For Mental Health Awareness Week, we spoke with Linda Bryant, Chief Executive of Together for Mental Wellbeing who shared her thoughts and insights with us on how the conversation around mental distress is increasing but there is still more to be done.
This year’s theme for International Women’s Day is #BreakTheBias. That can mean a lot of different things to different people. We wanted to celebrate women in their career journeys and were delighted to speak with Dallas Pounds, Director of Services at Lymphoma Action.
Are you keen to support people from diverse backgrounds to take up Board positions, ensuring that your board is more accessible and inclusive to young people or racialised minorities and that it brings onboard people with lived experience expertise? Or, are you someone interested in becoming a trustee but not secured your first role yet? If so, see this webinar.
In this short video, we celebrate the journey of Mohamed Osman, who is now Director at Spring Impact, an organisation devoted to supporting, enabling and scaling up great ideas in communities in the UK and all over the world. Find out about his time at the Elton John Foundation, why he made the transition from a career in grant-making to what he does now, and what being a Black leader means to him.
This podcast features Eli Manderson Evans, Senior Social Justice Consultant at Ten Years’ Time, looking at the issue of barriers to boards, particularly for first time trustees, and what can be practically done to remove them. In conversation with Principal Consultant, Board Appointments, Lottie Wihl.
This podcast features Lesley Ndlovu, CEO at African Risk Capacity, an organisation committed to helping African governments improve their capacities to better plan, prepare, and respond to extreme weather events and natural disasters. Find out how his distinguished global finance career is now benefitting the African community both in this role and in his position as a Board Member at international humanitarian organisation, Mercy Corps.
How can organisations facilitate change, both in methods and practically, to increase the representation of those with a disability on leadership teams in the charity sector and beyond? Watch or listen to this panel and podcast with Disability Rights CEO, Kamran Mallick, and Steph Cutler, Founder of Making Lemonade, an organisation devoted to facilitating disability confident and inclusive workplaces.
What is our CEO, Peter Beeby, most proud of at Prospectus? How did he feel starting his career as a gay man from a working class background and what can he and we all do to make the charity sector more equitable for all? Find out in this video, part of our Pride celebrations at Prospectus.
This podcast features Michael Ighodaro, program manager with AVAC and Board Member of Global Black Gay Men Connect, organisers of Global Black Pride. Find out about his journey from Nigeria to America, more on the importance of Global Black Pride as its own standalone day and how we can all be more inclusive as workplaces and societies.
As society continues to respond to equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives, we’re seeing more organisations investing further in their own people strategy, through a growing trend of roles specifically focused on diversity. Here, Managing Director, Andy Tonner, investigates the need for DEI specialists, what you should look for in a diversity lead and how can you empower them to do their job effectively.