ABOUT US

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OUR STORY

Fearless Futures was founded in 2014 by Algerian-British Hanna Naima McCloskey (she/her), a former investment banker who transitioned from global finance to social justice with an unflinching commitment to building a more equitable world. Her vision for Fearless Futures was born from a deep dissatisfaction with performative ‘diversity’ initiatives that failed to address the structural conditions producing inequality.

Hanna, joined shortly after by Chief Learning Officer Sara Shahvisi (she/her), together are determined to build a better world through systemic transformation - not surface-level changes in representation. What began as a grassroots effort to reframe inclusion has, over the last eleven years, grown into one of the UK’s most respected equity, strategy and organisational- change consultancies, widely recognised for its courage, rigour, and innovation.

Today, Fearless Futures continues to partner with organisations worldwide to design the systems that make equity inevitable — combining deep social analysis with practical, scalable solutions.

OUR VISION

is a world where equity is inevitable; where organisations, processes, products and policies serve the needs of people and planet.

OUR MISSION

We partner with organisations to diagnose complex challenges across people, process and product; designing solutions that embed equity to serve people and planet.

OUR APPROACH

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RIGOUR

Is in our DNA and we are not afraid to shake things up as we develop new methods for addressing entrenched problems.

Our creativity and flexibility are essential as we build pathways through complexity to deliver equitable outcomes.

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INNOVATION

Runs through all aspects of our work.

With our methodology deeply rooted in the social sciences, our team of experts are committed to driving equity: achieving impact without wasteful short-term fixes.

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COURAGE

Means asking the difficult questions and confronting complex, tough issues head-on.

At Fearless Futures, we don’t shy away from uncomfortable truths - we move toward them with intention and resolve.

MEET THE TEAM

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HANNA NAIMA MCCLOSKEY

FOUNDER AND CEO

Hanna is passionate, compassionate and challenging as an educator and combines this with rigour and creativity in consultancy. She brings nuanced and complex ideas in incisive and engaging ways to all she supports, always with a commitment for equitable transformation. Hanna is the co-author of Fearless Futures’ 2024 White Paper - DEI Disrupted: The Blueprint for DEI Worth Doing. She is a former Trustee of the Finance Innovation Lab that works for economic and financial systems change and is also now a qualified ABM bodyfeeding peer supporter, committed to enabling all parents to meet their bodyfeeding goals.

Hanna Naima McCloskey is Algerian British and the Founder & CEO of Fearless Futures. Before founding Fearless Futures she worked for the UN, NGOs and the Royal Bank of Scotland, across communications, research and finance roles; and has lived, studied and worked in Palestine, Italy, USA, Sudan, Syria and the UK. She has a BA in English from the University of Cambridge and an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, with a specialism in Conflict Management.

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SARA SHAHVISI

CHIEF LEARNING OFFICER

Sara Shahvisi is Chief Learning Officer at Fearless Futures, leading on all Fearless Futures' learning design and facilitation. Sara has worked with clients in the training and consultancy solutions space, across the public, private and not-for-profit arenas from Europe to North America to Asia - working with all levels of organisational hierarchy. Sara’s focus is always on creating learning experiences and consulting solutions that lead to real mindset, behaviour and process transformation.

Sara has over a decade of experience in education - having worked in equity and inclusion education for 9 years. Alongside her BA in Politics, Anthropology and Sociology from the University of Cambridge, Sara has an MSc in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and was awarded the Loch Exhibition Award. Her masters was focussed on racism and classism in UK policy. Sara is Kurdish-British.

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RUBIE EILÍS CLARKE

SENIOR DIRECTOR OF CONSULTANCY

Rubie is also an expert facilitator who is skilled at leaning into nuance, complexity and disagreement with curiosity and compassion. She is passionate about facilitating collaborative learning journeys that build deep understanding of the root causes of oppression and unlock innovative and meaningful ways towards collective liberation. In 2024 Rubie led the research and authorship of the White Paper DEI Disrupted: The Blueprint for DEI Worth Doing which has been described as a “clarifying”, “bold” and a “deeply practical resource”

Rubie is of Jewish and Irish heritage and is based in her hometown of London. As Senior Director of Consultancy at Fearless Futures, Rubie supports ambitious organisations to diagnose inequity in their ecosystems and design, implement and evaluate innovative solutions. Her expertise lies in critical social theory and research, policy analysis and organisational change strategy. She holds a B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from Goldsmiths University, London and a M.A. in Global Political Economy from the University of Sussex, with a focus on social and economic policy, Race critical theory and critical finance studies.

OUR FACULTY