SEPTEMBER 29: The ripple effect of making someone feel welcome
Creating workplaces, communities and everyday spaces where everyone feels seen, valued and able to be themselves.
There are certain moments of welcome that stay with us long after they have happened, perhaps because someone made an unfamiliar place feel a little easier, took the time to help us find our way or simply made us feel that our presence mattered. We may not remember exactly what was said, but we remember the feeling of being received with warmth rather than uncertainty.
What is especially lovely about those moments is that their impact does not necessarily end with us. The way we are treated can influence the way we treat others, meaning that one thoughtful interaction can quietly travel from person to person and become part of something much bigger.
Today, we’re exploring the ripple effect of making someone feel welcome, and how the experiences we create for others can shape the culture around us in ways we may never get to see.
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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.