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Ugo Monye
Ugo Monye helps organisations build inclusive teams and cultures. An inclusion and leadership speaker, he's a former England and Lions wing, chairs the RFU's diversity advisory group, and broadcasts for the BBC and TNT Sports.
Ugo Monye is a former England and British and Irish Lions wing who's now one of rugby's best-known broadcasters and a leading voice on inclusion in sport. He speaks on diversity and inclusion, team culture, and leadership.
Ugo was top try scorer on the 2009 Lions tour to South Africa, won 14 England caps, and played 241 games for Harlequins, winning the 2012 Premiership. He co-hosts BBC's Rugby Union Weekly podcast, works across TNT Sports, the BBC, and ITV, and is a team captain on A Question of Sport.
Ugo chairs the RFU's advisory group on diversity and inclusion and is a trustee of the Women's Sport Trust and Restart Rugby. In 2024 he became the first patron of the Lord Wandsworth Foundation, a charity that supported him as a child, which gives his message on access and opportunity real weight.
Audiences take away practical ways to build inclusive teams, how leaders create cultures where people feel they belong, and how sport's lessons on identity and wellbeing apply at work. His broadcasting background means he's equally comfortable on a panel or leading a session.
For inclusion events, leadership conferences, or Black History Month, Ugo brings elite sport, broadcasting, and governance experience to one conversation.
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Ugo Monye draws on his move from elite rugby into broadcasting and sports governance, using specific moments from his career and his RFU diversity work to show how teams build belonging.
Ugo Monye speaks on diversity and inclusion, high performance and team building, and social impact in sport. He is a former England and British & Irish Lions international who made over 240 appearances for Harlequins and now works as a broadcaster across BBC, ITV and TNT Sports, while serving as Chair of the RFU's Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group.
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