OCTOBER 3: The commUnities that shaPe us
Using lived experience to celebrate our communities, share their stories and build greater understanding.
Throughout our lives, we become part of many different communities. Some are inherited through family, culture and heritage, while others grow through friendships, work, shared interests and experiences, often becoming important to us without us even noticing it happening.
As we continue Honouring Our Communities this October, we’re exploring how these different connections shape who we are, what we carry with us and what we eventually pass on to others. Read the full blog to discover why the communities we become part of leave their mark on us, just as we leave our mark on them.
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Black History Month: The Audacity To Occupy Space: Reimagining Leadership Through an Equity Lens
Tuesday 06 October 2026
12:00 - 13:00
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This webinar explores the structural and cultural conditions that determine who is seen as a leader, and challenges how institutions define, reward, and retain leadership. It asks what it takes to occupy leadership spaces when they were not designed to be inclusive especially for racially marginalised people and what must change within organisations to make leadership genuinely equitable.
This session is not about ‘inviting’ people into leadership. It’s about interrogating the gatekeeping practices, racialised expectations, and hierarchies of legitimacy that shape who gets to lead and how they are treated when they do.