SEPTEMBER 14: What Makes a Workplace Feel Welcoming?
Creating workplaces, communities and everyday spaces where everyone feels seen, valued and able to be themselves.
As we come to the end of another week, it feels like a good moment to pause and think about what inclusion actually feels like in our everyday working lives. We have explored the importance of feeling safe enough to speak, the difference between being invited and genuinely heard, and the role leaders can play in creating belonging.
Because a welcoming workplace is created through the everyday experiences that tell us whether our presence matters, whether our opinions are valued and whether there is space for us to contribute in a way that feels authentic. As we reflect on the week, we can look not only at what our organisations are doing, but at the small moments we each have the power to influence, because sometimes the culture of a workplace is shaped just as much by an individual interaction as it is by a formal policy.
So, before we head into a new week, let’s take a little time to reflect on what makes a workplace feel genuinely welcoming, where we see those qualities in our own working environments, and where there might be opportunities for each of us to help create a stronger sense of inclusion and belonging for the people around us.
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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.