Baroness Ruth Hunt.
Baroness Ruth Hunt is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords, and former CEO of Stonewall.
As a crossbench peer in the House of Lords, Ruth focuses on human rights and contributes more broadly to the work of the House. She also serves as a member of the United Kingdom delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, with a particular focus on youth, democracy, and sport. Ruth was introduced to the Lords in 2019, following five years as Chief Executive of Stonewall, the LGBT+ charity.
Alongside her parliamentary work, Ruth is Director of Deeds and Words, a consultancy that supports organisations of all sizes in developing culture, leadership, and values based change. She is also a trustee of the Lloyds Bank Foundation, which partners with small and local charities to help people overcome complex social issues. Ruth is a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and of the German Marshall Memorial Fund, and writes on issues relating to faith and sexuality.
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Ruth has been campaigning for LGBT inclusion since she came out at the age of 14 in 1994. Over the last 30 years, LGBT people, their rights and their experiences, have been a lodestone for public attitudes, sometimes reflecting what is best about our country, sometimes reflecting the worst. The international rise of populism has once more thrust LGBT people onto the ‘wrong side’. Reflecting on the last 30 years of progress, and her personal and professional experience navigating the culture wars, Ruth examines what this means for LGBT people now and in the future, and what allies can do to help.
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Companies can’t afford to ignore culture, the non-financial risks facing them are devastating. Over the last decade, Ruth has supported multi-national organisations to think about the connection between their ways of working and their bottom line, and the approaches that evolve working practices to enable everyone to thrive. Ruth reflects on how inclusive home-working really is, who wins and who loses when you only meet remotely, and how organisations can maximise flexibility for their staff whilst driving efficiency for their business.
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As we live (and work) longer, whilst being divided by an increasingly disparate media, the differences between the generations are more pronounced than any time in history. Intergenerational workforces have different requirements and sometimes it can feel impossible to unite groups of people with a shared purpose. Employers are increasingly expected to navigate the demands and ideas of a workforce that may be at odds with the purpose of the organisation. Ruth explores how leaders can strike the right balance between drawing on the different lived experiences and insights of an increasingly diverse workforce whilst maintaining the necessary authorities and hierarchies for organisations to thrive.
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