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Ellen Jones
Ellen Jones helps organisations make inclusion work for neurodivergent, disabled, and LGBTQ+ people. An inclusion strategist, author of Outrage, and founder of Pansy Studios, Ellen has worked with Google, Universal Music, and UNICEF.
Ellen Jones is an inclusion strategist, author, and campaigner who helps organisations get neurodiversity, disability and LGBTQ+ inclusion right. She's spent the best part of a decade speaking to and training teams, pairing honest challenge with frameworks people can put to work.
Ellen is the author of Outrage: How To Fight For LGBTQ+ Lives, named Indie Book of the Month by the Booksellers Association in 2026 and Highly Commended at the DIVA Awards. She founded Pansy Studios, a queer-led marketing agency building the UK's largest directory of LGBTQ+ freelance talent. She won the MTV EMA Generation Change Award and was named Stonewall's Young Campaigner of the Year.
Ellen has worked with Google, Universal Music, Ocado and M&C Saatchi, cultural institutions including Tate, the V&A and the National Portrait Gallery, and non-profits such as Oxfam and UNICEF. Recent clients include Novartis, Shelter, and GoDaddy. Drawing on lived experience, case studies, and current research, she runs most sessions in an interactive, workshop style that keeps them accessible.
Audiences leave knowing why so many inclusion efforts fail neurodivergent staff, how to design for the quarter of the population who are disabled, and what year-round support for LGBTQ+ colleagues looks like. Ellen brings humour and warmth to sensitive subjects, and she's just as comfortable keynoting, chairing a panel, or hosting.
Book Ellen for inclusion work that changes policy and everyday practice.
Topics, sessions and talks
Too many workplace inclusion efforts treat neurodivergent people as problems to be managed or accommodated at the margins. Ellen Jones takes apart the most persistent myths about neurodiversity at work and reframes neurodivergence as a natural and valuable form of human variation. Drawing on her lived experience, organisational case studies, and current research, she shows why so many initiatives fail neurodivergent staff. Organisations come away with a practical picture of real inclusion and the structural changes needed to deliver it.
LGBTQ+ visibility has never been higher, and political and legal hostility is rising right alongside it. Ellen Jones places workplace inclusion within this wider social context and shows why it shapes organisational culture for every employee, with LGBTQ+ staff at its heart. Balancing challenge with clarity, she reframes inclusion as a year-round responsibility with real-world consequences. Organisations leave with a sharper view of where their current approach falls short and practical steps to build workplaces where everyone benefits.
Disabled people make up roughly a quarter of the global population and hold a collective spending power of over thirteen trillion dollars, yet businesses keep designing systems that exclude them. Ellen Jones treats disability inclusion as both a justice issue and a strategic imperative, replacing outdated deficit models with systemic change grounded in universal design and access. Businesses gain a clear commercial and ethical case for disability inclusion, plus a practical starting point for building it in.
LGBTQ+ visibility is at a high, and so are political hostility, legislative rollback, and cultural backlash. Sharing its title with her book Outrage: How To Fight For LGBTQ+ Lives, this session from Ellen Jones argues that progress has always been organised. She centres the power of communities: how change happens, who drives it, and why solidarity is a daily practice. Audiences leave with practical, achievable steps for community organising, collective action, and sustained solidarity that turn concern into lasting impact.
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