Sinéad Burke
Founder, Tilting the Lens, Advisor on Inclusive Design and Systemic Change
Sinéad Burke works at the point where organisations are forced to confront a deeper question: who gets to shape decisions, and how that influence is structurally enabled. As founder of Tilting the Lens, she advises global organisations on how systems, environments and experiences are designed, and where exclusion is unintentionally built in. Her perspective moves beyond representation, focusing instead on how power, access and participation operate inside institutions. Shaped by collaborations with global brands, policymakers and her role as a contributing editor at British Vogue, she brings a lens that is both precise and disruptive. She is particularly effective in senior forums where inclusion, ESG and organisational design are converging into questions of governance, accountability and real influence.
Signature Keynotes
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What changes when organisations design for participation, not just representation
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How systems, environments and decisions determine who is heard, and who is not
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Where influence sits inside organisations, and how it can be reshaped
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Why inclusion is becoming a question of governance, not programmes
The Burke Effect
When Sinéad speaks, employee voice is reframed as a question of system design and influence.
Audiences leave ready to:
Rethink how organisations structurally enable or limit participation and voice
See ERGs as potential influence systems, not engagement channels
Understand how design decisions shape access, equity and organisational outcomes
Move from representation to embedded influence within governance and decision-making
Why Book Sinéad
Sinéad Burke brings a distinctive, system-level perspective that challenges how organisations think about voice, power and participation, making her particularly valuable in senior discussions where the expectation is to rethink structures, not refine initiatives.
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