James is the business representative for Mott MacDonald’s Advance committee, the employee network tasked with embedding equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the company. In his role as the leader of the UK and European business, he provides visible leadership and set the general direction of the business. Two of his key priorities are to create an environment where all staff can come to work and be themselves, and to ensure that all staff are valued for the contribution they make. This has been supported through a role models poster distributed at all UK offices showing visible LGBT+ employees and by participating in the Pride parades in London, Brighton and Manchester in 2017. Additionally, under James’ leadership, the company recently collaborated with InterEngineering to create video profiles of LGBT+ engineers, to raise visibility and show other LGBT engineers that sexuality or gender identity are no barrier to a career in engineering. He also organised the company’s sponsorship of the ‘Art of Being Out’ exhibition in association with OUTstanding.
