About Me
Claire Doel BSc PGD
Managing director
Claire has had a broad range of experience in the field of equality and diversity. Before setting up her own company, Claire was a freelance equality and diversity consultant with experience of assisting organisations to understand and promote diversity within their business practices. Her work has included the development of relevant policies, advising on the production of equality schemes , developing management information systems to embed diversity into business practices, and the delivery of practical training packages to raise awareness of equality issues designed to support change and development within the companies she has worked with.
Companies who have used Claire’s expertise have included South and West Yorkshire Transport Executives, York Driver Academy, Sheffield Hallam University, Leeds University, West and North Yorkshire Probation Services, South West Yorkshire Mental Health Trust, Kirklees Health Trust and Oldham Social Services amongst others.
As an associate of Equal Ability CIC of which Claire was a non-executive director, she worked with Sue Maynard Campbell on a number of activities specifically to promote disability equality. Some of the organisations she worked with in this capacity included TFL-London Buses, Northern Rail, The Department of Health, The Electoral Commission and the Countryside Agency
For ten years Claire was Equal Opportunities Manager for Sheffield Training and Enterprise Council. In that role she was responsible for developing the TEC’s equal opportunities strategy and ensuring that it was implemented, developing programmes to address disadvantage for women, disabled people and other groups in Sheffield. Claire also undertook quality assurance with and provided training on equality issues for training suppliers to enable them to deliver equality of opportunity to both staff and trainees. Claire undertook a secondment opportunity with Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency as part of a panel of diversity experts who produced a diversity tool kit for small businesses.
In her spare time, Claire is a school governor with specific responsibility for special needs and inclusion, and she is chair person of the governing body. Claire is a Braille user.