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One of the UK’s leading diversity specialists, Suki has been revolutionising executive search and inclusion for 15 years.

Having started his career at a FTSE 250 recruitment company before becoming a Partner for a boutique firm he established Audeliss in 2011. Recruiting leaders and executives for global organisations across sectors and industries, Suki has established a unique network of exceptional and diverse candidates as well as building successful relationships with clients. 

Determined to shape inclusive workplaces, in 2013 Suki founded OUTstanding, an LGBT+ membership organisation which, in partnership with The Financial Times, publishes an annual role model list recognising leading LGBT+ and ally executives and LGBT+ future leaders. The powerful work and rapid success of OUTstanding earned Suki the title of ‘Innovator of the Year’ at the 2013 European Diversity Awards and he was also named 64th in The Independent’s ‘Rainbow List’.

In 2016, Suki was appointed a Trustee of the Guild of HR Professionals.

The following year Suki launched EMpower and HERoes – initiatives focused on ethnic minorities and women.  Each year, in partnership with the Financial Times, EMpower and HERoes publishes role model lists globally. In 2017 Suki was also named as “Most Inspiring Recruitment Leader” at The Recruiter’s Investing in Talent Awards.

In 2018, Suki launched INvolve – an overarching mother-brand for OUTstanding, EMpower and HERoes. It encapsulates the mission, values and vision across all three brands, helping to create diverse and inclusive businesses where everyone can, and does, succeed. A world that involves 100% of everyone.

Suki is also a Stonewall Ambassador and passionately supports many charities including The Albert Kennedy Trust and Outright International. 

Meesha Rosa has joined Audeliss as Managing Director – Board Practice. Meesha has experience in setting the strategic and operational strategy for executive pipeline to board advancement initiatives and frameworks. Since 1996, Meesha has worked to increase board diversity by advocating for gender and racial/ethnic diversity in corporate boardrooms worldwide. Meesha is an Association of Latina Professionals of America (ALPFA), 2021 Most Powerful Latinas Women Worth Watching, and Profiles in Diversity Journal 2018 Women Worth Watching award recipient.

Meesha is a founding member of the Alliance for Board Diversity. She currently serves on the Corporate Advisory Board for the Association of Latino Professionals For America (ALPFA), The City of New York, Office of Controller Advisory Council on Economic Growth through Diversity and Inclusion, and on university, media outlet and publication research advisory panels. Meesha has also held research positions at Columbia University School of Public Health National Center for Children in Poverty, The Department of Sociomedical Sciences, and at New York City Administration for Children Service’s Management and Statistical Reports Division.

Meesha received her BA in Africana and Latino Studies from City University of New York, Hunter College, and completed an MS in Urban Policy Analysis and Management, at The New School for Public Engagement, the Milano School of International Affairs.

Myra has over 20 years of experience in executive search recruitment and leadership development. Throughout her career, she has worked with strategy and guidance to companies’ Search Practice including building and leading a team of executive and professional level search and research consultants responsible for engaging in client-facing work nationally. Additionally, Myra has overall responsibility for designing and driving continuous improvement of the search function including all relationship interfaces, key process management, and related technology.

Myra is a passionate, results-driven talent management and leadership development executive with a proven record of accomplishment in planning and leading cutting-edge talent and retention programs and teams in support of business goals and objectives, while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, agility, and excellence.

With significant experience creating and implementing top-performing recruiting and development initiatives, Myra is adept at collaborating with boards of directors, executive teams, and internal departments to set the overall talent management strategy for mission-focused organizations. With transparent communication and intentional collaboration, her approach to talent management is centered around a commitment to embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into organizational policies, practices, and culture.

Myra brings her extensive work developing, implementing and adopting talent management strategies with the boards of directors and executive teams of nonprofits, social enterprise, federal agencies, NGOs and Foundations to each search engagement, i.e. AIGA, NAfME, NAF, AWHONN, USAID, Share Our Strength (No Kid Hungry), The Epilepsy Foundation, NeighborWorks America, The NAACP, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, The National Council for Negro Women, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Myra is a Certified Six Sigma Green Belt and holds degrees and certifications from UMBC, Villanova University, Harvard University and the American Staffing Association. Myra is also a nonprofit board consultant with a passion for board development, governance, and training.