Our Team

Claire Ebrey

Director, On The Level (she/her)

Claire is co-founder of Pride in Leadership and the founder and director of On the Level, a consultancy focusing on developing and empowering effective leaders and embracing diversity and inclusion.

Formerly Institute of Directors and Co-op Group, for 20 years Claire has been helping a diverse range of organisations elevate their people and purpose – from multi-billion turnover businesses to change-making social enterprises and charities. In her spare time, she is a trustee of Forever Manchester, the community foundation for Greater Manchester, and she volunteers for Stockport Race Equality Partnership (SREP), which gives a voice to some of the most disenfranchised people in the borough.

Matt Haworth

Founder, Reason Digital (he/him)

Matt is co-founder of Pride in Leadership and the co-founder of Reason Digital, an award winning social enterprise that helps mission led organisations - like charities, social purpose brands, and philanthropists - to use digital to help more people and gain more support. He also co-founded Impact, a software company that empowers businesses to measure and manage their social and environmental value.

Matt is also a Trustee of akt, the UK LGBTQ+ youth homelessness charity, and a member of the General Assembly of The University of Manchester.

Dame Ann Limb CBE DL

Dr Ann Limb CBE DL was named #1 LGBTQ+ public sector role model in the OUTstanding List in 2019 and one of the 50 most influential women born in the North of England in the Northern Power Women Power List.

Professor Malcolm Press CBE

Vice-Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University (he/him)

Malcolm, an internationally-renowned ecologist, was appointed as Vice-Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University in 2015, having previously held positions at the Universities of Birmingham, Sheffield, Manchester and UCL.

Malcolm is currently also a trustee of the British Council and the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), sits on the Board of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education, and is Vice-President of Universities UK. Previously, he has served as President of the British Ecological Society, a trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, a council member of the National Trust, a council member of the Society of Biology, a trustee of WWF-UK, and as a deputy chair for a Research Excellence Framework panel.

Malcolm is proud to work in a city that attracts LGBT+ people from around the world to live, work and study. He lives with his husband and their two poodles.

Mark Fletcher

Chief Executive of Manchester Pride

Mark Fletcher is the CEO of Manchester Pride, a charity which campaigns for LGBTQ+ equality. Primarily from a commercial background, Mark began his journey with the LGBTQ+ charity in 2004 taking on the role as a freelance sponsorship consultant. Over the years, his passion as an LGBTQ+ activist spurred him on to focus all his energy into the charity and, in 2014, Mark was appointed as the CEO.

Mark has been responsible for spearheading a programme of change within the LGBTQ+ charity which has springboarded its profile and positioned the Manchester Pride Festival as one of the world’s most recognisable pride celebrations. He has led the way in significantly increasing the vital funds raised by the charity and the awareness of its initiatives across the region driving real change for LGBTQ+ people.

Jodi Fox

Founder/Creative Director of Studio Zenko

Jodi is a brand consultant and creative director with over 20 years of agency, in-house and consultancy experience leading strategic branding projects and campaigns for some of the world’s biggest brands. Supported by a team of specialist collaborators, she now makes that wealth of experience and insight accessible to good people doing good things in a more personal and flexible consultancy offer.

As one of the few trans leaders in her industry, she’s also acutely aware of the importance of diversity, equity, the power of positive representation, and how an inclusive focus on people and planet benefits everyone. Alongside studio projects, she supports various good people and organisations in an operational and mentoring capacity - working with change-makers, advocates, and young people from LGBTQ+, disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds to help them bridge existing social barriers and realise glass ceilings are there to be broken.

www.studiozenko.com

Davinia Hamilton-Maddox

Founder and Director of Phoenix Digital

Davinia began her career as a young Account Exec in a traditional Advertising and Marketing agency over 20 years ago. Cutting her teeth on creating brochures and producing print ads when the world of 'digital' was still in its infancy.

That was the beginning of a deep fascination for all things 'new tech' and went on to progress her career along the digital path. She now leads a successful digital agency, Phoenix Digital, focussing on larger scale, bespoke, web development.

Davinia and her (now) wife moved to Manchester in 2001, choosing a city that was far more LGBTQ+ friendly than her birth town. She now considers herself an honorary Mancunian, settled in the suburbs with her wife and two dogs.

www.phoenixdigital.agency