Who we are - Our People

Our team is drawn from a wide range of backgrounds and everyone at PTI has achieved something special in their lives - whether in sport, in the arts, in business or academically. That’s because special results tend to be generated by special people.

Our founding partners

Simon Kettleborough

Simon Kettleborough is a founder-director of Performance Through Inclusion and specialises in various aspects of Diversity and Inclusion, principally measurement, business case design and strategy development. Over the last four years, Simon has worked extensively to develop InclusionIndex™ and InclusionAudit™, PTI’s proprietary diagnostic software systems. Simon has spent well over half of his career in consulting, both with PTI and as a strategy consultant with Arthur D. Little in London.

He has worked with, trained and coached private and public sector clients across the Automotive, Energy, Engineering, Financial Services, Mining, Media, Criminal Justice, Health and Consumer goods sectors.

Before consulting, Simon spent 4 years working for Diageo in a number of strategy, commercial and people development roles in the UK, Europe, Asia and the USA. He was also one of the founding directors of guinnessworldrecords.com in 2000, Diageo’s first Internet start-up business.

Simon has a BA Honours degree in Modern Languages and Music from Durham University, a Postgraduate Diploma in Management with Distinction from Leicester University and an MBA with Distinction from Warwick Business School and he is currently reading an MSc in Sustainable Development at London University.

Tony Burnett

Tony Burnett is a founder-director of Performance Through Inclusion. Tony has worked with some of the worlds largest organisations across Europe and Africa, developing measurable solutions to Diversity issues that positively impact the performance of the organisation. Prior to founding PTI, Tony was Diversity Manager, Europe for Ford Motor Company. At Ford, Tony worked across all European markets on training and development projects, however his most notable achievement was the design and implementation of the complete European Diversity strategy for the company.

Before joining Ford, Tony spent 5 years with Guinness Great Britain, latterly as Head of People Development for the UK. In addition to his HR experience, Tony also has a wealth of experience in Commercial roles having spent 10 years in Sales & Marketing with Guinness and Jeyes Group plc.