Lola is an experienced product professional, she works with organisations to shape and build customer-centric products.

She is passionate about the empowerment of girls, women and the future of work which led her to found thinkHER ambition in 2018. This is a social enterprise that focuses on reimagining mentoring for young women and corporate organisations.

Lola believes that mentoring should be a need and not a want as it provides access and awareness to opportunities whilst increasing social capital and self confidence.

Lola is a G20 youth delegate (2020) and is the recipient of Yahoo Finance Future Female award, Financial Times top 50 inspirational Ethnic Minority Future Leaders and is a One Young World Ambassador.

Lola has had experience in studying and volunteering in China.

Her prior involvement includes serving as a Youth Advisor for LifeSkills by Barclays and Mayor of London’s Digital Pioneer.

Katherine is a campaigns strategist advising some of the biggest and most high profile social justice and women’s rights campaigns in the UK. As founding Campaigns Director at Change.org UK, Katherine delivered multiple winning campaigns driving growth for the now world’s largest petition site and biggest activism platform in the UK. For the past two years Katherine has worked with Grenfell United providing strategic campaigns advice to ensure that the survivors and bereaved families of the Grenfell Tower fire. As one of the people that set up Change.org in the UK, Katherine grew and led a high performing campaigns team through a period of rapid growth, delivering over three campaigns wins a week including putting a woman on a banknote, No Page 3 and changing the law for 16 year olds in police custody. Katherine has worked with and advised leading international purpose driven organisations and global activists alike, including the ONE Campaign, Virgin Unite and Nobel prize nominee Jaha Durereh.

Chantal is a filmmaker and broadcast journalist by trade with a passion for social and creative entrepreneurship. In addition to her community-building work at , she is also the founder of - a non-profit initiative celebrating women of Caribbean heritage.
She is a producer/presenter (radio and podcasts), much sought after voice-over artist,certified Creative Healing Practitioner and has an intense passion for Caribbean films. Most recently she has facilitated workshops with Spotify’s Sound Up Podcast Bootcamp as well as partnering with Brixton’s’ Ritzy Cinema to curate the opening night screening and post-screening event for Inna De Yard.
Chantal has built an eclectic network of story stellers, wellbeing practitioners and gifted creatives. Nominated for the Precious Awards and the BATON Awards for her work with Island Girls Rock, she has also worked with MIA on her Southbank Meltdown takeover (hosting the Caribbean Carnival mainstage), the BBC on their Fierce Women Seriesfeaturing Rihanna and curated workshops as part of the Windrush Day Festival at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre.
She runs digital storytelling workshops for young people and is regularly commissioned to speak on matters related to creative entrepreneurship, wellness and the power of digital storytelling. She has curated exhibitions and panel discussion series related to these themes with the most recent being 'Back Home' where she collaborated with Gabrielle Smith of The Nu Black and Through Our Eyes a photography-focused week of panel discussions and exhibitions exploring Caribbean representation in mainstream media (PhotoFusion UK).Chantal got her start in radio (in Nevis) during Hurricane Hugo in 1989. She had interviewed for an internship and was due to start the following Summer, but the day after the hurricane, the station manager asked her to come back to the station to send out an SOS to the US Military. She was only 15, but it worked.
Chantal is a daydreamer who gets s%&t done.

Jess Mally is a London based antiracism workshop facilitator, writer, speaker, podcast host, creative and events producer, consultant and more.
 
With a passion for Social Change, Mental Health, the Arts and Spirituality she hopes to use any and all means available to her, to tell stories that shape a better world.
 
She is the co-founder of BELOVD Agency. BELOVD is a DEI consultancy working for the advancement of all intersections of humanity in the workplace and places of education.
 
As a third culture kid and growing up as one of the only Black kids in her world, she has always been passionate about racial equality, equity, justice and a better future for all.
 
After studying political science and sociology in Germany for a while, she chose to change paths and moved to the UK where she worked as a creative and events producer, curator and consultant in the charitable sector for 7 years.
 
Today, aside from running BELOVD alongside her business partner Marvyn Harrison, Jess works as a writer for various publications, consults and curates events for organisations aligned with her values, runs workshops, co-hosts a podcast called The Third Way Podcast and is actively involved in advancing the interests of the Black Community in the UK and worldwide.

