Lydia Amoah

Lydia Amoah, Founder & CEO

Recognised as Britain’s leading authority on diversity, equity and inclusion, Lydia Amoah is a campaigner, founder of cultural change agency, Backlight, award-winning business coach and TV presenter. She is a DEI pioneer; a history-maker; a game-changer. Her many landmark achievements include:

• supporting the paths to progress of 50,000+ people by unpicking their individual career blockers and identifying clear routes for them to fulfil their ambitions.
• driving cultural workplace change for organisations such as Ofcom, P&G, BBC, NFL, Financial Times, Channel 4 the Daily Telegraph, EY, the Bank of Ireland, and the NHS.
• architect of Accelerate, the creative sector’s revered multicultural leadership programme that’s actively changing the landscape of Black, Asian and Multi-Ethnic leaders in the workplace.
• author of the acclaimed Black Pound Report, which reveals ground-breaking insights into the spending power and lack of representation in advertising of Black, Asian and Multi-Ethnic consumers.
• hate crime and racism policymaker through her STOPIT protocol, which protects employees from online hate and racist abuse.
• patron of Show Racism the Red Card and UN associated TOGETHERBRAND.

Lydia is available as a DEI advisor, a keynote speaker, and a career and leadership coach.