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Specialisms to comment on:

DE&I: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Psychological Safety, Inclusive Leadership

Disability: Lived experience of disability, living with my chronic illness “Arthur”.

Equity and Equality: Creating a more equitable and fairer workforce/society.

Recruitment: How to recruit diverse talent pools, how to recruit disabled talent. How to create sustainable recruitment ecosystems. Inclusive and accessible recruitment best practice.

Female Entrepreneur: Being your own boss. Creating your own brand and business. Highs and lows of entrepreneurship.

Mindset: Juggling, my “Why” is my superpower!

Infertility: IVF.

Working Mum: Mother to twins, two cats and female entrepreneur.

Corporate Speaker | Key Notes

Looking for an exceptional keynote speaker who will captivate and inspire your audience to contribute to a more sustainable and inclusive society?

Look no further than Keynote speaker Cressida Stephenson, aka “The Inclusive Recruiter” who has 27 years’ experience in international recruitment and search and a female entrepreneur.

She is a passionate DE&I inclusive search specialist and helps clients transform by unlocking the secrets to inclusive hiring to create diverse workforces.

Her Key Notes will help deliver against your “Triple Bottom Line” of People, Planet and Prosperity, building a sustainable future which will unlock opportunities for growth and enhance your corporate reputation. But be warned she is a straight shooter and can spot DE&I tokenism a mile off!

She will help you build the foundations to become a truly inclusive employer and reimagine the workforce through the lens of sustainability and inclusion, and the great news is it’s easier than you think to get started!

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to have Cressida Stephenson inspire and motivate your audience with her energy, passion and expertise.

Why you should book Cressida Stephenson for your next event?

• Cressida is an incredibly relatable and powerful speaker. She uses her humour and vulnerability to delve into her personal and professional journey, unveiling the transformative power embedded within her story and experiences.
• Cressida is an expert in the field of DE&I in Human Capital, Talent, Recruitment and unlocks the secrets of inclusive hiring for her clients.
• Cressida is on a mission to help clients become more inclusive employers and shares how organisations can create sustainable recruitment ecosystems to future proof their resilience, growth and success.

As a speaker, facilitator and trainer with a background in modern languages and finance and nearly three decades experience in international recruitment and search, Cressida specialises in working with companies to unlock the secrets to inclusive hiring, by dismantling outdated recruitment practices and reimagining the workforce to adopt a skills-first approach and democratise opportunity for all. She is on a mission to create greater equity and equality in the workplace and specialises in working with companies in male dominated industries including banking, financial services and tech to move the needle for greater diversity in all its forms.

She is a passionate disability advocate and ally  and through her lived experience of disability,  helps clients transform their recruitment and hiring processes from application through to onboarding, to be as inclusive and accessible as possible and helping clients reach the 20% of disabled talent in the UK workforce.

She encourages her clients to think longer term about creating sustainable recruitment ecosystems and stand this up as a tower of their ESG strategy, so that clients can recruit, retain and develop the best talent in the market place with a real focus on intersectionality and amplifying the representation of women in their workforce.

Cressida ticks many diversity boxes herself that provide her with extensive lived experience of being different: She is a disabled, neurodivergent, female entrepreneur and working mother of teenage twins. Her resilience and mindset are the foundations of her success as she lives with a progressively worsening auto immune disease.

Cressida is an engaging, compassionate and straight shooting individual. She cares deeply about making and being the difference and passionately believes in the collective power and duty that lies in front of us all, to create a better, kinder, more inclusive world within which our children can thrive. She uses her experience, with data based research and frameworks, to make the connection with her audience and have instant impact, so her audience comes away with actionable insights to make change and move the conversation forwards within their organisations.

Keynotes with Cressida Stephenson:

1. The Inescapable Truth About Every Company’s ESG Strategy and Why Embracing Sustainable Recruitment Ecosystems is No Longer a Choice But is a Necessity to Remain Competitive and Thrive.
2. Unveiling the Invisible: The Overlooked 20% of Disabled Talent and How to Recruit Them.
3. So You Think You are an Inclusive Employer? The Do’s and Don’ts of Inclusive Hiring Best Practice.
4. How to Turn Your Why into Your Very Own Superpower!

For an initial chat or to book me as a speaker for your event please contact me here.