Learning about what works in sustaining proportional representation of women on boards opens conversations about other types of diversity in leadership positions. Last year, the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the British Academy of Management produced Delivering Diversity, focusing on BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) representation in the management pipeline, urging business to ‘break the silence’ about ethnicity at work. The Parker Review published its final recommendations in 2017, urging FTSE 100 boards to ‘go beyond one by 2021’ with regards to BAME directors. Dr Adedoyin Atewologun (PhD in the School of Management 2011, MRes Management Research 2008), Monica Chadha (Residential Executive Development Programme 2013), Vice Chair of Queen Mary University of London’s governing body, Ann Francke, CEO of the CMI, and David Tyler, Chair, J Sainsbury Plc and CO-Chair of the Parker Committee discussed if we have sufficiently broken the silence on ethnicity and colour in UK boards and how have Chairs, directors and search firms responded to this?