Anna Delvecchio

Said the following about Glen Willie:

“Glen is passionate about improving diversity across the industry and over the last 2 years has voluntarily co-led several activities supporting a more diverse industry. Glen is a fantastic male agent of change with exemplar behaviours. He is passionate about the railway, its people and our customers. Glen always leads by example- inspiring many in a collaborative way.

In partnership with others, Glen has voluntarily helped deliver over 15 professional development and networking events to support gender diversity in the rail sector. Glen has been instrumental in helping secure guest speakers, panellists, and coaches to deliver training for events targeted in the South of England.

In his day job at South Western Railway, Glen has delivered multiple sessions to raise awareness for their newly ‘Inclusive Workplaces’ programme from senior executive to front line colleagues explaining the purpose of the equality act and its relevance to all employees as well as inclusion training and its importance to all.

Glen has worked closely with the front-line colleagues to deliver mess room banter workshops highlighting the potential issues that banter can have in the workplace – this has been a hugely successful programme with lots of engagement from colleagues across all functions in the business. Glen is well known and influential across all areas of the business.

Over the last 8 weeks, he has also helped deliver 3000 Lanyards across South Western Railway to raise awareness of inclusion and how it can be supported within the company to open essential and relevant conversations around diversity and inclusion.

Glen also champions the South Western Railway partnership with the Prince’s Trust to help young people get into jobs, education and training. This has resulted in 6 young people securing roles with SWR within the last 6 months.

I am nominating Glen as I believe he is an inspirational role model for Diversity and Inclusion“