HS4LC - Key Persons

Jodie Williams is an Equality, Inclusion and Diversity professional who has worked across various sectors with the aim of making businesses and services more accessible and inclusive. Jodie has created and executed diversity and inclusion programmes and strategies across TV and Radio, Engineering and Utilities, Transport and now automotive. Jodie the first Head of Diversity and Inclusion within the automotive retail sector in the country. In 2019 Jodie was listed in the top 100 Northern Power Women future list and was also shortlisted in the Head of Diversity category at The European Diversity Awards. Jodie is passionate about race equality and in 2020 created an online exhibition about White Privilege which was then turned into a book - A Definition of White Privilege, the feedback was phenomenal and has been used to really help people understand everyday examples of white privilege and how racial inequality can impact day to day lives.