Marsha Ramroop is a global award-winning Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) strategist, and Founder Director of Unheard Voice Consultancy Ltd. She has formulated a culture change methodology which has been recognised as successful with an international prize from the UN-backed conglomerate of best practice for personal and organisational development, the IFTDO, and with Brandon Hall HRD Gold Medals.
As well as running her consultancy, Marsha works part-time as the Executive Director of EDI for Building People CIC, a hub that’s pulling together EDI resources and insight, as well as career pathways for underrepresented groups in the built environment.
She was the inaugural Director of Inclusion and Diversity at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) so has a clear understanding of how a traditional profession has been running and the challenges it faces. Her culture change programme for staff at RIBA received 100% recommendation feedback from managers and significant behavioural shift within months.
Routledge will be publishing Marsha’s Practical Guide to EDI for Architecture and the Built Environment, due in Autumn 2024.
She works with the Cultural Intelligence Center, the global headquarters of cultural intelligence (CQ) as one of their published and highlighted thoughtleaders on impactful organisational change, as well as a worldwide trainer and facilitator.
In addition to inclusion expertise, Marsha has a post-graduate degree in Business Management, which included the study of organisational behaviour, as well as a degree and post-graduate in media and journalism - originally having a 30-year career in broadcasting; skills she now uses to ensure clear communication.
Whilst working at the BBC, she led inclusion efforts across the Midlands and developed a pioneering inclusive recruitment pilot for presenting staff, and an inclusive reporter scheme.
In addition to being Vice Chair and a Fellow of the Institute of Equality and Diversity Professionals (FIEDP), an institute which strives to verify and set standards for the growing vocation of EDI practitioners, she has recently been appointed to the International Advisory Council of the Institute of Business Ethics. She is also a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA).