Hannah Awonuga

Hannah Awonuga is an award-winning cultural transformation and inclusion consultant with over 20 years of corporate experience. She specialises in Cultural transformation and inclusive leadership equiping medium-sized businesses with the resources to drive organisational culture change. As the Founder and CEO of Illume Executive Consulting, and the founder of the Inclusive Foundations Programme, Hannah partners with executive teams and boards of SME businesses to embed systemic inclusion into the very systems, processes, and decision-making structures that shape workplace culture.

With senior roles at Knight Frank as Group Head of DEI, NED for Progress Together and as Global DEI Director at Barclays, where she held a 17-year-long career, Hannah brings deep expertise in aligning culture and inclusion with inclusive leadership and business strategy at scale. She is a globally recognised leader, with an extensive global network of over 80,000 professionals on Linkedin. She is frequently called upon to advise leaders navigating complex cultural challenges and leadership development strategies.

Hannah currently serves as a Non-Executive Director at Progress Together and has been recognised as one of HR Magazine’s Top 25 Most Influential DEI Practitioners. She is the author of The Illusion of Inclusion.