Mark Lomas – Lloyd’s Head of Culture
Mark Lomas has delivered numerous diversity and inclusion projects in the UK and internationally for organisations across a wide variety of sectors including major projects, finance, media, legal and charity sectors.
Mark is an executive committee member of the R.I.D.I. (Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative) campaign and just completed a 3 year term as a Non-executive Director of NHS Property Services with responsibility for People, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion.
In January 2016 Mark took up the role as Head of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion for HS2. Under Mark’s leadership, HS2 have won multiple EDI Awards ranging from inclusive procurement, Supplier Diversity, Best Employer, Race & Gender Equality Awards.
In 2019 Mark won Head of Diversity of the year at the Inclusive Companies annual awards and in 2020 was named on the People Magazine Top 20 Diversity & Inclusion Powerlist and has been recognised on a number of occasions between 2021-2024 by D&I Leader co. as one of the Top100 Global inspirational D&I Leaders. In 2021, Mark was awarded FCIPD, fellowship status of Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development.
Mark joined Lloyd’s as Head of Culture in January 2022. In September 2022 Mark was recognised by Hive Learning as one of the Top 75 DEI professionals in EMEA making a lasting impact on inclusive culture.
Mark has lead Lloyd’s to Gold standard on the Clear Assured Accreditation framework, to Disability Confident Leader status and won awards for Lloyd’s diversity focussed leadership and mentoring programmes. Under Mark’s leadership, the international Diversity Festival, Dive In has evolved and now includes an outreach and reverse mentoring programme, engaging over 35,000 people with participants from 84 countries globally.
In 2023 Mark was made a Fellow of the 5% Club, a group of major employers investing in apprenticeships and early career opportunities.
In 2024, Mark won the VERCIDA Inclusive Initiative of the year and was awarded Race Equality Matters Trailblazer status for his work on the research into Lloyd’s history with Trans-Atlantic slavery and Inclusive Futures, Lloyd’s response.
Specialties: diversity analysis/review & culture change projects, developing training & workshop materials (incl. e-learning),policy development, management of employer benchmarks, development of diverse resourcing & talent strategies, developing & successfully implementing diversity strategies in a large organisation, inclusive procurement and supplier diversity programmes.
