15: Project Race with Rob Neil OBE

In episode 15 of Reworked, Rachael Wilson talks to Rob Neil
OBE, Head of Project Race at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and
the former Chair of the Civil Service Race Forum.


Rob provides a candid insight into his experience of being a
black man in the Civil Service. With over three decades of lived
experience, Rob offers a refreshingly honest analysis of the
experience of minority groups in the workplace. He gives real
examples of how he leads on diversity, how he is equipping his
cohort of race ambassadors to do the same and talks about why he
is calling on senior leaders to clear the runway so that progress
on race equality can be made.


Sponsored by the Permanent Secretary and Civil Service Race
Champion, Richard Heaton, Project Race is a corporate initiative
that supports the delivery of MoJ’s published objectives to
deliver increased numbers of BAME staff at senior Civil Service
level. The project facilitates honest conversations with the aim
of becoming more comfortable and confident talking about race
across the MoJ. Project Race is part of the Civil Service’
ambitious diversity and inclusion strategy to become the UK’s
most inclusive employer by 2020.


Rob was awarded an OBE in The Queen’s 2018 New Year’s Honours
list for ‘Services to Race Equality in the workplace and the
community’. He was shortlisted as an Ethnicity Awards Top 8 BAME
Workplace Hero in August 2018.


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