Iain is actively involved in mentoring through the OUTstanding network, and for LGBT+ people in communications by helping launch the InterComms LGBT+ network in 2017. He is also being reverse mentored by a young LGBT+ executive. He was asked by the Institute of Directors to help launch their first ‘Pride in Business’ network and Cicero Group has been recognised as the only SME nominated as business of the year in the Pink News Awards. This year he joined the Advisory Board of the Institute of Business Ethics with a mandate to promote diversity as part of the corporate governance debate in the UK. Externally, Iain is a Top Tier Stonewall Ambassador, and is helping to develop their work supporting SMEs in the workplace. He also attended the Prime Minister’s LGBT+ reception in Downing Street in summer 2017 following his personal work to provide Government with thinking on LGBT+ workplace policies. He has had columns in both the Financial Times and The Times in the past 12 months to promote LGBT+ rights in Northern Ireland.
