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Founders Profile
Diversity Marketplace was founded by Gamiel Yafai. Gamiel has worked at the highest levels with many public, private and voluntary sector organisations on Diversity and Inclusion Culture Change Initiatives for over 20 years.
Recipient of the Global Diversity Leadership Award presented by the Global HRD Congress, Global Goodwill Ambassador and Author of ‘Demystifying Diversity’ and ‘Yemen Proud’, Gamiel has worked with some of the UK’s largest Employers to design and implement Diversity and Inclusion Culture Change strategies and action plans to both attract new talent from diverse backgrounds and to support existing talent reach their potential through focusing on Inclusivity.
Gamiel founded and headed up the Diversity Practices for two of the UK’s largest HR Resourcing Agencies (Barkers, now Penna & Euro RSCG Riley, now Havas) before setting up Diversity Marketplace. He has accumulated a wealth of knowledge and experience in the areas of Diversity and Inclusive leadership and the impact of Unconscious Bias, within the employment cycle. Particularly the barriers faced when attempting to direct source or support diverse talent.
Diversity Marketplace was set up to support Recruitment Resourcing/Branding Agencies, and Direct Clients to achieve their Diversity and Inclusion objectives in terms of recruitment, attraction and retention. Diversity Marketplace has also conducted 32 research projects and developed many training programmes, including the facilitation of the Civil Service’s Positive Action Pathway (PAP) modules, Action Learning Sets and development days. At Diversity Marketplace, we have also developed a range of products and services to meet the challenging needs of UK employers, such as Diversity Champions Programmes, Ambassadors Programmes and Diversity Online are run for employers throughout the UK.
Gamiel is also an Ambassador of the Hunger Project.
He has also had a number of articles on diversity published in various publications, including People Management and The British Medical Journal.
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Our Partners
At Diversity Marketplace we work in partnership with a number of organisations to share resources and ensure that our clients can maximise on the best possible knowledge, skills and experience that we can jointly offer.
Our chosen charity is The Hunger Project which empowers people in both developing and developed countries to build a just world where everybody can fulfill their potential and build lives of self-reliance and dignity. Find out more and help the cause.
Diversity Marketplace transforms how organisations attract, develop, and retain diverse talent. We partner with clients to build inclusive environments where innovative thinking flourishes, unique perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute their best work.