About Us

Anne-Marie is a passionate and energetic Diversity and Inclusion specialist with over 20 years’ experience in a variety of organisations and sectors. 

Anne-Marie has strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, is an excellent facilitator and coach with the ability to interpret complex organisational objectives into interactive and participative learning interventions. 

She has expertise in working with executive and senior leaders assisting them to recognise their responsibilities in creating inclusive organisational cultures. Anne-Marie has also presented at a number of national conferences on Inclusive Leadership. 

David is a respected and trusted Inclusion and Wellbeing Specialist who builds knowledge and confidence around Neurodiversity in the Workplace, LGBTQ+ Awareness and Allyship, Conscious Inclusion, Inclusive Leadership and Recruitment, Disability Confident Practice, and Inclusive Language and Accessible Communication. 

Originally a Special Educational Needs and Trauma Informed educator, David champions the right of every individual to achieve their fullest potential, both personally and professionally, so that they are not held back by the limiting labels imposed upon them by others.

David is the founder and coordinator of the award-winning international Give ‘em Hope Campaign; is a Marriage Equality Pioneer who successfully campaigned for a change in marriage legislation by taking a legal case to the European Court of Human Rights with Equal Love UK; and he is the Sexuality Lead for National Hate Crime Awareness Week.

Becki is EMBED's lead access auditor specialising in intersectional inclusive practice in the service provision, working practice and workforce. with over 20 years in heritage, culture and arts, she founded the Disability Collaborative Network CIC.

Becki has created working relationships across sectors and at all levels of the creative industries in relation to recruitment, retention, and development of inclusive practice. This has included practical, innovative thinking to connect for solution-based actions, develop strategy, raise awareness and confidence. 

Becki is a trained access auditor and also specialises in cross-profile neurodiversity.

Sarah is a learning and development specialist and a qualified coach and mentor who brings an infectious enthusiasm into her workshops and development interventions. She focuses on interpersonal skills training and supports internal coaches and mentors to continue their professional development.

Sarah has gained experience in the private sector, not-for-profit sector and most recently in Local Authority and uses this experience to listen, engage, advise, and deliver development tailored to the client needs.

Martin is an experienced leader in workplace inclusion and responsible business who created Majoyo Consulting to help clients to deliver significant and complex organisational changes in the workplace.  

Martin has provided coaching and consultation on legislative and regulatory requirements and introduced approaches to enhance employee engagement. Martin draws upon his experience in Business Analysis and Transformation to design and deliver positive organisational and cultural changes, including creating disability confident environments. 

Sarah is a qualified Executive and Team Coach and along with her values of curiosity, compassion and creativity, she adopts an empathic and intuitive approach in all of her work. 

This provides her with valuable insights into her clients and enables her to challenge them in an encouraging and supportive way, whilst also maintaining focus on their goals and objectives.    

Sarah's clients like working with her for her approachability, her honesty and her sense of humour. 

Amber is a registered mental health nurse with over 15 years’ experience in the mental health sector. She founded Headworks after many years of work with numerous patients who struggled to find or maintain employment, which lead to a growing interest in workplace mental health and Headworks’ mission to create more inclusive and supportive working environments. 

She has worked at a senior level across a range of settings, in both the NHS and private sector. Amber’s experience spans inpatient and community nursing, practice education, management, policy and strategy design and one-to-one patient consultation. In addition to her nursing qualification, Amber has a PGCert in Clinical Neuroscience and an MSc in Psychiatric Research. She also holds a specialist training and assessment qualification.  

Matt has 30 years experience at Transport for London with a speciality delivering accessible ‘Step Free’ stations from design to delivery. As the leader of a Disability network he has made various in-roads to other organisations and lobbied government for changes in legislation.

In the last three years, Matt encouraged TfL to adopt a working reasonable adjustment process; become a Disability Confident Employer; create a neurodiverse policy; help strategic planning in disability retention and particularly with Trades Unions, delivered operational readiness by working with all disciplines in ensuring stations are both accessible to customers and operable by staff.  Matt is a trained access auditor with an interest in the impact upon neurodiversities and is a member of the Handlebar club.

Casey is a research specialist in mixed qualitative and quantitative methodologies with over a decade of experience in audience research across North America and the UK. She has extensive knowledge of the inner workings of museums, having been the User Researcher at the British Museum, the Senior Manager: Data & Insight at the National Gallery and the Senior Manager: Audience Research and Insight at the V&A Museum. She founded The Creative Researcher in 2021 as a way to extend the reach of audience research practices to cultural organisations across the UK. Since founding the Creative Researcher, she has worked with clients such as Tate, the Museum of London, the British Council, and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. 

In her spare time, Casey is a professional Middle Eastern and Roma dancer. She has performed as a belly dancer with dance companies in Canada, America and London and specialises in Egyptian Folkloric dances. She performs and teaches Eastern European and Russian Roma dancing across the UK and Europe as part of Balarom, a Eastern European folkloric and Roma band. 

Beverley has worked for over 30 years in the areas of Leadership, Diversity

and Inclusion, Disabilities, Coaching and Personal Development. Beverley is a qualified Myer Briggs Type Indicator, Strengthscope and NLP, PTLLS practitioner. Also, Diploma in Neuro Linguistic Programming and ILM advisor and accessor for Level 4/5. She is currently studying Coaching and Mentoring for Executives, Level 7.

Beverley has worked in and with the Civil Service the Housing sector and

others, supporting them in meeting their Diversity and Inclusion strategies as a

consultant and coaching their managers and employees. Beverley has been running her own management consultancy practise for over 15 years, where her interest is to work with people to discover strategies to answer such questions as:

• How do I deal with impostor syndrome?

• How do I raise my profile?

• How to keep motivated?

• What does it take to get promoted within the culture of this organisation?

She uses various tools with her passion to listen, to provide you with the opportunity to focus on your strengths, achievements and moving to your next steps. Beverley believes it is important to lead by example in both her private and professional life to understand how having a growth mindset effects your performance. Beverley enjoys working and supporting individual in the neurominorities to focus on their strengths and embrace their gift of thinking differently, just like fruits all have their unique and distinct taste.

Beverley enjoys travelling and delights in supporting you on your journey to THRIVE and INSPIRE others. Take the first step and find how it tastes to find

your hidden strength.

Vanessa is an inclusive communication and marketing expert with over 25 years’ experience in helping organisations to employ, welcome, serve and represent diverse communities.    

Working with multi-function marketing, product and communication teams and one-person marketers, she has helped to develop brands, strategies, policies, products, services, websites and campaigns that convey an authentic commitment to diversity and inclusion. Vanessa is proud to have worked for some of the UK's leading experts in developing disability confident business.