Bims Alalade

Bims is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development with many years of HR experience under her belt from both commercial and not for profit sector. Bims joined IMechE in 2018. Her interest in diversity was first sparked while working at BT where she was mentored by the Head of Equality and was tasked to write the equality articles for the 3,000 plus BT personnel community. She also joined the ethnic minority network whose goal was to see an increase in managers from ethnic minorities in BT.

Bims has always championed the diversity agenda, she led a transformation training project tasked with eradicating sexism from workplaces while working for a subsidiary of Ford Europe. Bims and her HR team also organised and hosted the first diversity and inclusion forum on behalf of YMCA in England and Wales to promote the diversity and inclusion agenda within the YMCA community.