Known as "Miss Diversity", because of her own family background and expertise, Elaine was a leading African Caribbean editor/publisher in the UK and the first British woman to own a national magazine. Elaine read English and Social Sciences at the Open University (its first African Caribbean graduate) then completed her post-graduate at Cambridge University. Elaine is an extraordinary motivator and inspirational speaker. Her extensive knowledge, experience, humour and personality galvanise audiences everywhere. She is also a New Thought Therapist - believing in the power of thought to dictate our choices actions and achievements in life.

Her most recent thought-provoking book dealing with personal and professional issues, Money, Sex and Compromise, deals with relationships and why they fail, as well as how to improve personal confidence and social interactions.

Anti-ageist, pro-feminist and anti-racist, this former education manager is not only a tireless campaigner for fairness and justice, but also a leading speaker on social issues in Britain, having founded, respectively, the very successful annual British Diversity Awards, the annual Windrush Achievement Awards, which now become the Windrush Women of the Year and the Windrush Men of the Year Awards.

Long on humour, longer on patience, and never short of an opinion, Elaine is also a leading freelance contributor to the media. Apart from advising key corporations and public bodies on diversity practice and professional management development, she is currently a columnist for Black Britain Online. Other appearances as expert commentator on current affairs radio and television programmes include being a newspaper reviewer on BBC News 24, Any Questions? Woman's Hour and Moral Maze (Radio 4), Kilroy (BBC), Hypothetical (with Clive Anderson) and You Decide (with Jeremy Paxman).

Elaine was also the first recipient of the prestigious Leadership in Best Diversity Practice organised by MACE. She also presented the first ever Diversity Lecture in the House of Commons, then later addressed UNESCO's Global Women's Leadership Congress in Paris. Despite many setbacks in her own life, she has been resilient in her quest for self-fulfilment and business achievement and has been very successful with it.

Elaine has also been featured in numerous interviews and reports, notably The Voice Interview, and as one of the key profiles and role models in the book 'Portraits of Black Achievers'.

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