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Woman Someone who identifies with womanhood. See: Gender Roles and Gender Identity. < Back to Glossary

Progress Progressivism is the philosophy that believes it is possible through political action for human societies to improve over time, united on a mission to make our societies more tolerant, compassionate and safer places for all. We have come far in terms of the progression in civil rights we have achieved in recent decades, however, there is always more work to do! See: Civil Rights and Activism. < Back to Glossary

(he/him) Logal Logal is a multi-talented artist and activist who uses his platform to amplify marginalized voices and stories. Born in war-torn Syria to an Assyrian family, he was forced to flee his homeland and navigate a perilous journey to Barcelona. Throughout his journey, Logal remained steadfast in his commitment to social justice, using his voice to advocate for the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals in the Middle East and refugees seeking asylum in Sweden. In addition to his activism, Logal is also a gifted singer-songwriter and writer, using his art to explore themes of identity and intersectionality. He draws upon his personal experiences to create music and literature that speaks to the struggles and triumphs of marginalized communities. Logal is a dynamic speaker and is available to speak on a range of topics, including intersectionality, LGBTQ+ discrimination, identity, and activism. Logal Kako Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... Beyond Calendar Moments: How Organisations Turn Belonging Into a Movement. Community Building 101 | Wellbeing with Panteres Grogues. Our Community Impact: 2025 Year in Review. 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) Valentín Valentín is a yoga, breathwork, and meditation teacher. He loves acrobatics, pole dance, acro yoga, and all movement arts. He's been actively teaching yoga since 2015. His Power Vinyasa classes are known to be high energy, sweaty, and fun. He plays mostly house, electronic, tribal, and trance music during his classes to take you on a musical journey throughout your practice. Valentín Aseyo Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... Beyond Calendar Moments: How Organisations Turn Belonging Into a Movement. Community Building 101 | Wellbeing with Panteres Grogues. Our Community Impact: 2025 Year in Review. 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) Joshua Joshua is a writer, motivational speaker and recruiter seeking to help other individuals build their happiness. As a writer he speaks of his traumatic past, his fight to find and confront himself and heal the wounds of his childhood. As a motivational speakerJoshua proves that people that have once felt voiceless can speak their truth to power and inspire communities worldwide. Finally, as a recruiter Joshua uses his career expertise paired with his personal experiences as a gay Black man in America to create opportunities for individuals who are often looked over based on race, gender and identity. He has a powerful pen, a powerful voice and a powerful heart! Joshua Cruz Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... Beyond Calendar Moments: How Organisations Turn Belonging Into a Movement. Community Building 101 | Wellbeing with Panteres Grogues. Our Community Impact: 2025 Year in Review. 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

Aromantic Someone who does not or experiences limited romantic attraction. See: Asexuality < Back to Glossary

(he/they) Andre Andre is a Queer, Afro-Latine consultant, speaker, and community organizer. Having recently transitioned from social impact consulting Andre now leads culture change programmes at Westminster City Council , where he and his team are revolutionizing the way the organization designs and delivers services, putting residents at the center of every decision. Leveraging his vast network of J.E.D.I. (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) professionals, Andre combines his lived experience, start-up expertise, academic research, and global advocacy work to empower organizations to achieve their full potential. He speaks and consults on issues related to recruitment, leadership, and community building, helping organizations develop effective strategies to attract and retain diverse talent. In his free time, Andre loves exploring the great outdoors and has recently taken up the exhilarating art of New Age Vogueing. Andre Johnsen Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... Beyond Calendar Moments: How Organisations Turn Belonging Into a Movement. Community Building 101 | Wellbeing with Panteres Grogues. Our Community Impact: 2025 Year in Review. 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) Jade Jade is an accomplished executive leader, trusted advisor, and operational strategist, with a wealth of specialist experience in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I). They have an impressive track record of designing and delivering group DEI strategies for leading global organizations, including Natura & Co , Aesop , The Body Shop , and Avon , across 73 countries. As the Non-Exec Director at We Create Space , Jade now provides thought leadership and subject matter expertise to a diverse range of partners, organisations, and clients, delivering keynote speeches, executive development, and leading DEI centres of excellence. Jade is a passionate binary-disrupting changemaker who uses personal courage to ensure each act is a form of resistance. Leveraging their privilege, they aim to create meaningful change and fight against systems of oppression. They are a powerful advocate for anti-racism, workplace allyship, intersectionality, mental health, and wellbeing. In addition, they are committed to speaking about identity, disability, neurodiversity, self-empowerment, culture change, community building, activism, and trauma, and can provide valuable insights on these topics to organizations and individuals seeking to create a more equitable and inclusive world. Jade Fraser Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... Beyond Calendar Moments: How Organisations Turn Belonging Into a Movement. Community Building 101 | Wellbeing with Panteres Grogues. Our Community Impact: 2025 Year in Review. 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

