Ian Dodds has over 25 years of experience of working in the fields of equalities diversity and inclusion, change management and coaching and leadership development in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. He runs his own consultancy business, Ian Dodds Consulting (IDC), which has over 50 experienced affiliate consultants worldwide, ensuring that they can provide worldwide support and best practice expertise.

IDC's global alliance partners are state of the art equalities, diversity and inclusion, change management, theatre, visual thinking, distance learning, diagnostics and software practitioners and help to keep their consulting at the cutting edge. Their clients come from the commercial, professional and public sectors and range from small organisations with under 50 employees to multi-national corporations, requiring global support, and major government departments, e.g. Coca Cola, Dixons Group, Economist Group, Goldman Sachs, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, Linklaters, McDonalds, Philips, Pitney Bowes, Sainsbury’s, Sodexho, Cabinet Office, Defra, Foreign & Commonwealth Office.

IDC help clients:

• determine the foci for their efforts on all the main fields of equalities, diversity and inclusion, change management and leadership development;
• devise strategies for success, based on their global knowledge of best practices;
• implement their strategies, including the leadership coaching and education and training needed to raise awareness and capability;
• measure progress.

Ian Dodds has considerable experience of equalities, diversity and inclusion strategy formulation and accompanying training. Furthermore, as Group Head of Organisation and People Development in ICI (then the largest chemicals company in the world), Ian Dodds was previously responsible for, and involved in, raising the cross-cultural capability of its top 1500 executives world-wide. IDC has been the principal advisor to the London Development Agency on equalities and diversity best practices to support the Mayor’s flagship programme 'Diversity Works for London' (DWfL) which is twinned with the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s equivalent programme, the Rainbow Push Coalition, in the USA.