Sam Kingsley (she/her) is a consultant with experience designing and leading successful Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB), Employee Wellbeing and Engagement strategies and culture change programmes. Sam is experienced in setting and delivering tangible targets, by combining research and data with lived experience and a hands-on approach. Having recently been awarded the Diversity Champion Corporate Award and International Inclusion Award, which form the International Diversity & Inclusion Awards 2023, by awarding body Diversiton for the development and early implementation of Unite Students DEIB and Wellbeing strategy, Sam was also shortlisted as a Rising Star for Property Weeks Student Accommodation Awards 2023 and for Diversity Team of the Year at the British Diversity Awards 2024. She is committed to delivering impactful change projects both within organisations and across the UK through her voluntary work and appointments to National Student Pride’s Advisory Board and Student Mind’s Anti-racism Council.

As an intersectional woman, she is passionate about promoting understanding and acceptance, over tolerance, and the workplace being an inclusive space in which people can bring their full selves and feel like they belong.