Session: How To Engage and Recruit Male Allies
Women in Tech still face significant barriers, and with some tech leaders currently attacking DEI, it's a challenging time to be a minority in the industry.
However, advancing gender equity something that benefits everyone, and inspiring and recruiting male allies to advocate for change is an important part of coming together to collaborate and unite.
In this talk, Lee Chambers shares how he moved from a typical tech founder bloke to a renowned male ally, his latest research on the barriers to effective allyship, and how to get men involved in engaging in effective allyship.
Bio
Lee Chambers is the Chief Psychologist and Director at Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing and Male Allies UK.
After a diverse career in corporate finance, local government and elite sports, and building a video game business, he launched Essentialise in 2020 with a desire to bring a focus on inclusive and accessible wellbeing, featuring on this year’s Startups 100 Index for their work. He is on the board of CMI Women and Age Concern CL, and was inducted into the Black Cultural Archives Future 40 in 2022.
He has been recognised for his work on allyship and equity by the UN and is the first Black British scientist to receive the Kavli Fellowship from the National Academy of Sciences. He has taken the stage at the Bloomberg Global Equality Summit and One Young World. He is the author of upcoming titles the Millennials Guide to Wellness and Momentum: Reboot Your Career, and is a global speaker on male allyship and menopause.