Poppy Murray

Why organisations work with Poppy Murray

• She built the BE LADS Campaign on a single operational question, what can men and boys do to help women feel safer, and turned it into training that police forces, regulators, and large employers buy.
• Her consultancy, Transformative Culture Consultancy, is one of the few in the market designed specifically around the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act) duty that came into force in October 2024.
• She has delivered to Tesco Mobile, WSP, Butterfield Bank, the Chelsea FC Foundation, the Royal British Legion, and the City of London Crime Prevention Association. The client list crosses corporate, sport, charity, and policing.
• The National Police Chiefs’ Council named her runner-up in Making Safer Spaces in 2024, one of only two civilians recognised from 170 nominations. The credential is operational, not honorary.
• She works without blame or division. Audiences of men leave with something to do, which is why HR and culture leaders book her where other formats have stalled.

Biography highlights

• Founder, BE LADS Campaign, 2021
• Co-founder and Director, Transformative Culture Consultancy Global Ltd, 2024
• UN Women UK Delegate, 68th Commission on the Status of Women, 2024
• Runner-up, Making Safer Spaces, National Police Chiefs’ Council VAWG Recognition Event, 2024
• Founder, SafetyNet Guernsey
• Trustee, Lloyds Bank Foundation for the Channel Islands, since December 2021

Biography

The Worker Protection Act put a positive duty on UK employers to prevent sexual harassment before it happens. It moved the question from “how do we handle a complaint” to “how do we change the culture that produced it,” and most organisations are now working out what that means in practice.

Poppy Murray works in that gap. She co-founded Transformative Culture Consultancy Global with Brooke Jarvis in 2024, building prevention training that maps directly onto the new legal duty and the operational reality of the workplaces buying it. The firm’s clients sit across corporate, sport, charity, and policing, including Tesco Mobile, WSP, Butterfield Bank, the Chelsea FC Foundation, the Royal British Legion, and the City of London Crime Prevention Association.

Her authority on the subject is built on the BE LADS Campaign, which she founded in March 2021 after the murder of Sarah Everard. The campaign asked a precise question, what can men and boys actually do to help women feel safer, and turned the answer into training that engages men without blame. The National Police Chiefs’ Council named her runner-up in Making Safer Spaces in 2024, one of only two civilians recognised from 170 nominations.

Her professional background spans journalism, law, finance, and retail, which shapes how she handles sensitive material in front of mixed audiences. She is a UN Women UK Delegate, a trustee of the Lloyds Bank Foundation for the Channel Islands, and the founder of SafetyNet Guernsey, where her “It’s only a touch” campaign placed the criminal penalties for sexual assault in front of the night-time economy in plain language.

Key speaking topics

• Sexual harassment prevention and the Worker Protection Act
• Workplace culture and safety as a leadership responsibility
• Engaging men as allies in gender safety
• Violence against women and girls in corporate and public settings
• Behavioural change and bystander intervention
• Inclusion without blame or division

Ideal for

• CHROs and Heads of People preparing for the Worker Protection Act duty
• DEI, culture, and ER leads designing harassment prevention beyond e-learning
• Boards and ExCos in regulated and customer-facing industries reviewing safeguarding exposure
• Police, justice, and public safety leaders working on VAWG prevention

Audience outcomes

• A clear read of what the Worker Protection Act actually requires of employers and where most are still under-prepared
• A practical framing of male allyship that male audiences engage with rather than resist
• Specific bystander and intervention behaviours that translate from keynote to workplace
• A way to talk about VAWG in a corporate setting without losing half the room
• A model for connecting culture, safety, and inclusion as one operating question, not three