The Visibility Paradox: Rethinking How Women Advance in the Workplace

Macaire Montini is HiBob’s VP of People & Culture, Americas, with more than 20 years of HR leadership experience across consulting, technology, finance, and life sciences. She is passionate about building people-first, high-performing workplaces where culture, business strategy, and employee experience work hand in hand.

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza is a freelance journalist and From Day One contributing editor who writes about work, the job market, and women’s experiences in the workplace. Her work has appeared in the BBC, The Washington Post, Quartz at Work, Fast Company, and Digiday’s Worklife.

Jo has worked for Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions for 13 years in many roles including as a Senior HR director, D&I Director and most recently leading the People, Culture and Belonging Team and Talent and Capability.  Her work includes implementing the business Inclusion and Belonging Strategy, delivering unconscious bias and conscious inclusion education, talent sponsorship programmes, psychological safety and running a global network of 25 employee resource groups. She is passionate that diverse teams working in inclusive cultures drive better results, improves wellbeing, and give companies a true competitive edge. 

In addition, Jo has led the companies’ Early careers strategy, Wellbeing and Wellness, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Sustainability goals of net zero before 2040.

Jo now leads Talent and Capability, this role is accountable for the divisional Talent strategy, Succession planning approach and High Potential talent programmes. She is also lead for the RELX Manager Effectiveness Workstream, alongside a lead on the AI Skills learning, AI Fluency for People Managers and Human Centric leadership. She also leads RELX education on Neurodiversity and Neuroinclusion and the company approach to Domestic abuse support for colleagues.

Jo has worked in HR for over 20 years, previously for O2 Telefonica, the Co-operative Group and Carphone Warehouse.

She has a BSc in Psychology from University College London (UCL) and a MSc in Organisational Psychology, specialising in motivation, neuroscience, change management, organisational change, judgement, and decision-making.

Jo is neurodivergent and a passionate advocate for inclusion and accessibility for neurodivergent and people with non-visible disabilities.

Outside of work, Jo loves early morning bike rides, spending time in nature and wellbeing, is passionate about politics, a keen baker, sustainable fashion lover and thriftier, and mother to her son Maxwell.