBM Aberdeen PLC Corporation Europe Matt leads Talent Acquisition for Asset & Wealth Lynne is a qualified banker Gary is an experienced global Management and is EMEA / and HR professional by trade, business executive in the LATAM (Europe, Middle East working in National Australia technology and professional & Africa / Latin America) Group, Barclays, the National services industry. He has lived Head of Firmwide Talent Health Service and Standard and worked around the world, Acquisition. He sits on the Life Aberdeen. She is a member leading teams and working with EMEA HR Management of a number of industry clients. He was the Chief HR Team and Global Talent groups and established, and Officer for Europe and Global Acquisition Leadership Team. chairs, the Diversity Project Head of Labour Relations for Prior to joining the firm, he Scotland Chapter which aims the IBM Corporation based in held senior HR / Recruiting to help Financial Services be New York and Madrid; CHRO positions at Credit Suisse accessible to all talent. In 2019 for IBM’s consulting business and RBS. Lynne received the Institute of based in Paris, CHRO for Directors ‘Director of the Year’ Global Technology Services, award for Inclusivity in Scotland based in New York; and as Vice and was highly commended President of HR for Americas, in the IoD UK awards. Most EMEA and Asia Pacific. He recently, SLA’s commitment and was a member of IBMs Senior impact have been acknowledged Leadership Group appointed in the Scottish Diversity by the CEO to provide global Awards, Responsible Business leadership and stewardship Awards, as well as in a number across key strategic areas to of global indices. accelerate growth. 101010 Panel Members LIVED EXPERIENCE PANEL DISCUSSION – REALITY OF WORKING DURING A PANDEMIC

CONNIE CRAWFORD MICHAEL HILFERTY Senior IT Auditor, KPMG Construction Site Administrator, City Building

Whilst pursuing a demanding career, Connie Michael has been working as a Site Administrator has continued to independently run a household with City Building for nearly thirty-five years. and home-school. Having tried many routines During this time, he has been involved in to try to find the right one from 5 am starts to many aspects of the company’s operation as a midnight finishes, one year on, she have realised maintenance and construction company. that she must prioritise herself. Michael is registered as a carer for his father. After being a stroke victim and suffering TIA’s, Michael’s dad was diagnosed over ten years ago with cerebral atrophy. This had subsequently been connected to dementia. The physical aspect of him suffering a stroke and continued illness, led him to become disabled. Currently he is wheelchair bound, although therapy can be exhausting for him.

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MEGHAN LOGUE CAMERON SMITH Technical Success Manager, Odro Development Worker, Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities Meghan Logue works as a Technical Success Manager at Odro, a leading video interviewing Having left school to start a Supported and engagement platform for recruiters. Prior to Employment project, Cameron joined SCLD as joining Odro in 2017, one of only six staff at the a receptionist. His skills, abilities and enthusiasm time, Meghan spent four and half years in retail have seen him change job role several times, each management following completion of her degrees new post bringing new opportunities, challenges in Broadcast Production at the University of and responsibilities. Currently, Cameron is a the West of Scotland and Sports Journalism at Development worker at SCLD, a role which University of the Arts London. allows him to use his natural abilities as a leader and role model to support others with learning disabilities to take advantage of opportunities to learn, develop and participate in the work of SCLD. Cameron also runs a Cub Pack in East Kilbride and is a keen fundraiser, most recently raising money for Angelman UK by completing the virtual kiltwalk.

