The Business Case: Equality Inclusion and Diversity - Enhancing Objectivity and Decision Making

David Pearson

David Pearson is an award-winning leadership and inclusion expert, keynote speaker and presenter, and creator of the UK’s only in-house LGBT-inclusive leadership certification.

As Director, Global Inclusion & Diversity at KPMG, David supported inclusion for more than 200,000 people in 154 countries. With a background in KPMG’s Corporate Finance practice, he is currently undertaking ground-breaking research in the field of leadership, culture and inclusion while Head of Diversity, Inclusion & Corporate Responsibility for an international law firm.

David led KPMG’s LGBT network since 2013, which in 2018 was named Network of the Year at the British LGBT Awards. He is a Patron of Freedom to Donate, a Trustee of ELOP LGBT Mental Health & Wellbeing, and an alumnus of the Stonewall Leadership Programme, Out Leadership’s OutNEXT programme for LGBT leaders, and Centre For Synchronous Leadership’s “Inspire Like A Man” and “Walk The Tightrope” leadership programmes. He has sat on The Economist Global Pride & Prejudice Advisory Board and the Advisory Council for Radius Business.

In 2017 he was named as a NatWest Top 10 Diversity Champion and in 2019 as Channel 4 Diversity Hero of the Year. In 2021 his team won the Excellence in Equality & Inclusion Award at the People in Law Awards. He is a past regional and national winner of Boston Consulting Group’s Business Strategy Competition.