Motivating future leaders

Lucy Tarran is a senior associate in the M&A team at Interpath Advisory, working with clients to complete buy-side or sell-side transactions. Lucy project manages a transaction from identification to execution, advising on method / timetable, preparing marketing documentation, managing the due-diligence process, providing valuation support and assisting with contractual and commercial negotiations.

Prior to this, Lucy worked in Corporates Audit at KPMG for 3 years on the graduate scheme, whilst obtaining the ACA. Lucy graduated from the University of Exeter with a First-Class BSc (Hons) in Economics and Finance.

Emily Ford is a Policy Adviser at the Chartered Governance Institute, working with government, regulators and stakeholders to promote good governance. Her two priority areas are the role of governance in successful ESG strategies across all sectors, and the effective governance of not-for-profit organisations, incorporating the charity and educational sectors. In her role, she conducts and produces research on sector trends, publishes practical guidance for governance professionals, and engages with government and regulators on key issues.

She has a background in corporate communications, think tanks and third-sector campaigning. She graduated with an MPhil in International Development from the University of Cambridge and a First-class BA in French and German from King’s College London.

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Katy Neep, Head of Employer Engagement & Partnerships, Youth Futures Foundation

Katy drives Youth Futures Foundation’s work to influence change in employer behaviour and practice around the recruitment, retention and progression of young people. Building strategic partnerships which enable YFF to amplify evidence led solutions that deliver behaviour change is a key part of the work Katy delivers.

She has over a decade’s worth of experience of working with employers to achieve social inclusion through good work, most recently as Head of Campaigns for Employment and & Skills at Business in the Community.

Outside of work Katy is Chair of Governors at a local primary school and has a passion for vintage fashion, books and running.

Rachael is Deputy Director of the Institute and is responsible for our research programme, and our advisory and training services. She is most interested in how research can generate insights that inspire action. 

Rachael has collaborated with senior leaders across business, charities, communities, local and central government. After gaining her first degree in Politics and History from the University of Durham, and a Masters in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics, Rachael worked in Westminster, then for Carers UK, for UNISON, the public sector trade union, and for the TUC, on skills policy. She was at Business in the Community for over ten years, as an expert in workplace diversity and then in education business partnerships. As a Director at BITC, she worked closely with the Department for Work and Pensions, the then Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and business leaders from Aviva, Barclays, Nationwide, UBS, McKinsey and many more.  Her most recent role was on the SLT of Speakers for Schools as it scaled its delivery of opportunities for young people. 

She has held a number of trustee roles including on the board of the Rich Mix Cultural Foundation, the Bromley by Bow Centre and East End Homes. She is currently chair of a charity called Sister System.  She was an elected local councillor for ten years and served as leader of the Labour Group on Tower Hamlets Council. In 2019 Rachael gained an MSc from Birkbeck, University of London, in Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, with a dissertation focussed on how boards communicate their community engagement.