12 Panel Members EMPLOYEE WELLBEING & INCLUSION PANEL DISCUSSION

DORILEEN FORBES CHARLENE SWEENEY CAROLYN ANDERSON Occupational Health Wellbeing Associate Director, Director of Human Resources, Programme Manager, Diageo BIG Partnership Skills Development Scotland

Dorileen is part of Diageo’s A specialist in media strategy Carolyn has worked in HR UK and Ireland Occupational and reputation management, across a range of sectors Health team and leads Charlene joined BIG including the drinks industry, on the development and Partnership 10 years ago financial services, public health, delivery of their Wellbeing following a 14-year career in further education, sport and programme. She is also a journalism, which spanned leisure both in the UK and in passionate member of the both print and broadcast. She France. #INC Employee Resource has worked with clients in a Carolyn and her team have Group, working to ensure that wide range of sectors, including a remit to support managers their wellbeing and inclusion property and construction, and colleagues through all activities are closely connected professional services, and the events and situations during in support of Diageo’s drinks industry. the employment lifecycle. The ambition towards building the HR team portfolio ranges from most inclusive culture. workforce planning, recruitment, learning and development, to championing equality and diversity within the workplace, and promoting health, safety and wellbeing.

13 Panel Members MAINTAINING MOMENTUM AND KEEPING INCLUSION AT THE HEART OF OUR DECISION MAKING PANEL DISCUSSION

MIKE DOUGLAS COLIN MacFARLANE TRESSA BURKE Director – Social Enterprises, Director, Stonewall Scotland Chief Executive Officer, Age Scotland Glasgow Disability Alliance Colin joined Stonewall as Mike joined Age Scotland the Director of Stonewall One of GDA’s founder in 2012 as the independent Scotland in 2011. He leads the members, Tressa has been CEO Chair of the charity’s Social operational management, policy, since 2006, steering GDA from Enterprise Board and then research, campaigning and its fledgling vision of supporting took on his current role as a social change work of Stonewall disabled people’s voices and member of staff in February Scotland and in this role has tackling social isolation in 2001, 2018. He is proud of how Age led a transformation in the to the multi-award-winning Scotland positively impact the organisation’s public and political community of 5000+ it is today. lives of older people across profile, organisational structure For over 25 years, Tressa has Scotland. and financial sustainability. held senior leadership roles He is now responsible for the As Director, Colin has in third and public sector social enterprises within Age driven sustained growth organisations developing people Scotland which deliver much and confidence in Stonewall led programmes which build on needed services to older Scotland’s innovative Diversity disabled people’s strengths and people while reinvesting any Champions workplace increase capacity to participate profits back into the charity, programme to drive and contribute to their own such as age-inclusion in the culture change with regard lives, communities and wider workplace. equalities and human rights in society. This has never been organisations across the public, more so than during COVID third and private sector. when GDA has acted as a Lifeline to thousands of disabled people. 14 With 20 years’ experience under our belt, we know the Scottish recruitment market inside out. On average over 500,000 Scottish jobseekers a month visit s1jobs, making us the go-to jobsite for the nation’s best and brightest candidates.

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Mission: Possible Panel Members RACE EQUALITY - MAKING ASPIRATIONS A REALITY PANEL DISCUSSION

ENOCH ADEYEMI ANEELA McKENNA MHAIRI TAYLOR Founder & CEO, Diversity, Wellbeing & Head of Equality, Diversity and Black Professionals Scotland Inclusion Manager, Inclusion, University of Glasgow Scottish Parliament Enoch Adeyemi is a Chartered Mhairi advocates and strives Certified Accountant and Aneela has worked in a variety for inclusion for all. Her the Founder & CEO of Black of public and private sector employment and board Professionals Scotland which is diversity and inclusion roles experiences are within the an organisation established to for over 20 years. She splits public and third sector, and support Black Ethnic Minorities her time between working promote access, inclusion, in Scotland. as a Diversity and Inclusion and creativity. Mhairi has a Enoch is also the founder consultant, supporting demonstrable experience of Bagafa – an e-commerce businesses with developing of strategic delivery, policy platform which sells Afro- their policies on diversity, and development and community Caribbean products from is also the Scottish Parliament’s engagement across fashion to health & beauty to Diversity, Wellbeing and communities, but focussed arts etc. Inclusion Manager on a part- within higher education. He is also a co-founder of time basis. VisitNigeriaNow which is the premier domestic tourism brand in Nigeria.

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