Naeema Yaqoob Sajid
Naeema, has over 20 years of experience in the Scottish legal sector. She commenced her career as a Procurator Fiscal Depute and later moved to the private sector where she specialised in child and family law and became a partner of a large Scottish law firm.
Naeema is an avid campaigner for change and is particularly passionate about making improvements in the legal industry ensuring it is fit to face future challenges. Her specialism lies in diversity, equality and inclusion and the additional barriers intersectionality can create. She uses her lived experience, interpersonal skills and business insights to navigate positive change to workplace cultures and strategies. With that aim in mind, Naeema created Diversity+, a bespoke consultancy firm designed to assist organisations, specifically within the legal and financial sector, make improvements in their diversity and inclusion footprint, both internally and externally, thereby better meeting the needs of their stakeholders.
Naeema is also a co-founder of The Scottish Ethnic Minorities Lawyers Association. An organisation aimed at improving ethnic minority representation within the Scottish legal profession.