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 ‘Intersectional Insights’ session: Social mobility
With Donna Kennedy, Head of People and Talent at The Barton Partnership
Friday 6 June
11 am -12 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.
Member Peer Roundtable Lunch for HR and inclusion professionals
Date TBC - September 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.
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