Layla McCay is Director of Policy at the NHS Confederation and Executive Lead of the Health and Care LGBTQ+ Leaders Network. She has previously worked as a NHS doctor and in health policy roles with the government, the World Health Organisation and the World Bank, and she has held academic roles at universities in the US, Japan, Hong Kong and London. Layla has been recognized on the Outstanding 100 LGBTQ+ Executives Role Model List as a global role model driving LGBTQ+ inclusion in business. She features regularly in the media, from the Financial Times to BBC Question Time, and her new book Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling: How LGBTQ+ people can thrive and succeed at work was published by Bloomsbury in May.