Member events
Our acclaimed member events are aligned with key awareness days, covering a broad range of topics essential to retaining and progressing your female talent. We host virtual monthly ‘Lunch and learn’ sessions, including Intersectional Insights and Meet the Expert events.
Events are only open to Encompass Equality members and can be booked using the registration buttons below. Find out more about benefits of membership on our membership page.
What’s on - Upcoming events
Lunch and Learn ‘Meet the expert’ session: Leveraging job sharing to boost female progression and retention
With Alix Ainsley and Charlotte Cherry, People Experience Director, Virgin
Monday 28 April 2025
12-1 pm (BST)
Virtual (on Zoom)
Alix Ainsley and Charlotte Cherry, a pioneering executive HR job-share, People Experience Director at Virgin, and co-founders of Daring Two Consulting, join us to explore how organisations can leverage job sharing to boost female progression and retention.
Member Peer Roundtable Lunch for HR and inclusion professionals
With Jane Oremosu, co-author of ‘My Little Black Book: A Blacktionary’
Wednesday 14 May 2025
12-2 pm (BST)
Kindly hosted by Leathwaite
Equitable House, 47 King William Street, London, EC4R 9AF
This lunch is for HR and inclusion professionals from our member organisations to share best-practice and make connections. We will be joined by Jane Oremosu, co-author of ‘My Little Black Book: A Blacktionary: The pocket guide to the language of race'. Jane will lead a discussion on the need to help people as they discuss difference, race and inclusion within the workplace. We will also explore how we can support leaders and managers who feel overwhelmed by ever-evolving definitions and phrases or the fear of saying the wrong thing.
Lunch and Learn ‘Intersectional Insights’ session: Social mobility
With Donna Kennedy, Head of People and Talent at The Barton Partnership
Tuesday 20 May
12-1 pm (BST)
Virtual (on Zoom)
Join us for our next 'Lunch and Learn' member event: an Intersectional Insights session on social mobility with Joy Burnford, CEO at Encompass Equality and Donna Kennedy, Head of People and Talent at The Barton Partnership. Donna joins us to talk about her own experiences and will share her top 5 tips for organisations on understanding social mobility through a gender lens.
Lunch and Learn: Moving the dial on gender equality
With Lisa Perkins, Director of HR, Wesleyan
Monday 23 June 2025
12-1 pm (BST)
Virtual (on Zoom)
Lisa Perkins, Director of HR at Wesleyan joins us to share how Wesleyan has improved female representation rates and implemented practical initiatives to address its gender gaps. Over the last 5 years this has included, the introduction of pay equity, targets embedded into Executive bonus, enhanced data capabilities driving more Senior Leadership accountability, mentoring and support for working parents.
Research Launch Event
Women in leadership: Strategies from organisations leading the way
Thursday 3 July 2025
6-9 pm (BST)
Kindly hosted by Reed Smith LLP, 1 Blossom Yard, London, E1 6RS
The first opportunity to hear the findings of our new research that reveals the practices, strategies, and leadership behaviours that have enabled a number of FTSE 350 organisations to make substantial progress in advancing female representation in leadership roles. The research has been conducted in collaboration with the FTSE Women Leaders Review, Chartered Management Institute, The Financial Times and Balance the Board, and is kindly sponsored by Grant Thornton UK, PGIM, Leathwaite and AlixPartners.
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