As the first openly gay senior leader to manage a department at the Post Office, Ben leveraged his previous experience of chairing Zurich Insurance Company’s first GLEE LGBT+ network by being one of Post Office’s founding members of its LGBT+ PRISM network. He has chaired the Post Office PRISM network, and at the Post Office’s first Diversity and Inclusion Launch Event, he spoke as the senior LGBT+ leader on what it was like to be an openly out gay leader. During this time Post Office introduced rainbow lanyards and Diversity and Inclusion requirements for suppliers to Post Office; applied for a trade mark for a rainbow flag version of the iconic Post Office logo; created a Post Office PRISM intranet website, and introduced gender neutral toilets. Outside of work, Ben is a Stonewall Ambassador and mentors an LGBT+ university student through the Travers Smith’s Role Model programme. He has previously supported the Albert Kennedy Trust in their purple door project and LINK, as well as speaking publically to advocate for Marriage Equality in Australia.
