Becky has over 20 years’ experience as HR practitioner in the third sector. She worked with Edinburgh University Student’s Association, building and developing a strategically focussed HR function to support commercial and charitable operations. Becky has also worked extensively as an HR Consultant for a range of third sector and commercial clients, delivering HR support and strategic project consultancy.

In March 2023, Becky joined Age Scotland as their first Director of People and Culture and is working on a wide-ranging remit to further develop a culture which promotes EDI, productivity, innovation and growth. Becky has significant experience of HR practice centred on EDI not only to manage organisational risks effectively, but to add value by developing supportive and inclusive culture working cultures.

Rohini has been in housing for over 30 years and since 1999 has led an award-winning Equality Programme for housing associations. She has worked with several partner organisations on many and varied innovative projects. These have successfully tackled diversity issues in social housing and had a significant impact on organisations serving the public, legislators and the wider community. She has a proven track record for devising strategy and practical projects which tackle inequality issues faced by marginalised communities.

Rohini sits on many advisory committees and operates at a strategic level, engaging regularly and effectively with government representatives and public bodies on equality, older people and housing issues.

Rohini has now retired from the housing sector and has joined Age Scotland part time to work with older people with a focus on equality. She has also set up her own consultancy, RSJ Equality, to continue her work of equality in housing, as she believes it is important to ensure that equality is at the core of all policies and practices.

Lynne is accredited as a specialist in employment law by the Law Society of Scotland and is also an accredited mediator. She forges close working relationships with our team's clients and her commercial and straight-talking approach is welcomed by them. She works with clients in various sectors across the public and private sector in Scotland and the UK including public transport providers, universities, government bodies, investment firms and banks.

Lynne advises on all stages of the employment relationship from recruitment, through to termination and beyond. Her work is split between dispute resolution through employment tribunals and on advisory and non-contentious employment law. Lynne advises on equalities issues, business change, transfers and redundancies, industrial action, executive hiring and exits, investigations. She particularly enjoys working with HR professionals to support them on complex HR issues.

Emma Roddick lived in Ross-shire as a child, attending Bridgend Primary School and, later, Alness Academy. In her late teens, she moved to Inverness for a temporary position at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI), alongside casual Deliveroo work on her bike. When she was 19, she accepted a position with the Scottish Ambulance Service.

In 2019, she was elected as councillor for Inverness Central in the local by-election, and in her role as Councillor, sat on the South Planning Applications and City of Inverness Area Committees.

Ms Roddick was a board member of the Merkinch Partnership and, during lockdown, ran a COVID-19 support group in her local area.

She was elected as MSP for Highlands and Islands in 2021.

Neil joined as the Chief Executive of the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission in July 2015.

His previous background combines significant experience of regulation and complaints, and of the Scottish legal services market. Neil currently sits on the Council of the Advertising Standards Authority, involved in both the governance of the organisation and in adjudication on complaints within the £20 billion UK advertising industry. He is the Senior Independent Director and Chair of their Audit and Risk Committee.

In 2009 he was appointed by the Privy Council to sit on the General Dental Council, the regulatory and complaints body for 104,000 dental professionals in the UK and he served two terms on the Board (demitting in September 2017) as well as chairing the Remuneration Committee. Between 2004 and 2015 Neil worked with the Law Society of Scotland, latterly as their Director of Representation and Professional Support. He has previously held a number of other Executive and Non-Executive Director roles in organisations spanning the legal sector, healthcare, consultancy, and oil and gas. He holds a Law degree from Edinburgh University, and a Masters in Quality Management from Birmingham University (focussing on a comparative analysis of regulatory quality systems for doctors and lawyers). He has just stepped down (August 2022, following a six-year trustee term) as the Chair of Changing the Chemistry, a peer network of over 700 members supporting diversity of thought on UK boards.

Ryan is an Occupational psychologist with over 10 years’ experience specialising in employee engagement, wellbeing, and organisational culture. He has led global employee research programmes for organisations including Tesco, Nestle, HSBC and the NHS and delivered keynotes on employee experience at the global Amazon EX summit in Seattle. Ryan is the Client Director at KultraLab, a digital coaching platform fusing behavioural science and technology. He is driven by one simple belief that everyone deserves to have good days at work.

Led policy responses to EU, UK and Scottish policy agenda consultations in areas such as health inequalities, widening participation, economic development, equality & diversity.

Built successful relationships ensuring widespread understanding and implementation of integrated equality related activity and intersections across policy areas.

Provided strategic level advice and information covering legal frameworks, intersections across policy fields and created structures to meet external requirements.

Project lead across the equality and diversity agenda impacting on learning, teaching, research and strategic direction.

Project lead for areas such as organisational values, mental health (including the Black Dog Campaign), REF2014 equality and diversity aspects, gender equality and equal pay.

Utilised local, national and benchmarking data to provide evidence-based rationale for strategic direction and resulting policy.

Developed and implemented a policy development and monitoring tool through impact assessment.

Managed discrete teams supporting staff and portfolio development internally and externally.

Provided mentoring and coaching support.

Developed engagement and involvement cycles across stakeholders including qualitative and quantitative methods producing user-led outcome focused policy and interventions.

Created and delivered training across complex areas for a wide range of audiences.

Authored reports and articles for internal and external use regularly within tight timescales.

Regular input to internal and external forums including conference presentations and providing critical friend input to partners.

Organised conferences, workshops and knowledge exchange forums influencing research and innovation agendas.

Developed web and social media content.