Heidi Heseltine

Founder & CEO at DSG

Speaker

Heidi has extensive experience of leading companies within the people and culture space. Her primary focus is on supporting the industry and clients to forge more inclusive, high-performance business environments. Heidi has played an innovative and award-winning role in encouraging the sector’s need to make progress in relation to inclusion. She is well-known for her expertise in helping clients to leverage a competitive advantage through talent retention and attraction.

Heidi is Founder & CEO of DSG, an organisation dedicated to helping the maritime industry and its wider network unlock the full benefits of inclusion through expert consulting, benchmarking and tailored development programs. With a focus on strategy, implementation, and learning solutions for professionals both ashore and at sea, DSG supports organisations in achieving psychological safety, high-performing teams and fairness at every level - driving meaningful cultural change across the sector.

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 inclusion and diversity for the sector.