David Equality Hull-Watters is a Neurodiversity, SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disability) and LGBTQ+ Specialist who is determined to enhance workplace-wellbeing.
National Diversity Award Winner, educator, motivational speaker and writer; a passionate equality advocate, committed to enhancing the lives of young people and adults who may feel marginalised or limited by labels.
A proactive member of any team, providing practical leadership on inclusion, creating a culture that enables all stakeholders to access personalized learning; meeting development and progression requirements.
Committed to developing the whole person and to enhancing businesses through creatively challenging participants to embrace their unique value, to encourage them to fulfil their potential and to understand and implement strategies to enhance wellbeing and productivity within the workplace.
Winner of the Vodaphone World of Difference Award, nominated for an Excellence in Diversity Award 2015, for his contribution to enhancing the diversity agenda within education, and for two European Diversity Awards because of his work with the Give ’em Hope Campaign.
HIGHLIGHTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Created the RESPECT Program; an Academic Management, Tutor and Business Support training program, based upon the EQUALITY ACT 2010, which offered opportunities for all participants to explore and celebrate diversity and which created a forum for the development of immeasurable cultural enhancement in terms of recruitment, retention, achievement and progression.
Founder and coordinator of the international Give ‘em Hope Campaignwhich has given a voice to those who feel marginalized and limited by labels through the use of social media; creating a library of video and written testimonies. The campaign was honoured at the National Diversity Awards 2014 when it won the Community Organisation Award (Multi-Strand).
Marriage Equality Pioneer who successfully campaigned for a change in marriage legislation by taking a legal case to the European Court of Human Rights with Equal Love UK (www.equallove.co.uk) so that all UK citizens could achieve their relationship goals.
Motivational speaker, including numerous television and radio appearances internationally (NTV Russia, House of Pride, San Francisco, ITV News, BBC Radio, LBC, YGN Online); talks and workshops, notably the NO TO HATE Vigil at Trafalgar Square, London Metropolitan Archives and Andover College, the NUS LGBT Conference and the LGBTQ General Assembly on topics including, The Equality Act 2010, Cultural Change, Active Citizenship).
Coordinator of Festival and one-off charitable events to raise awareness and funds for numerous organisations including The Terrence Higgins Trust, Teenage Cancer Trust, MacMillan Cancer Support and many more in liaison with public figures (including Kylie Minogue, Stephen Fry, Darren Hayes and Joan Baez).
Freelance writer with many articles on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the UK and US, including https://neverblendin.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/article-archive-links-to-writing-by-david-e-watters/. Invited to write the foreword to“Retreating Forward: A Spiritual Practice with Transgender Persons” by Rev. David Elias Weekley and currently in the final stages of editing his book, NEVER BLEND IN, which tackles su***de ideation amongst those who identify as LGBT+, through interviews with role models and CBT strategies, due for publication in 2020.
