Our Coaches | Cecilia Harvey

Cecilia Harvey

About

Cecilia Harvey is the Founder and Director of Cultural Nexus Ltd, based in the UK. A quadrilingual Social Anthropologist, she holds an MA in Social Anthropology from the University of Sussex and a BScEcon in Social Anthropology from the University of Wales, Swansea. Her passion for the richness of human difference, fairness, and the psychology of identity drives her work in Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I). Cecilia partners closely with executives, boards, HR, Integrity & Compliance, and Communications professionals to promote sustainable, equitable change.

She is an accredited facilitator in Cultural Intelligence (CQ®), and specialises in Ethnicity, Identity & Belonging; ED&I Strategy; leadership development; behavioural and cultural transformation; and embedding fairness as a core organisational principle. Cecilia designs data-informed, inclusive frameworks that align AIM — Accessibility, Inclusion, and Multiculturalism — to ensure change is both effective and enduring.

Experience

Drove and coordinated strategic ED&I initiatives centred on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity, and disability, working with multiple stakeholders.
Designed and delivered training programmes on unconscious bias awareness, microaggressions, inclusive language, and other ED&I themes.
Facilitated global cultural transformation programmes and implemented bespoke initiatives for teams in Vietnam, South Africa, the US, and Canada.
Chaired the Ethnicity in Maritime network under the national Maritime UK Diversity Programme (until April 2022) and established ED&I networks, committees, taskforces, and employee resource groups (ERGs).
Partnered with iHasco in 2020 to develop ED&I and disability training courses.
Designed ED&I strategies, launched mentorship programmes for female colleagues to tackle the gender pay gap in the UK, and created benchmarking tools to support transformation programmes.
Some clients include The Design Council, Liqueo, MayoWynne Baxter, GAC, Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames and Royal HaskoningDHV.

Cecilia was great to work with on the lead up to the event and really grasped who we are as a company, the purpose of the talk and the outcome we were looking for. Cecilia met with us multiple times and liaised with us in great detail about the content to make sure we were happy with it. She delivered a fantastic talk covering the theme of reclaiming narratives with focus on respectful curiosity and 'ecosystem rather than community'. The talk was not only thought provoking and topical, but also received overwhelmingly positive feedback from colleagues. Cecilia effortlessly normalised the celebration of Black History Month in the UK in the talk. We would highly recommend her approachable and informative delivery and would definitely work with Cecilia again for future events.

Ceri Holland, People Advisor &
Wadoud Hazineh, ED&I Forum Pillar Lead Assystem UK