Dawn Butler MP | Dawn Butler MP is a Labour Party politician first elected as the MP for Brent South in 2005 – and has been in frontline politics for the past two decades. Dawn made history as the first and so far only elected black female government minister serving in a Labour government. She was Minister in the cabinet office under Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Shadow Secretary of State for Women & Equalities under Jeremy Corbyn. Dawn continues to commit her time in Parliament to representing groups and people in society that are often underrepresented. Dawn has been awarded three times by the Patchwork Foundation having been voted the People's Choice 2016 Labour MP of the Year Award, Overall MP of the Year Award 2017, and Labour MP of the Year Award 2020. Dawn was voted into The Vogue 25 – the top 25 most influential women of 2020 and has been awarded a blue plaque in her honour. In August 2023, Dawn released her book ‘A Purposeful Life’.

Sonia Brown MBE | Sonia Brown MBE is a distinguished market access advisor, with a solid track record as an award-winning business communicator, uber networker, coach, trainer, prolific writer and a trailblazer in the realm of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I). Sonia boasts an impressive two-decade-long career in marketing, branding and essential life skills development. Sonia's fervor extends to championing women in enterprise and spearheading the DE&I agenda. Her illustrious journey includes founding the National Black Women's Network (NBWN) in 1999; pioneering initiatives such as Let's Talk Business, Inspirational Women's Super-Summit, Connected Women Business Panels, iCAN (Community Ambassador Programme) and EVOLVE – a comprehensive six-step business growth and membership programme tailored for solo and micro entrepreneurs. Sonia Brown's accolades are plentiful, including her inclusion among the Top 50 diversity figures in public life on the prestigious Economist Global List and her recognition as the World of Difference 100 Award Recipient by the International Alliance for Women (TIAW), in honor of her contribution to the economic empowerment of women; BBi UK Honorary Woman Business Leader of the Year and Global and Punjabi Society Award to name a few. She also makes valuable contributions to radio shows, podcasts magazines, and newspapers, engaging in discussions on the women, DE&I and enterprise agenda. You can contact her @soniatalks

Tobi Oredein | Tobi Oredein is the CEO and founder of Black Ballad, a media membership company for and by black women. Tobi spent over a decade in journalism, with her last journalism stint being at the BBC's writer's desk, before going full-time with Black Ballad in 2019. Tobi founded Black Ballad as a free access blog in 2014 to tell the stories of black women that have been routinely ignored by mainstream media. In 2017, she transitioned the site from a free blog to a membership platform. Through her leadership and vision over the past decade, Black Ballad has nearly 1,500 paying members, a global community of 100,000 black women, and in 2021, Black Ballad ran a successful equity community crowdfund that saw over 1,400 black women invest over £225,000. Tobi and Black Ballad have gained the trust of Black British women and the wider Black British community like no one else, which is further proved by the fact that they have collected over 25 million data points and counting about this audience since 2020. Furthermore, she has led the company to secure partnerships with Maltesers, Dove, Google and eBay, to name a few. Through her execution of Black Ballad, Tobi has secured spots on prominent lists that include Forbes Europe 30 Under 30 and the Evening Standard's list of the most influential people in London, all while juggling two children under four.

Ijeoma Chuku | Ijeoma Chuku is an undergraduate student at King’s Business School, studying the BSc in Business Management. Having been a KBS20 member and Student Leader since her first year of study, she now sits on the King’s Business School Advisory Council. She performed as a Marketing Associate and Head of Corporate Relations at the King’s Consulting and Financial Advisory society; and the Head of Marketing at Open Generation, a fundraising NGO focused on arts and culture. With a creative mind, she is passionate about fashion, film and television, and editorial industries. Being a graduate of the Enterprise Award from the Entrepreneurship Institute, she has an immense interest in innovation and sustainability. In January 2021, she founded a small sustainable fashion business, CHUKU, which currently upcycles and handmakes bags.Having completed a Finance Internship at fashion start-ups Khanh Brice Nguyen and KBN Knitwear, she applied her financial and academic knowledge to a real business. Working closely with the start-up’s Founder and Creative Director, Khanh. At the end of 2022, she completed and graduated from the Financial Times News School and performed alongside FT CEO John Ridding; Google’s Vice President in Marketing, Ben Malbon; and the creator of the Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning television show Ted Lasso, George Bryant. Here, she expanded her knowledge of the news and media industry, which complements her work as a Researcher, Writer, and Editor. Her written work has been submitted to Netflix for their online video essays, Nataal Media and Norman Rea Gallery.

Mimi Nwosu | A chance encounter whilst studying for another degree brought Mimi to a career in Civil Engineering. Mimi is now a multi-award-winning Civil Engineer who was named one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering in 2021 and currently is working at Heathrow Airport. Mimi has a particular interest in concrete technology and construction and during her career worked on several projects such as HS2, using her knowledge of concrete to contribute towards projects. Alongside Mimi's role as an engineer, she has taken part in many initiatives to promote a career in engineering with TV networks such as ITV (ITV Creates), Smithsonian Channel, and BBC most recently she took part in the CBeebies program 'What's in Your Bag' to promote a career in Civil Engineering for 4–7-year-olds, as well as partnering with high profile companies to create social media campaigns.

Professor Sally Everett | Professor Sally Everett is Vice Dean, Education, Deputy Dean (interim), and Professor of Business Education at King's Business School. She was appointed as the inaugural Professor of Business Education for King’s Business School in January 2019, and became the Vice Dean (Education) in September 2019. Professor Everett is also the academic lead for Inclusive Education at King’s College London. Previous to these roles, she was the Deputy Dean (Quality and Student Experience) for the Faculty of Business and Law at Anglia Ruskin University (2013 – 2018) where she also co-led the university’s Women’s Network and BME staff Network. Sally is a National Teaching Fellow (2017) and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) (2013). She was awarded these fellowships in recognition of her work championing pedagogic practice in areas including internationalisation, employability, and inclusive learning, teaching and assessment. She also led a team who won a Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence from Advance HE in 2016 for their student engagement work. Sally is the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the Committee of the Association of National Teaching Fellows (CANTF) and is an active member of the Equality and Diversity Committee for the Chartered Association of Business Schools.

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