Members of the Irish Centre for Diversity team, organisers of the National Diversity & Inclusion Awards 2023: (L-R) Andrew Campbell-Edie, Laura O’Donovan, Caroline Tyler, Donna O’Connor, James Cawley Jnr and Ciara Corcoran
National Diversity & Inclusion Awards Finalists Announced to Celebrate Ireland’s D&I Excellence
The National Diversity & Inclusion Awards (www.NDIawards.ie) has announced the finalists for the first dedicated event to celebrate progress on Diversity & Inclusion in Ireland. From over 150 submissions, five finalists in each of the Awards’ 10 categories have made the shortlist after impressing the judging panel with their outstanding work with D&I. The awards are supported by a host of leading names including National Lottery, laya healthcare, Nestlé, Grafton Group plc t/a Chadwicks and Woodie’s, EY and more. Winners for the inaugural celebration of Ireland’s D&I excellence will be announced at the awards gala in Croke Park, Dublin on 2 February 2023.
The judging panel, chaired by Margot Slattery, Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at ISS and including Senator Eileen Flynn; Adam Harris, Founder and CEO, As I Am and Stephen Cluskey, Founder and CEO, Mobility Mojo among others arrived at the shortlists for the Awards’ 10 categories covering including Race & Ethnicity, Gender, LGBTQ+, Disability and more.
NATIONAL DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AWARDS 2023 FINALISTS
AIB Diversity & Inclusion Leader / Emerging Leader Award
- Anthony Kelly, RSA Insurance & 123.ie
- Claudette Whyte, JP Morgan
- Geraldine Greene, An Garda Síochána
- Kate Butler, Bank of Ireland
- Obonu Rachel Davies, GoTo Technologies
Aon Advancing Disability Equality Award
- Access Earth
- Allianz
- Fianna Fáil
- Mr Price
- SOLAS
EY Advancing Race / Ethnicity Equality Award
- Accenture
- Bank of Ireland
- Circle K
- Indeed
- Linkedin / African Professsional Network
Grafton Group plc – Trading as Chadwick’s & Woodie’s Company of the Year Award
- An Post,
- Cpl
- Fiserv
- Permanent TSB
- RSA Insurance & 123.ie
Laya Healthcare Outstanding Employee Resource Group Award
- Core
- DBFL Consulting Engineers,
- Grant Thornton
- Sensata Technologies
- SMBC Aviation Capital
Matheson Outstanding Diversity Initiative Award
- Bus Eireann
- Core
- FBD
- KPMG
- UCD
Musgrave Employee of the Year Award
- Danny Pio Murphy, DBFL Consulting Engineers
- Honey-Bell Oke, Version1
- Jennifer Corcoran, Hays
- Dr Mary Doyle-Kent, SETU
- Mei Lin Yap, Cpl
National Lottery LGBTQ+ Inclusion Award
- FBD
- Hays
- KPMG
- Midlands LGBT Project
- South East Technological University (SETU)
Nestle Advancing Gender Equality Award
- Allianz
- An Post
- Aviva Ireland
- Irish Rail
- Vodafone
PublicJobs.ie Public Sector Organisation of the year Award
- Bord na Móna
- Central Bank of Ireland
- IDA Ireland
- NTMA
- Teagasc
The awards have been launched by the Irish Centre for Diversity (irishcentrefordiversity.ie) and over 400 guests are expected to attend the awards which are being MC-ed by Brendan Courtney, who recently completed a Masters in D&I.
The finalists were announced at a celebration event held in the newly-refurbished conference and events centre at the Clayton Hotel, Cardiff Lane Dublin.
Caroline Tyler – Managing Director, Irish Centre for Diversity comments:
“Everyone benefits when best practice on D&I is shared. Thank you to everyone and all the organisations that entered the National Diversity & Inclusion Awards. The high standard of submissions gave our judges the difficult task of arriving at the shortlist, so very well-deserved congratulations to all the finalists. We are looking forward to celebrating the best influential, innovative, and inspiring people working in Diversity & Inclusion in Ireland when the winners are announced in the new year.”
Further information and tickets available at www.NDIawards.ie