Sharon is a senior visible sponsor for GLOBE, regularly speaking about the importance of authenticity, inclusion and LGBT equality. She has mentored a number of LGBT+ employees and in 2015 supported a trans employee through the process of coming out at work. In 2007, when she was partner responsible for Talent on the Deloitte Executive, she launched the firm’s diversity networks, including the LGBT+ network GLOBE. At the time she became the sponsoring partner for GLOBE, a role held until 2012, and since then she has been the network’s Executive Sponsor, providing the network with a link to the firm’s Executive. Externally, through her role as a non-executive director on the Board of the CBI she has been an advocate for the establishment of LGBT+ networks at other UK employers. She has also spoken at the Out & Equal LGBT+ Workplace Summit and acted as the host of a number of GLOBE’s external events focused on LGBT+ inclusion.
