The Cross Company Allyship Podcast

Addressing the elephant in the room with Page Group

Bolu Faseun has been dedicated to improving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion over the course of her career. Drawing from a rich background in Recruitment Consulting across diverse industries, and having navigated the challenges faced by both organizations and employees in cultivating DEI values, Bolu has worked to drive positive change from within.
Striving to ensure fair representation for underrepresented groups and spearheading initiatives that embed DEI principles into the organizational culture, Bolu continues to tackle issues such as discrimination, limited promotion opportunities, insufficient support for minority candidates, and fostering inclusive work cultures. As a Board Member for the City of London’s Education Board, Bolu also provides strategic advice to enhance inclusivity in affiliated schools.

Integerational trauma with Marie Curie

As psychologist & psychodynamic therapist at Marie Curie, Epiphany Leone has a keen interest in addressing the need for racial competency in both therapeutic training and professional practice. It is this focus that allows her to understand, recognise, address and amplify conversations around intergenerational trauma in people of colour. What is intergenerational trauma?
Epiphany joined our co-host Octavia Maparura to answer that and highlight the work we can all do to better understand it.

Social Mobility and the Golden Thread model with Canary Wharf Group

Canary Wharf has transformed dramatically over the last four decades. From a once derelict area of London, Canary Wharf is now home to some of the most significant financial businesses not just in the UK, but the world.
 
Who’s behind this transformation? And what work is being done to ensure that Canary Wharf remains a place of opportunity for everyone, not just those who come for a more fortunate background. To find out, Amara was joined by Jane Hollinshead and Samantha Sommerville, who work at Canary Wharf Group, to talk about some of the fantastic social initiatives they are responsible for and how they’re changing the game in the social mobility arena.

My network is my health with Marie Curie

As a palliative care physician, who has worked at Marie Curie for 25 years,Dr Karon Ornadel is shining spotlight the institutional racism within palliative care. Keen to tackle the reasons why patients from minoritised ethnic backgrounds do not access palliative and end of life care services, and why staff from minoritised ethnic backgrounds are not represented in higher levels jobs within the palliative care sector, her goal is to enable the provision of accessible and appropriate palliative and end-of-life care services for all. How? By creating powerful networks that bring people together.
 
She joins Amara this week to discuss this and her role as Co-chair of the Marie Curie Ethnic Diversity staff network; her work with the Race Equity Committee for the Association of Palliative Medicine; and her experience as co-founder and co-facilitator of the Hospice UK Race Equity ECHO, a community of practice for people of colour who work in any palliative care sector role (clinical and non-clinical).

The power of your financial health with Close Brothers AM

How much do we recognise the power of our financial health? And how easy is it for women to gain greater control and get theirs in order? As 42% of women worry about money compared to 32% of men, and 40% of women are in low paid jobs, compared to 20% of men, getting control of your financial health as a woman is as crucial as it is challenging, so where can they start?
 
Jeanette Makings, Head of Financial Wellbeing at Close Brothers AM, joins us for a powerful discussion of and exploration into women’s financial health and the actions they can take to take control over their finances for today, and tomorrow.

Reverse mentorship and me with Google

Can you put a price on the value of mentoring? And do we need to redefine our understanding of reverse mentoring? Until recently, Bunmi Sowande had never considered mentoring but when he took part in the Black Googler network through his role within the global tech firm, he soon found himself equipped with the skills and the confidence to become a leader.
 
In this episode, Amara is joined by Bunmi Sowande, Head of Customer Engineering at Google, as he shares his journey of discovering the true power of mentoring and in particular, how businesses can implement a reverse mentor programme to unlock the potential of their employees.

Trust and Legitimacy with Sussex Police

In 2022, Anita Grant made a complete career change and joined Sussex Police as the Assistant Chief Officer for Trust and Legitimacy to focus on engagement, trust, legitimacy, and the appropriate use of powers.
Hear from Anita as she joins our first episode of the Cross Company Allyship Podcast to discuss how she is dedicated to ensuring that Sussex Police becomes more representative, adopting diverse approaches, and ultimately enhancing the effectiveness of policing.

Unified Entrepreneurship with Coca Cola Europe Pacific Partners & Special Olympics Team GB

Everyone will have heard about the Olympics, but how many know about the Special Olympics?
Tom Casson, Head of Projects at Special Olympics Great Britain and Holly Firmin, Senior Community Partnerships Director at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, join the CCAP podcast to explore the work they do together to empower and equip Special Olympians with the entrepreneurial skills they need to succeed in their business endeavours and they're joined by a Special Olympian - Marcus Mason-Williams - who shares his own journey through the Unified Business programme, producing his own children's books and his ambitions of becoming a leading animator to rival Walt Disney.