MARGOT SLATTERY
Country President, Sodexo Ireland, LGBTQ Advocate
Margot Slattery is country president of Sodexo Ireland, part of the global Sodexo Group, the world’s largest multi-services company. In Ireland, Sodexo employs 2,000 people delivering services that improve the quality of life to clients at 200 locations in the Republic and Northern Ireland. These services include catering, cleaning, waste management, grounds maintenance, reception and security, building and equipment maintewas and project management.
Margot is committed to furthering the diversity and inclusion agenda and Sodexo was a founding partner and signatory of Ireland’s first Diversity Charter. Sodexo was a finalist in the Best Employer category at the 2014 and 2015 GALA Awards, Ireland’s LGBT Awards.
Margot is a member of Sodexo’s global LGBT network leadership team, which has been influential in promoting and championing LGBT equality across the world. She also chairs the UK and Ireland sexual orientation workstream, part of Sodexo’s diversity approach.
Margot was named senior leader of the Year at GLEN’s inaugural Workplace Equality Index Awards held in Sept 2015. She appears in the 2015 and 2016 Out at Work/ Telegraph list of Top 50 LGBT Executives and the 2015 Financial Times’ list of Top 100 OUTstanding LGBT Business Leaders.
Outside Sodexo, Margot sits on the Board of GLEN (the Gay and Lesbian Equality Network) in Ireland and is working on the introduction of a workplace charter focusing on how LGBT diversity helps drive business excellence. She is president of appeals for the Irish Hospitality Trust, a member of the Institute of Directors and a non-executive director of Injuries Claims Board Ireland.