Join our webinar: Getting the Best from Board Performance Reviews
Date: Wednesday 3 September 2025
Time: 14:00 – 15:00 including Q&A
Webinar login details will be provided following booking.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Free
Join us for a webinar focused on Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, a crucial pillar of responsible governance and a natural extension of our work on ESG. Building on the success of our previous sessions, this event will explore practical steps to foster inclusive workplaces, recent regulatory developments, and why EDI matters for small and mid-cap quoted companies.
We’re pleased to welcome guest speakers Simon Fanshawe OBE, Diversity by Design and Nina Nuzi, Ocorian, who will share their insights and experiences on driving meaningful change through effective EDI strategies.
Event Details
Date: 3 September, 2025
Start time: 14:00 BST
End time: 15:00 BST
Venue: Online
Phone: +44 (0)20 7600 3745
Email: mail@theqca.com
Simon Fanshawe OBE, Diversity by Design
Simone Fanshawe OBE is a diversity consultant, broadcaster and author. He is the co-founder of the leading consultancy Diversity by Design. He and his colleague Rachel Cashman have the top ten business podcast “Fearless Diversity”.
He is currently on the Board of Powerful Women, is Chairman of Hexagon Housing Association and the current Rector of Edinburgh University.
He was previously Chairman of Sussex University, a non-exec director of Housing & Care 21, a Governor of the Museum of London and on the Board of Brighton Dome & Festival.
He has grown and sold successfully two businesses. He was one of the six co-founders in 1989 of the lesbian and gay equality campaign Stonewall – a key influencer in the strategy to create legal equality for lesbians and gays, which was completed by the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act in 2014.
His latest book “The Power of Difference” was published in December 2021 by Kogan Page. It is the Chartered Institute Management’s Book of 2023. He was voted the second Most Influential Thinker in 2022 by HR Magazine and inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2023.
He has long been involved in campaigns for equality and positive social change and has served on the Board of companies and organisations in the private and charity sectors for over thirty-five years.
In 2024 he co-authored (with Matilda Gosling) the report “Flying Flags and Ticking Boxes. What Went Wrong With EDI. And How Leaders Can Fix It”
He was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to Higher Education and made an Honorary Doctor of the University of Sussex for services to diversity and human rights.
He lives in Brighton with his husband and they have neither children nor dogs. When not celebrating difference, he is cooking.
James Ashton, Chief Executive, QCA
James Ashton is Chief Executive of the Quoted Companies Alliance, the members’ organisation that champions small and mid-sized companies whose shares are publicly traded. James was City Editor and Executive Editor of the Evening Standard and Independent titles and before that City Editor of the Sunday Times. He is the author of several business books and chairs Oscar’s Book Prize, the annual search for the UK’s best picture book. James is also a non-executive director of Finsbury Growth & Income, the FTSE 250 investment trust.
