Head of Creative Equity at Channel 4, International Public Speaker, Broadcast TV Producer/Director, Entrepreneur
Using over 25 years’ experience in television and media, Naomi Sesay has devoted her career to serving as a powerful advocate for diversity and inclusion, becoming a trail-blazer for social enterprise. She is currently Head of Creative Equity at Channel 4, and was previously a senior trainer for FTSE 100 Companies.
As a Diversity & Inclusion expert, Naomi has delivered training for an array of organisations including Google, Microsoft, NBC Universal, Harvard and WPP. Naomi is also leading the build for the very first female-centric, bio designed, sustainable smart city in Sierra Leone.
An inspiring and thought-provoking speaker, Naomi challenges audiences to examine their emotional, cultural and neurological habits with the aim to create a truly diverse workforce.
Naomi’s keynote topics include but are not limited to:
Smart Cities: Matamp and the Future of Society, Technology, and Human Flourishing
In 2020 Naomi founded Matamp City on ancestral land in Sierra Leone. She has gathered a team of architects, scientists, environmentalists, investors and government officials, and the first phase of the city is set to be opened to the public next year. Matamp is a smart city rooted in ancestral wisdom, solar technology, regenerative economics, and ethical AI.
Drawing on her background in media, development strategy, DEI, and systemic transformation, Naomi makes the case that future cities must go beyond sustainability and become coherent ecosystems, fusing high technology with ancient intelligence, and urban design with critical human upgrades. In doing so, she shows how Africa is positioned to be the author of these new social, technological, and economic systems needed for global human flourishing.
Hidden In Plain Sight – Diversity in Motion
Creating a truly diverse workforce is paramount. But, in our current environment change is slow, difficult work. Perhaps, now is the time to think of a smarter way. This thought provoking and inspirational keynote examines how the information we currently possess lock us into unconscious holding patterns. By interrogating our emotional, cultural and neurological habits, Naomi demystifies the sticking point of change, interactively shows examples of palpable connection and moves us into a new place of diverse thought and action.
The Future of Inclusive Leadership – Nuances, Quirks and Science
Is it possible to consciously push the dial of change toward diverse and inclusive leadership? Only if we understand the dial we push. This interactive talk reveals the powerful tools that leaders in the D&I space will need in order to make their teams and organisations effective, agile and precise. . We will examine the nuances of diversity, the importance of thought leadership, and how to utilise cutting-edge scientific theories around ways we can empathetically and powerfully lead a diverse cohort.