As founding director of Foundervine, Izzy leads a training consultancy that provides founders with access to training, mentoring and funding opportunities. Since 2018, 2,000 young people have been skilled by Foundervine programmes, $230,000+ raised with 62% female participation. She is an experienced public speaker and has helped people grow at global brands such as Just Eat, Facebook, PwC, Google, AirBnB and more.
Izzy is a Non-Executive Director for Capital Enterprise, a body that has raised £814.7m for UK startups and a former trustee for Parkrun. Izzy has been featured in the BBC, The Telegraph, The Times, TEDx and in 2019 was named by Tech Nation as one of the 50 most influential black voices in UK tech. She now divides her time between the UK and West Africa, delivering start-up and scale-up acceleration programmes designed to transform the digital innovation ecosystem.

Sandra is the National Campaign Director for Business in the Community’s Race Equality campaign, a business led network of organisations from the private and public sector working and committed to race equality as part of their good business practice.  Sandra works together with the Business in the Community Race Equality board to set the agenda for race diversity in the UK as a business imperative.
Sandra strongly believes there is a need for wider business engagement to promote best practice for recruiting and developing ethnic minority individuals, marketing to ethnic minority people as profitable consumers, including diverse communities within Responsible Business action and including ethnic minority businesses and entrepreneurs in supply chains and networks. Sandra is particularly passionate about inclusive leaders and raising the profile of senior role models from diverse backgrounds to inspire the next generation and creating an inclusive environment through mentoring and sponsorship.
Before joining the Business in the Community race equality campaign (formerly Race for Opportunity) Sandra worked in the Cabinet Office advising on diversity and policies on race, disability, gender, and work life balance across Whitehall.  Sandra has also managed very large teams in a frontline delivery role and also spent some years as a personal development and IT skills trainer.
In January 2012, Sandra was awarded an OBE in the Queens New Year’s honours list for services to Black and Minority Ethnic People.

Siân Prime is Enterprise, and Deputy Director for Goldsmiths’ Institute for Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE). She introduced Entrepreneurship Education at Goldsmiths. Director of the MA Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship and has worked with Adrian De La Court to develop Synapse, a service that is available to all students (and staff) at Goldsmiths, and develops entrepreneurial thinking and potential. Co-Investigator in to new digital business models and online audience development approaches with Coney and the Department of Computing.
A key member of the original Creative Pioneer Team at Nesta and was responsible for the content and delivery of Nesta’s residential enterprise development programme for highly talented graduates to found innovative businesses. Gaining insights in to the difficulties that recent graduates experienced in developing their creative and critical thinking in to entrepreneurial activity. Co-ran a £15million seed fund for Nesta to support the Creative Industries.
Developed material with the rest of the Creative Pioneer team for Nesta’s Creative Business toolkit and trained a number of trainers who continue to develop and deliver the work under a Creative Commons licence globally.
A focus on innovation, both ideation and implementation. Skilled as a trainer, facilitator, coach and consultant. Siân has worked internationally, nationally for the Arts Council England, the Cultural Enterprise Office, Scotland and Comic Relief’s Tech for Good programme, delivering business advice, training and coaching for social innovation start-ups, creative individuals and designing appropriate strategies for value creation and policy to support the development of entrepreneurial activity.

Elizabeth Bledge is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at efitter, a fashion-tech aiming to solve the problem of sizing for millennial women. With a background in SaaS consultancy, she is responsible for product and operational development and co-hosts The FIT, the UK’s first podcast covering all things fashion, innovation, and technology. By day, she works in digital content production and manages digital projects from ideation to launch. By night, you may find her upside down on a pole to stay fit and unwind. You can find her on Instagram @bleggy and keep up to date with efitter at @efitterapp.

Tito Odusanwo is an International development professional and change-maker, passionate about transformative programs in the context of women and girls, youth development and Women's Economic Empowerment.Impassioned advocate, driven by accelerating progress towards the achievement of the SDGs. Strong supporter for the synergy between development aid agencies, academia, the private sector and supranationals agencies, for the attainment of the greatest social impact.
Experiences surround international Women's Economic Empowerment, FGM policy consultancy, SDG programs and advocacy, consultancy, project management, operations and campaigning.