Michelle Raymond is an Emerging Leadership Coach, Trainer, Master NLP Practitioner and award-winning TEDx Speaker on a mission to make the inVisible Visible!
She is the Founder of the training consultancy, The People's Partner, specialising in building a diverse and inclusive leadership and supplier pipeline in order to reduce organisational risk. She runs a thriving community of entrepreneurs who wish to secure corporates contracts as well as providing leadership services to companies in both the UK and UAE.
Currently lead facilitator of UCL’s Emerging Leadership Programme and Executive Coach to UCL’s senior female faculty leaders, Michelle’s two decades of HR management have spearheaded her diverse skills in leadership development.
Michelle has delivered training for Amazon, BT, Deloittes and the Ministry of Justice. She is a board member of Lloyds Bank Black Business Advisory Group and has been featured on the BBC and SKY, People Management, Good Housekeeping, Business Insider and Hays Journal.
Michelle is the brains behind the Diverse Supplier Visibility Summit and is a Certified Diverse Supplier.
Lynn Erasmus is a Third Culture Individual, and a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, journalist & speaker, shifting the audience from a place of fear to curiosity. She connects leaders and management with their teams, by helping them understand their core values, vision and team strengths and then bringing them together to achieve their shared goals through Cultural IQ. She delivers these outcomes through interactive keynotes, fun away days, focused masterclasses & training, and in-depth coaching sessions. As the Founder of SYMBL CIC, she is a fierce advocate for Inclusivity, Diversity, Equality and Belonging, where she helps companies to adapt their company culture to become innovative and sustainable global leaders.