Our Team

GDP is truly global, with team members covering all continents.

GDP Management

Farrah Qureshi

CEO

Advisory Board

Wendy Cartwright

John Gainham

Clive Lewis OBE

Pinky Lilani CBE DL

Leigh Lafever-Ayer

Consultants

Debra Lee

Deborah Lewis

Joel Brown

Maria Salkeld

Sam Hernandez

Anita Billings

Pellegrino Riccardi

Paola Carranco

Dr. Pete Jones

Sandra Hayes, Ed.D.

Alan Richter

Ha-Young Woo

Sharon Wang

Duncan Smith

Dr. Niru Kumar

Marco Noordeloos

Mona Lau

Eric Toh

Bronson Hlatshwayo

Thais Compoint

Project Team

GDP

Waseem Ilyas

Head of Digital

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Meera Shah

Senior Project Manager

Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.

Hellen Keller
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Irina Neagu

Senior Project Manager

When everyone is included, everyone wins.

Jesse Jackson
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Shazmin Akhtar

Project Manager

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Malcolm Forbes
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Raluca Ciuperca

Project Executive

There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

Michel de Montaigne
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Rebecca Iveson

eLearning Project Manager

We are all different, which is great because we are all unique. Without diversity life would be very boring.

Catherine Pulsifer
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Corey Ashley

Digital eLearning Assistant

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Mahatma Gandhi
Our Leadership

GDP is led by Farrah Qureshi, a globally recognised expert on diversity and inclusion.

Our Story

Founded in 2009, GDP pioneered a new approach to business and management consultancy based on embedding principles of diversity and inclusion across organisations, impacting every business division and department.

Our Team

Our global network of consultants, trainers, researchers, learning designers and delivery partners work globally and virtually to deliver outstanding results and exceptional value.