Charlotte Sweeney

Company Bio

Charlotte Sweeney Associates is a global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consultancy, launched in 2012.  During that time we’ve been busy leading change from the inside in businesses and organisations around the world.

We’ve been recognised as one of the top strategic DE&I consultancies with our founder, Charlotte Sweeney OBE named as one of HR’s Most Influential Thinkers.

We’ve worked in partnership with hundreds of companies and delivered thousands of hours of consultancy, leadership, and DE&I development. As a result, we continue to help millions of employees feel they can be themselves at work.

We champion professionalising the sector through thought leadership, mastery and partnership. We are in service of creating lasting impact with work that works.

Our team of consultants are motivated by being your critical friend, we get to the heart of the issue through the eyes of the client. We tailor our insights and activity for where you are now and where you want to get to.

With a combination of our thought leadership, mastery and true partnership, we inspire bravery.

Personal Bio

Charlotte is known as the ‘go-to’ expert when it comes to pushing the boundaries on creating more diverse and inclusive companies. She has specialised in large-scale change programmes with a focus on diversity, inclusion and equity for over 20 years. She works with companies and C-suite executives from many of the FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies around the world to drive inclusive leadership and cultural change.

Charlotte gained her executive experience in Blue Chip companies across the Financial Services sector (Barclays, Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) and Nomura International) before creating her own consultancy.

Charlotte is co-author of the book Inclusive Leadership, published by The Financial Times and shortlisted for Management Book of the Year 2018 by The Chartered Management Institute (CMI). She also writes regularly for professional publications and regularly hosts and chairs large conferences and virtual events.  Her keynote speeches, workshops and facilitated challenge sessions to senior leaders are regularly delivered around the world. She is an expert contributor for Radio, TV and Press.

Charlotte has studied with several Institutes including Møller Institute, Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, The Tavistock Institute, INSEAD and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, the Royal Society of the Arts, Professional Speaking Association and Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development. She is also a Chartered Management Consultant. She is a regular expert judge on a number of professional body awards such as the Management Consultancy Association.

Over the years Charlotte has won many awards, including from Harvard, for her work in the Diversity and Inclusion field and was acknowledged by TIAW for advancing the economic empowerment of women. In October 2015, she was recognised by The Economist as in the Top 50 Diversity Professionals in the world and in 2017, by The Daily Telegraph as one of the Top 10 D&I Consultancies in the world. In 2022 she was awarded a position on the HR’s Most Influential Thinkers UK List.

For more information please visit Charlotte Sweeney’s Website here