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Trigger In mental health terms, a trigger refers to something that affects your emotional state, often significantly, by causing extreme overwhelm or distress. A trigger affects your ability to remain present in the moment. It may bring up specific thought patterns or influence your behavior. < Back to Glossary

'Who am I?' is an LGBTQ+ Leadership Programme. Each virtual retreat explores your unique identity as a Queer Leader through a sequence of experiential and interactive workshops, carefully designed around tried and tested psychological and holistic practices. Who Am I ? Join a Leadership Retreat About the series Who Am I? SELF-LEADERSHIP PROGRAMMES FOR LGBTQ+ CHANGE MAKERS Join us (virtually) as we take you through a unique holistic process of self-enquiry and exploration. View dates and book Join mailing list Your safety About the programmes. Each ‘virtual retreat’ explores your unique identity through a sequence of experiential and trauma-informed workshops , carefully designed around tried and tested psychological and holistic practices . These transformative techniques elicit a deeper connection and greater understanding of ‘self’. Studies show that this work is most impactful with groups of individuals who have had similar or shared experiences. For this reason we have created three bespoke programmes, dates and teams, each dedicated to specific identity groups within the community: GBTQ, LBTQ and TQ+ . Please choose whichever programme resonates with you the most and download an invitation pack below for more information. GBTQ LBTQ TQ+ PROGRAMME STATISTICS Participants include senior execs from these highly regarded companies: President at UN Globe "This programme is essential to equip future leaders and shapers within our community." Diversity Manager at ENEI “Probably the best ten hours I’ve spent learning about myself.” Managing Editor at Channel 4 "A genuine mind-opening experience that has stuck with me ever since." Editor at BBC News "The most amazing thing about the programme - was realising how much I needed it." Senior Comms at Hyatt “Cathartic and empowering.” Associate Director at EY "I felt like a weight had been lifted from my shoulders." Anchor 1 Any questions? For more information or enquiries please don’t hesitate to get in touch . Otherwise use the booking links provided below. View dates and book Request more info Please note - we do welcome subsidy requests from those individuals who are not being funded by their organisations or networks.

(she/they) Ashley Ashley's research critiques how power, economics, and politics influence social change, while advocating for imagination and creativity as alternatives to neoliberal market logics. As a full-time professor of communications, Ashley is continuing to develop projects rooted in place-based pedagogy, urbanism, public intellectualism and equity. Her recent project, Home x Work, has been praised for its phenomenological originality. This project does not perceive the city as a blank campus upon which we can experiment, but rather, aims to use collaborative measures to dissect and render visible the various social and material flows that both (re)produce hegemonic power structures and dismantle them. Ashley Marshall Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

(they/them) Chris Chris is a trans neurodivergent Accredited Psychotherapist, Advanced Accredited GSRD Therapist, and DEI consultant. As the Founder and Managing Director of The Queer Therapist , a UK-based online therapy service, they provide GSRD (gender, sexuality, relationship diversity) therapy and neurodivergent affirming therapy. Chris is also the Lead Psychotherapist at Voda.co, the LGBTQIA mental health app, Clinical Associate for Pink Therapy , and Inclusivity Board Advisor for Soho House . They have expertise in topics such as language and terminology, workplace allyship, intersectionality, LGBTQ+ history and discrimination, mental health and wellbeing, identity, neurodiversity, culture change, activism, trauma, and sexual health. Chris Sheridan Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

(he/him) Aditya Aditya (Adi) is an experienced Marketing Strategy Director and proud immigrant, currently based in south London. As a South Asian Queer person, he has found strength in his cultural heritage and is passionate about advocating for intersectional identities. Adi is also a talented Hindi/Urdu poet and lives with his loving English partner. He has a personal connection to mental health, as he lives with complex-PTSD, and is committed to promoting well-being and self-empowerment. Adi is a strong advocate for anti-racism, workplace allyship, and trauma-informed care. He is also an expert in leadership and faith-based activism, and actively supports Queer POC in their careers. Adi Sinha Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

(she/her) Sophie Sophie has been an advocate for women and HIV for almost 2 decades ensuring gender visibillty and health equity in the HIV response and that women's sexual reproductive health and rights are achieved. She has provided policy advice to public health organisations, NHS England , NICE, NGOs and academics, WHO and UN Women advocating both nationally and internationally.Sophie’s work includes advocacy on PrEP knowledge and equity in access for all women, and is the current co chair on the London PrEP Equity working group. She is CEO of the Sophia Forum whichexists to empower all women living with HIV to reach their full potential, and to ensure their voices are heard and their needs prioritised within the health sector and wider society. Sophie Strachan Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

Plus A way of speaking about the variations of marginalised sexual orientations and gender identities that might fall under the LGBTQ+ acronym. < Back to Glossary

Perfectionism Perfectionism, in psychology, is a broad personality style characterized by a person's concern with striving for flawlessness and perfection and is accompanied by critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others' evaluations. Perfectionism drives people to be concerned with achieving unattainable ideals or unrealistic goals that often lead to many forms of adjustment problems such as depression, anxiety, OCD, OCPD and low self-esteem. When you don’t feel accepted for who you are while you’re still developing, it can lead to constant feelings of worthlessness and insecurity in adulthood. To overcome the feeling of being “not good enough,” perfectionism can emerge as a defence mechanism. Proving yourself to others, whether it’s as the most talented, smart or successful, becomes a means of keeping yourself safe. Left unchecked, perfectionism can create a cycle of anxiety and depression that makes achievement even harder. This, in turn, fuels greater feelings and fears of inadequacy. You’ll suddenly find yourself trapped trying to be the best while constantly feeling the worst. See: Achievement, Adversity, Burnout and Resilience. < Back to Glossary

