Cordelia is the Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) for Stonewater (a national Housing Association that is one of the ten biggest in the UK). She is responsible for the strategy and operational delivery of an inclusive and holistic approach to EDI that meets both the organisation’s future capability needs across the business and wider organisation and cultural transformation agenda. Under her leadership Stonewater was named a Top 10 Outstanding Employer in the national Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix.

She has been developing and delivering Stonewater’s successfully recognised EDI programme of work for the last 9 years. She recently become the Co-Chair of the Chartered Institute of Housings (CIH) ED&I Steering Group. Cordelia is also one of the new Co-Chairs of the London and South East Diversity Group championing EDI across the housing sector.

In 2022 saw Cordelia become an Inside Housing EDI Woman of the Year for the second time and earning a special commendation for her EDI work across the Housing Sector.

In 2020 Cordelia was named one of the EDI Housing Heroes and gained national recognition for her EDI work in Housing and making Stonewater EDI Housing Thought Leaders.

She has over 30 years Equality and Diversity professional experience, working in the Community, Public and Private sectors. She began her career working in Race Equality Councils and went on to the Commission for Race Equality specialising in complainant aid and race equality, where her passion for all things EDI pushed her to become a more generic equality officer and campaigner for all equality and diversity change.

Cordelia is committed to sharing her experience and knowledge recently speaking at EDI national events for the NHS, External Mentoring Programmes for Housing Diversity Network and the BBC and Connex Leadership Networks at their International BLM event.