BIO

Julian is a leading diversity and inclusion expert and international keynote speaker. He has addressed and trained hundreds of business executives on topics such as race fluency, active allyship, and inclusive leadership. At leading organisations, including a ‘Big-4’ accounting firm, a FTSE 100 banking group, a multinational telecoms company, as well as various SMEs and start-ups.

He is the Managing Director of extense – an inclusion consultancy; D&I training provider; and diverse headhunting solution. In 2021, he was appointed to the government commissioned Taskforce to boost socio-economic diversity across UK Financial and Professional Services; set up by HM Treasury and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He is responsible for designing and delivering workstream outputs alongside senior leaders from the Bank of England, BlackRock, EY, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, KPMG, Morgan Stanley and PwC.

Julian leverages years of experience in senior talent acquisition and people strategy, to complement his personal background as a first-generation graduate and a resilient product of social mobility. His talks navigate difficult to discuss diversity themes and empower audience members to improve their confidence and competence when discussing race and ethnicity, together with actionable frameworks to uphold anti-racism.

Julian’s professional journey is impactful. His lived experience and subject matter expertise combine to help audiences to understand the importance of cultivating an inclusive company culture. Specifically, a culture and work climate that draws upon identity-related knowledge and demographic diversity as resources for reconceiving how to perform core work better and achieve sustainable business performance. Julian’s bespoke keynotes cover the fundamentals of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging and are relevant to organisations at any stage of their inclusion journey.

Currently, Julian is working with several leading companies to help attract, retain and progress underrepresented talent. Julian previously led C-suite headhunting mandates for a #1 Executive Grapevine ranked global Executive Search firm. He is also a law graduate and former professional athlete. Julian represented Great Britain & England internationally, at elite level in the sprint hurdles event.

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