Francesca Bailey
Francesca Bailey (Gonville & Caius, 2007) is an expert in financial services, a champion of diversity and inclusion in the workplace, a leader in LGBT+ advocacy, a mental health first aider, and a mother.
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Francesca works at LCP, a financial consultancy firm with 1,200 staff and partners. She founded the firm’s LGBT+ network in 2017, drove their inaugural submission for the 2019 Stonewall Workplace Equality Index, leading LCP to a first-time ranking of 258 out of 500 UK Employers, and led their first attendance at London Pride. She helped rollout LGBT+ inclusive people policies across the firm, ensuring include inclusive language and robust processes, including for reporting bullying or harassment of LGBT+ individuals.
Prior to joining LCP, Francesca had taken a career break for anxiety, driven in part by a requirement to "go back in the closet" in jobs she had held after university. During this carer break she reflected on what was important to her, and realised it was being able to be authentic and to ensure that others could be too.
Francesca co-founded O:Pen, the Pension Industry's first LGBT+ network, in 2020, and was recognised as an Professional Pensions Industry Rising Star in 2021.
Fast forward three years and Francesca is on maternity leave! Sha has a child with her LGBT+ Network Co-Founder, Catherine - the only other openly gay female Partner at LCP. They are the first same sex couple to have a family in the firm, and are engaged to be married - leading the way as proud and open role models for LGBT+ individuals in the pensions industry.