Gary Ford

Gary Ford is an independent consultant working across the IT sector and the wider management environment, where he has a particular interest in the intersection between technology and diversity and inclusion. He is the founder of Moonshot Consultancy Ltd.

He has more than 30 years’ experience in the IT industry, focused on Financial Services.

He has developed and led several diversity workshops across multiple sectors, including finance, energy, higher education, construction and the civil service. He is the male allies advisor to the Women on the Wharf – a network of women’s groups for firms based in Canary Wharf in London.

With a number of partners, he has now formed the Men for Inclusion company on LinkedIn with the ambition of building a platform to help other men feel more comfortable in discussing gender equality in the workplace.

He is the co-founder of the 4iforum, a dialogic think-tank.

He is also working part-time for NHS Digital, leading an enterprise service management programme.

Gary lives with his wife, Julie, on the edge of the Meon Valley in Hampshire in the UK. They have 2 children, Isabella who is a Press Officer for the Department of Health and Social Care, and Lily, who is studying broadcast journalism at Cardiff School of Journalism.