Here Are Our Day 2 – Keynote Speakers

Hannah Awonuga

Founder & CEO, The Inclusive Foundations Programme | 2025 Top
10 Inclusion Expert | Cultural Transformation & Inclusion Consultant

Hannah Awonuga is the Founder & CEO of The Inclusive Foundations Programme. A pioneering culture consultancy helping high-growth companies fix the cultures their people are surviving in.

After two decades leading cultural transformation across global banking and real estate, Hannah saw first-hand how exclusion silently drains innovation, retention, and revenue.

Today, she’s redefining inclusion as a strategic growth driver turning people challenges into commercial advantage, one foundation at a time.

Hannah Awonuga is an award-winning cultural inclusion leader, named in the 2025 Top 20 DEI Expert in the UK, with over 20 years of corporate experience.

With senior roles held at Knight Frank as Group Head of DEI, NED for Progress Together, a member of the Grants and Impact committee on the board of Land Aid and as Global DEI Director at Barclays, where she held a 17-year-long career, Hannah brings deep expertise in aligning culture and inclusion with leadership and business strategy at scale.

Known for her strategic influence and ability to shift thinking at the top, Hannah has built an extensive global network of over 80,000 professionals on LinkedIn and is frequently called upon to advise leaders navigating complex cultural challenges and leadership development strategies.

A passionate advocate for socioeconomic inclusion, organisational culture and engagement, she draws on her experience to challenge systems and unlock new possibilities for equity and representation.

Hannah has been recognised as one of HR Magazine’s Top 25 Most Influential DEI Practitioners.

With a reputation for authenticity, strategic clarity, and creating safe yet stretching spaces for executive dialogue, Hannah is a sought-after keynote speaker, facilitator, and trusted voice in the future of inclusive leadership

Aggie Yemurai Mutuma, FCIPD

CEO and Founder of Mahogany Inclusion Partners

Aggie Yemurai Mutuma, FCIPD, CEO and Founder of Mahogany Inclusion Partners, is a multi-award-winning Inclusion and Anti-Racism expert, Executive Coach, and globally recognised thought leader.

With over 25 years of progressive leadership spanning FTSE 100, public sector, humanitarian, and growth organisations, Aggie combines governance expertise, executive coaching, and people strategy mastery to architect inclusive, high-performing cultures aligned with organisational mission and values.

Ranked in the top 20 of HR’s Most Influential Thinkers List UK (2022, 2024, 2025) and recognised through multiple industry accolades, including Global 100 Women in Leadership Winner (2024) and Top 100 African Business Leaders in the UK (2023 and 2025), Aggie is trusted by boards and C-suites to provide candid, compassionate challenge on strategic people matters, compliance, succession planning, and cultural transformation.

As Advisory Board Member for The Women’s Institute (UK’s largest women’s organisation with 190,000 members) and a trusted advisor to the CIPD, CBI, and government bodies, Aggie demonstrates sustained commitment to systemic change.

Her unique ability to create judgment-free spaces empowers leaders to align their actions with core values, delivering measurable commercial and cultural outcomes—reducing attrition, enhancing engagement, and building diverse leadership pipelines.

Through executive coaching, strategic consulting, board advisory work, and thought leadership, Aggie continues to catalyse meaningful transformation where authenticity, accountability, and belonging drive sustainable, high-performing cultures.

Simi Daniel

Founder And Creator Of Nourish Edit By Simi

Simi Daniel is the founder and creator of Nourish Edit by Simi, a wellness brand rooted in the belief that healthy living doesn’t have to be complicated.

She is passionate about simple, nourishing food, gentle movement, and realistic everyday habits that support busy women and their families.

Through her work, Simi shares her love for homemade, wholesome snacks, practical nutrition tips, and beginner-friendly approaches to staying active — all designed to fit into real life.

Her approach is centred on balance over perfection, helping women feel confident in their food and lifestyle choices without guilt, restriction, or pressure.

She believes that small, consistent changes — whether in the kitchen or through movement — can make a meaningful difference, and that feeling good should always come from a place of nourishment, not rules.

Fiona Daniel

Founder Archangelica

Fiona Daniel is a leadership, systems, and performance strategist and founder of Archangelica, a practice that helps organisations align the human and systems sides of work to create sustainable business results.

With a background spanning leadership, organisational culture and inclusion within global financial services, Fiona is known for translating complex challenges into clear, practical action.

Her work focuses on the conditions that shape experience and outcomes, from recruitment, progression, and leadership behaviour to trust, belonging, decision-making, customer experience, and performance.

A dynamic and thought-provoking speaker, Fiona brings lived experience, strategic insight and real-world practicality to conversations on modern leadership, inclusion, organisational effectiveness and culture change.

She is particularly recognised for helping leaders move beyond good intentions to create sustainable outcomes through better design, better decisions and better everyday leadership.

She also serves in Non-Executive and Trustee roles, bringing current board-level insight into governance, leadership and organisational decision-making.

Today, Fiona works with private, public and third-sector organisations on leadership effectiveness, inclusion, culture and organisational systems, helping leaders move beyond activity to create meaningful outcomes that people experience and that organisations can sustain.

Lou Chiu

People and Development Consultant, Atkinson HR

Lou is a People and Development Consultant with over seven years of experience in coaching and consultancy and specialises in anti-oppressive and trauma-informed practices at Atkinson HR and in her own practice.

Before that, she predominantly worked in the education and charity sectors, including serving as a Chair of the Board for an education-based membership charity.

Lou holds a Masters in Coaching and Mentoring Practices, which she uses to support those from historically marginalised communities and their allies.

Her expertise lies in fostering safer, purpose-driven environments by equipping individuals and teams with the awareness and skills to have meaningful conversations about identity, relationships, and inclusion.

Her pragmatic yet compassionate approach encourages organisations to build healthier, kinder workplaces that celebrate diversity and promote equality and equity.

Through lived experiences and academic curiosity, Lou has delivered keynotes, facilitated training and published articles on facilitating safer, inclusive spaces for open, honest conversations with people from marginalised communities.

Her coaching practice is built on curiosity, compassion and courage and aims to enable people to unpick some of the complexity in their lives, enabling them to find more joy and purpose.

Playfulness is important part of Lou’s practice and personal life – finding moments of reprieve in those harder times. As such, she is also an unapologetic geek, generalist gamer and collector of hobbies.

Dr Jadvinder Sidhu

Distinguished Enterprise Architect, Senior Director, Oracle Consulting

Having worked for Oracle for the last 30 years Jadvinder has worked closely with Customers deploying Oracle technology to achieve successful business outcomes.

Jadvinder’s emphasis is on using technology as an enabler to improve the wider business, more recently with the use of AI.

During his career in Oracle he has worked on large complex applications and technology implementations. He currently works as lead Enterprise Architect for UK Consulting on complex cloud implementations, presently with Met Police and the UK Government, and more recently with Very Group, Petrofac, Tesco, HSBC and RBS.

Spending the vast majority of his 30 years in Oracle working on Customer site has given great insight into how Customers perceive technology and how to get the best from it.

Working with Customers to drive them to success is the most rewarding and challenging part of his role.

Inside Oracle he was a founder member and now advisor to the Cultural Harmony Network ERG.

Jadvinder holds a Ph.D. in AI.