Lived Experience Personal knowledge about the world gained through direct, first-hand involvement in everyday events rather than through representations constructed by other people. Lived experience is an invaluable resource, both in helping us navigate our lives, but also as a tool for educating others. < Back to Glossary

Community Development Community development is often linked with community work or community planning, and may involve stakeholders, foundations, governments, or contracted entities including non-government organisations (NGOs), universities or government agencies to progress the social well-being of local, regional and, sometimes, national communities. More grassroots efforts, called community building or community organizing, seek to empower individuals and groups of people by providing them with the skills they need to effect change in their own communities. < Back to Glossary

(she/her) Chloë Chloë is an award winning founder, creative, dynamic social impact consultant, chef, and entrepreneur who has dedicated much of her 20+ year career campaigning for inclusion and equality in all spaces, whether in-house at agency level, corporate organisations or through wider community engagement. She was a ADCOLOR 2024 Rockstar of the Year Nominee, Advertising Week Europe 2024 The Future is Female Winner and named on the 2024 Campaign Magazine UK A-list. In April 2023 she founded ‘It Takes A Village Collective’ - a global hub for Black women in advertising, media, marketing and comms whose mission is to ensure that 1 in 5 people in adland will be a Black woman by 2028. Chloë Davies Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

(he/him) Luca Luca is an Italian public speaker, author, and facilitator, who has been living in Barcelona since 2006. After two decades in the corporate business sector, he shifted his focus to academia and consultancy, blending the analytical perspective of engineering with humanities-driven soft skills. In 2016, he joined BCN Pride Toastmasters, a queer-inclusive community, where he has delivered over 100 speeches, moderated panels, and organized events. He is passionate about piano playing, storytelling, and the power of beauty. His keywords are: creativity, innovation, and strategic planning. Luca Magagni Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

(they/them) Raven Raven is a transformational life coach based in the UK, and a passionate believer in the innate brilliance of every human being. They work with storytelling and creativity to empower people to rewrite the stories around and within them, so they can live life courageously and on purpose. Endlessly curious, and fascinated by the overlap between the stories we tell ourselves and the stories that society tells us, Raven loves to bring people together and build community connections that make us all stronger. Alongside 20+ years of experience in community arts events, mentoring and networking, they are also a textile artist, parent, forest bathing guide, qualified life coach, caterer, and NHS worker, and founder of Genderqueer Brunch - a trans peer support meet up in Sheffield. Raven Nielsen Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

Gender Gender refers to the range of socially-constructed characteristics and behaviours pertaining to femininity and masculinity, with particular reference to social and cultural differences between groups of people rather than biological ones. < Back to Glossary

(he/him) Anick Anick is a multidisciplinary Creative Consultant, Writer, and Researcher. Anick has a strong focus on human rights, he combines his extensive expertise with a deep passion for creating captivating content. He is the co-founder of intersex-led charity InterconnectedUK, and he actively works towards positive change for those living with uncommon variations in their sex development. Anick is dedicated to celebrating diversity, sparking the imagination, and fostering greater understanding through storytelling. With a degree in Law, and further studies in Social Work, Childhood, Children's Rights, and Psychology, Anick also has an extensive background encompassing media, education, and nonprofits. Anick Soni Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

(she/her) Sara Sara has over 8 years of experience in the Tech Recruitment sector across the EU, managing Talent Selection Teams. After her successful stint in the corporate world, she decided to embark on an entrepreneurship adventure with two talented women. Together, they founded TRech International - a Global Training Incubator for Recruitment, where Sara currently serves as the Learning & Development Partner. With her wealth of experience and expertise, Sara is committed to creating a unique learning experience that helps individuals and organizations thrive in the recruitment industry. Sara Alvarez Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... DEI Trends in 2025: Practitioner Wellbeing and Career Sustainability. UNLOCK | Queer Leadership 101 with Pius Kennedy Harnessing Queer Joy as an Act of Resistance. Create Space for Change. We work with 100+ Businesses, ERGs and Change-Leaders providing bespoke DEI solutions. Through consultancy we design shared learning experiences, produce insights and craft content that support individuals with strengthening their roles as change-agents within their communities and organisations. Discover our bespoke corporate solutions... Work with us

T4T Initialism standing for Trans for Trans. Referring to trans people who date other trans people, but also used to describe inter-community solidarity between transgender people. < Back to Glossary

Intersectionality Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, Intersectionality originally applied to her studies around the compounded disadvantage Women of Colour faced during the American Civil Rights Movement. Now being used more widely as an analytical framework for understanding how aspects of a person's social and political identities compound to create different layers of discrimination and privilege. Intersectionality identifies multiple factors of advantage and disadvantage across different characteristics such as Race, Class, Sexuality, Marital Status, Disability, Gender, Faith etc. See: Identity. < Back to Glossary

ENM (Ethical Non-Monogamy) ENM is an umbrella term for romantic relationships that are not exclusive between two people. Ethical Non-Monogamy must have the consent of all parties involved and communication of expectations and boundaries is essential. < Back to Glossary

Anti-Racism Anti-racism encompasses a range of ideas and political actions which are meant to counter racial prejudice, systemic racism, and the oppression of specific racial groups. It is important that we all practice Anti-Racism within the Queer Community, as many of the biggest changemakers who have helped afford us the civil rights we have today, have been People of Colour. < Back to Glossary