SEPTEMBER 19: The Hidden Exclusion of Everyday Spaces
Creating workplaces, communities and everyday spaces where everyone feels seen, valued and able to be themselves.
We often move through our working day without giving much thought to the spaces around us. We walk into the office, join a meeting, make a coffee, sit with colleagues and move from one place to another, assuming that these everyday experiences are more or less the same for everyone. But what feels simple and natural to one person can create an unexpected barrier for another, particularly when our workplaces have been designed around assumptions about how people move, communicate, concentrate and participate.
Some of these barriers are easy to see, while others are hidden within the routines and environments we have simply become used to. They can influence who feels comfortable joining in, who has to make additional adjustments and who may quietly feel that the workplace was designed with somebody else in mind.
Today, we’re exploring those everyday spaces and experiences that can unintentionally exclude, and how becoming more aware of them can help us create workplaces where more people can participate, connect and feel that they truly belong.
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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.