Highly-rated Inclusive Leadership / EDI practitioner and communicator, working with Boards and senior leadership teams, specialising in unearthing and delivering learning, insights, trust, strategy, vision, data and action.Sam has been appointed by 30+ clients in the 3 years since establishing her own Inclusive Leadership / EDI practice, including Lloyds of London, the ECB (England & Wales Cricket Board), Nestle, RPC Law, Barclays, PwC, Cancer Research UK, RAPP Global and Pro Bono Economics, Prior to setting up her own business, Sam spent 15 years at Omnicom – a global leader in marketing communications. where she ultimately led 50+ businesses (creative, media, health, CRM, PR, branding, experiential) and their 9,000 employees from thinking of EDI as a tertiary issue to establishing it as a top-down strategic leadership priority, with subsequent actions that drove bottom-up trust, energy, voice and change. Sam’s parallel roles were Chief Marketing Officer Omnicom Media Group UK and Assistant Dean (global) of Omnicom University – Omnicom’s global Exec Education leadership programme in conjunction with Harvard Business School professors. Prior to joining Omnicom Sam spent 9 years as Marketing Director of Time Inc / Head of Marketing at ITV. In the distant past she cut her teeth at advertising agencies J. Walter Thompson and TBWA, leading client business such as Wonderbra in the ‘Hello Boys’ era.Sam is a sought-after speaker (EDI / leadership / resilience) and has spoken at 10, Downing Street, Council of Europe, The Oxford Union as well as being commissioned by businesss as far ranging as comparethemarket.com, Digital Cinema Media and Trowers & Hamlins (law).She is Trustee of global charity The Valuable 500 (changing the business world’s perception of disability) and local charity the Selsdon Centre for the Retired.In 2023 Sam took time out to educate herself on the broader Sustainability agenda via Cambridge University’s ‘Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership’ (CISL) COURSE and was awarded a Distinction (91%). Tutor feedback: ‘your assignments were quite exceptional’.My DMs are open!