Patrick (Poggy) Murray Whitham is a professionally accredited engineer, Chartered manager, and accomplished diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) specialist with significant experience in consultative solutions, project and programme management, and business leadership. After over a decade in automation engineering, Poggy has recently refocussed their career on advancing DEI in engineering. Poggy is accredited by the IET, CMI, and IMechE, holds a BEng in Aerospace Engineering, an MSc in Engineering Management, and is pursuing a doctorate at Heriot-Watt, specialising in DEI in Engineering. As Programme Manager for EqualEngineers, Poggy is part of the senior leadership team and leads on DEI initiatives and programmes, including the Skills Bootcamps in Engineering, research such as the Masculinity in Engineering study, and business development. Poggy also manages EqualEngineers’ seven Diversity Networks: InterEngineering (the LGBTQ+ Network), REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage), Disability, Neurodiversity, Men's, Women's, and Menopause Networks. As a black, queer, disabled, and neurodivergent engineer from a low socio-economic background, Poggy has significant lived experience of intersecting identities and the challenges that these present working at various levels within engineering organisations. Through their work and research at EqualEngineers, InterEngineering, and beyond, Poggy is committed to driving impactful, systematic change in the industry.