Diversity Panel Zoom Masterclass - Thursday 6th August at 11am

Diversity Panel: Clive Myrie and Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon

Also this month

We are delighted to announce our next Speaker Taster Session. This time it will be a panel discussion looking at all the different aspects of diversity.

Chaired by the BBC's Clive Myrie, we will have a panel of experts looking at all the various angles of diversity, and how a diverse workforce, fully reflective of society, is not just good for inclusion, but can increase creativity and grow the bottomline.

Confirmed panelists include:

Dr Anne Marie Imafidon, co founder of STEMettes,  the award-winning social enterprise inspiring the next generation of females into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) roles.

Dave Birss - Works with companies to develop an ideas culture, and the core of his thinking is the need for diverse teams, both traditional - gender, race, sexuality of course - but also neuro, drawing on people's different experiences/approaches.

Dr Sophie Ward - Actor, author and LGBGT campaigner. Sophie has written a number of books, including A Marriage Proposal: The Importance of Equal Marriage and Love and Other Thought Experiments which has just been longlisted for the Booker prize.

Sanjeev Bhaskar - Renowned actor and writer, whose passionate about diversity. Sanjeev has a degree in marketing, and was even a graduate recruit at IBM before acting beckoned. He has been the Chancellor of Sussex University for the last 10 years.

Adam Pearson - Presenter, speaker and award-winning disability rights campaigner. He has been a panellist and speaker at the likes of the World Health Innovation Summit, One Young World Summit and British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy.

The session will be hosted on Zoom, with Clive presenting from our recently completed presentation studio in our London offices, with the panelists joining remotely. At the end of the session we will also provide a quick tour of the setup, and explain how it was acheived.

Simply email ask@performingartistes.co.uk for the dial in link.