Keynote SpeakersHayley Barnard is a keynote speaker specialising in Diversity & Inclusion, Unconscious Bias, and Effective Communication.
Hayley and her company have developed and delivered Diversity & Inclusion, Unconscious Bias and Effective Communication training and programmes for companies such as Asda, HSBC, Travis Perkins and Tesco.
Barnard is a compelling and engaging communicator, with work previously published in The Times and Hello!
As a communications expert, Hayley worked in internal and external business communications for over 17 years.
An expert in strategy development, communication planning and execution, her passion is helping to enhance inclusiveness and reduce inequality whilst bringing competitive advantage to organisations through the progression and delivery of innovative Diversity and Inclusion strategies.
In 2015, Hayley was a LeasePlan Women’s Arctic Challenge team member. Along with her sister Debra Searle MBE, Hayley, worked with LeasePlan to develop this expedition to convey the gender balance issue and challenge unconscious bias within their company.
Hayley Barnard Keynote Speaker:
An experienced Unconscious Bias speaker and Diversity and Inclusion trainer, Hayley tackles these topics with humour, ensuring her ideas have real value for audiences’ working lives.
Speaking topics include:
- Unconscious Bias / Implicit Bias – what it is and how to reduce its impact in the workplace.
- Inclusive Leadership – particularly practical tools like leading a meeting inclusively
- Inclusive Recruitment – reducing bias in shortlisting and interviewing.
- Gender Diversity – A prevalent topic, especially around International Women’s Day.
- Cultural Diversity – Leading culturally diverse teams.
- ESG: how D&I is part of the ESG agenda
- What is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
- Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
- The Business Case for DE&I
- DE&I and Governance
- Gender Equality at work
- Neuro-diversity in the workplace
Hayley’s presentations cover all types of diversity, including age, disability, ethnicity, gender, LGBTQ+, neurodiversity and diversity of thought.
Popular presentations include:
Biased – who me?
To enable employees to reach and understand their potential. A culture of inclusivity, which allows staff to be themselves at work, is essential. Yet why is that so hard?
Hayley uses stories and anecdotes to explain the science behind unconscious bias / implicit bias.
- What is unconscious bias?
- Why and how we are all biased.
- Positive and negative bias and its role in the workplace.
- How to recognise and overcome your own bias.
- How to be an inclusive manager/leader.
Inclusive Leadership:
Helping leaders adopt a more inclusive management style is essential to significant progress in diversity and inclusion.
Using inspiring ‘best practice’ stories and anecdotes, combined with the latest research, Hayley will cover:
- How D&I can help drive business results
- How D&I can be a crucial driver of one’s leadership style.
- What does inclusive leadership look like?
- How you can shape, take control of, and be a role model for your organisation’s D&I strategy.
- How to hold yourself and others accountable to meet diversity goals.
- The value of ‘difference.’
The Science of Female Corporate Promotion:
With the possibility of female board-member quotas being enforced on businesses, companies increasingly have to work hard to ensure they have a channel of women to the senior level.
In this presentation, Hayley explains what we know about what helps women get to board level and how organisations and women can shape this within their career plans.
- Gender Balance – a critical business issue.
- Inclusive Leadership
- Stemming the leaky pipeline
- The differences between male and female employee motivation and attitudes to promotion.
- Highlighting best practices and women at the top.
