Heidi Heseltine

Founder & CEO at Diversity Study Group

Speaker

Heidi specialises in the global maritime industry, leading companies within the people and culture space since 2007 in order to support the sector’s need to progress in relation to DEI, particularly with respect to leveraging a competitive advantage through talent retention and attraction.

She has led the DSG’s rapidly evolving DEI service portfolio, working with a range of global stakeholders across a number of areas including data gathering and benchmarking, building and maintaining a community of DEI-focused maritime industry leaders, DEI strategy development and implementation, inclusive leadership and all colleague cascades, employee engagement surveys, an annual DEI in Maritime Conference and, most recently, spearheaded the launch of Crest, a global cross industry mentoring programme.

Heidi has over 30 years experience within the maritime industry. Her early career was in vessel operations before transitioning to focus on talent retention and attraction for the sector and subsequently moving into DEI for the sector.