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Join us on 26th June for a hybrid CPD on Built on Belonging: Culture, Identity & Industry. Throughout the event, we will focus on the three areas of belonging, looking at Culture – what does that look like in the workplace, Identity – bringing yourself into the workplace, hidden identity, mental health and then looking at the Industry and diversity in leadership.
This event will be chaired by Lily Ellis, NetApp and SCSI board member along with Siobhan McKenna, Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at Public Jobs and more to be announced shortly.
In-person attendees are welcome to arrive from 12:30pm with tea/coffee and light lunch on arrival with the event beginning at 1pm sharp.
Siobhán McKenna is the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I) Policy Lead in the Public Service Workforce Division at the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform. She leads on the development of inclusive workforce policies across the Irish public sector. Prior to this, she was Head of ED&I at Publicjobs for three years, driving initiatives to broaden access to careers in the public service and ensure the workforce reflects Ireland’s wider diversity.
She returned to Dublin in 2021 after two decades working in London’s non-profit and public sectors. At the Open Society Institute, her policy and advocacy work focused on the global fight against HIV/AIDS. She later joined City Hall, where she led programmes for disadvantaged young people and oversaw the education programme for London’s Violence Reduction Unit. She also helped shape ED&I priorities for the wider public sector, delivering progressive HR strategies and sponsorship initiatives that reduced the gender pay gap in City Hall to under 1% by 2020.
Siobhán holds a Master’s in Ethnic and Racial Studies from Trinity College Dublin. She currently sits on the Board of Black & Irish, a non-profit working to support and amplify the voices of Black and mixed-race Irish communities.
