Joanne Lockwood
Who is Joanne Lockwood?
Joanne Lockwood is an inclusive culture expert, keynote speaker and founder of SEE Change Happen Ltd.
What are Joanne Lockwood’s main achievements?
Joanne has spent nine years building SEE Change Happen into a consultancy that has worked with over 200 organisations, delivering more than 1,000 sessions along the way. Among her clients are lululemon, John Lewis Partnership, LEGO, NHS England, Unilever, LinkedIn, Jaguar Land Rover and HarperCollins. Before that, she built a career across IT and financial services, including time in the Royal Air Force and technology roles with organisations such as Coutts and Royal & Sun Alliance, alongside operating her own technology businesses.
Joanne holds Fellowships from the Professional Speaking Association, where she has also served as Chair, the Institute of Equality & Diversity Professionals and the Royal Society of Arts and is an accredited speaker with the CPD Standards Office. She hosts the Inclusion Bites podcast, which has passed 240 episodes, writes for publications including HRZone and The HRD, and is the author of Don’t Be a D*ck: 99 Everyday Ways to Be More Human. As a transgender woman, she brings direct lived experience to her work on inclusion and belonging.
What kind of topics does Joanne Lockwood cover at events?
- AI, Belonging and the Human Future of Work – Joanne looks at how AI is changing recruitment, communication and everyday decision-making at work, arguing that the biggest obstacle organisations face isn’t the technology itself but how people respond to it.
- Inclusive Culture and Belonging – Joanne helps organisations move beyond diversity metrics to build cultures where people genuinely feel they belong, drawing on the gap between the culture leaders believe they have created and the one employees actually experience.
- Inclusive Leadership in Practice – Joanne reframes inclusive leadership as a learnable set of practical skills rather than an innate trait, giving leaders the confidence to act without fear of getting it wrong.
- Inclusive Recruitment That Actually Works – Joanne examines how employer brand, culture and process design shape who applies, who progresses and who stays, positioning inclusive recruitment as simply good recruitment practice.
- DEI That Actually Works – Joanne examines what Diversity, Equity and Inclusion actually means, why so many initiatives stall, and what organisations that get it right are doing differently.
- LGBTQIA+ Inclusion at Work – Joanne draws on her own lived experience to give organisations an honest, practical understanding of what genuine LGBTQIA+ inclusion requires beyond visibility and symbolic gestures.
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Why should you hire Joanne Lockwood for your next event?
Joanne Lockwood speaks with equal credibility on the practical business realities organisations face and the human experience behind inclusion. Her sessions are warm, direct and grounded in practical steps, helping audiences move from awareness to real action.
Why should you hire Joanne Lockwood for your next event?
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Topics and Themes
- Adversity
- Mental Health
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Transgender
- LGBTQ
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