From introducing LGBT+ diversity into a Texas law firm, being an out trainee at his first law firm, and also setting up Emerald Life as the UK’s first insurance provider specifically ensuring equality for its LGBT customers, inclusion has been at the heart of what Steve does. He was even part of the group that set up the first ‘GaySoc’ at King’s College London in 1989. Emerald has a Trans Advisory Group that meets four times a year to discuss specific trans issues around insurance, and a mentoring program for Albert Kennedy Trust service users. Externally, Steve is a Stonewall ambassador and regularly speaks in schools on behalf of Diversity Role Models, as well as a THT senior ambassador. He supports and sponsors a number of other LGBT organisations, and helps LGBT+ activists from the former Soviet Union area, based on his eight years working in Russia.
