26th October 2020
Inclusivity and equality
Tuesday 10th November
Highlighted speakers
Turning the Tables – Life lessons from young people who have been through hell
12:00 - 13:00
Kay Scorah
Founder – Have More Fun Ltd and Turning the Tables Conference
First a biochemist and then advertising account planner and head of planning at 2 London agencies in the 1970s and 80s, Kay founded communications and training consultancy HaveMoreFun Ltd in 1988. She specialises in cross cultural communication. In 2019 she started the Turning the Tables Conference, where young people who have been through hell (cancer patients, refugees, people with dyslexia and autism, transgender youth, ex-prisoners) teach us, the insiders, what their life experience has taught them. She is also an occasional standup comic and theatre performer.
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Inclusive Motorsport - Lessons from the first ever, female, ‘injured’ rally driver
12:00 - 13:00
Nathalie McGloin
FIA Commission President, Disabled Racing Driver
At 16 years old a drive back to school resulted in Nathalie becoming paralysed from the chest down after breaking her neck when the car she was in lost control and hit a tree. In 2015 Nathalie became the first women with a spinal cord injury to be granted a race licence in the UK; Nathalie races cars against able-bodied men and in 2019 she became the first ever female disabled rally driver.
“I love what I do and I’m grateful for my silver linings but I do live in hope of a cure.”
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We should talk more - The disconnect between agencies and diversity
14:00 - 15:00
Rich Miles
CEO & Founder
The Diversity Standards Collective
Rich Miles is CEO + Founder of The Diversity Standards Collective, an agency that consults, creates and checks for authenticity in all content that features or targets diverse communities. The DSC strives to help any agency, brand or publisher create work that never offends or misrepresents, something we see all too often in the advertising and marketing industry today. Rich created the first gender pronoun converter app, a tool that helps any business communicate properly with non-binary staff and clients, he is also part of OUTvertising, The Advertising and Marketing industry’s LGBTQI+ lobbying group.