MATT PARSONS

Founder | Radius Networks

As the founder of Radius Networks, Matt helps the world’s biggest brands to empower their employee networks to drive diversity, equity and inclusion.

As an LGBT+ man with ADHD and dyslexia, Matt found a sense of belonging when he joined and later founded his own employee network. The experience was life changing.

Seeing first-hand the power of employee networks to ignite change, Matt set up Radius, the first organisation dedicated to supporting network leaders and turning their passion into action.

Radius develops employee networks to support the EDI ecosystem and its overall business impact, by training, supporting and connecting all of the key people involved in a network’s success – from Leads, Committee Members and Sponsors, to EDI Champions, Teams and Councils.

In thousands of global workspaces for companies big and small, Radius is changing the way organisations deliver and embed EDI from the ground up. Leading the industry for 16 years, Radius now works with more than 1000 organisations across 125+ countries, including household names such as HSBC, Meta, Warner Brothers, BBC, Bank of America, Coca Cola, Disney, EY IBM plus HM Government and the United Nations.

A National Diversity Awards winner himself, Matt provides strategic support to many EDI businesses and has served on the volunteer board of Diversity Role Models, NAT, The Wig Party and other charities.

Today Matt is passionate about promoting human growth through cross cultural understanding and helping businesses connect globally across perceived divides. As more of us join the global, digital workspace, this work feels more important than ever.