Joy (Queer Joy) Queer Joy is a positive feeling that we get from encountering signs of progress in gender equality and gender diversity, as well as connecting meaningfully with others in our community and being able to occupy spaces unapologetically as ourselves. See: Belonging, Chosen Family and Community. < Back to Glossary

(she/her) Josephine Josephine is a BACP Accredited Counsellor. Her career has centred around helping parents cope with change and supporting people in difficult circumstances such as baby loss, involuntary childlessness and domestic abuse. Since two of Josephine's children came out as transgender in 2015, Josephine has been learning first hand what it is like to face an unexpected change in family circumstances. Her podcast, Gloriously Unready, about her experience was shortlisted for the 2023 Independent Podcast Awards and reviewed by The Guardian. Josephine Hughes Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... Beyond Calendar Moments: How Organisations Turn Belonging Into a Movement. Community Building 101 | Wellbeing with Panteres Grogues. Our Community Impact: 2025 Year in Review. 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

Safety The need for safety was acknowledged as a basic human need by Abraham Maslow in his 'Hierarchy of Needs'. Safety needs represent the second tier in Maslow's hierarchy and these needs include the security of body, of employment, of resources, of morality of family, and of health. People want to experience order, predictability and control in their lives. These needs can be fulfilled by the family and society (e.g. police, schools, business and medical care). Without a sense of physical safety – both individually and more broadly as a community – we are unable to focus on other factors that support our wellbeing. < Back to Glossary

(she/her) Nicole Nicole is a natural community builder who found her passion for collaboration early in her career as a paralegal. After working as a “master connector” at Omnicom Health Group, she created The Black Collective, Omnicom's first Black talent resource group, where she championed diversity and inclusivity. As Director of DE&I at RAPP , Nicole brings her aptitude for building equitable paths forward to success for all marginalized communities, ensuring that all voices are seen and heard. She's a passionate speaker on topics such as community building, leadership, workplace allyship, intersectionality, LGBTQ+ discrimination, mental health, well-being, body positivity, faith, self-empowerment, culture change, activism, parenting, and trauma. Nicole Simpson Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... Beyond Calendar Moments: How Organisations Turn Belonging Into a Movement. Community Building 101 | Wellbeing with Panteres Grogues. Our Community Impact: 2025 Year in Review. 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

Burnout Burnout is a state of physical and emotional exhaustion. It can occur when you experience long-term stress in your job, or when you have worked in a physically or emotionally draining role for a long time. When we feel like we are burning out, it is important that we ask for help from the people around us, so we can protect our wellbeing. To avoid burnout, we must ensure that we set boundaries for ourselves, and acknowledge when we have reached capacity. < Back to Glossary

(she/her) Coda Coda is a dynamic consultant with extensive experience in DEI, partnership management, and creative leadership. She combines advanced analytical and communication skills with a passion for creating inclusive, transformative spaces across corporate, creative, and cultural domains. Coda’s strong ability to influence change and transformation has seen her design and implement inclusion initiatives for FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies such as Google, Standard Chartered, National Grid and Warner Bros Discovery. Coda is also the co-founder of Trans Voices, the UK's first professional music collective for marginalised genders. Under her leadership, the collective has partnered with the Guardian for a specially commissioned documentary film as well as with M&C Saatchi and Olly Alexander for the award winning #borntomix advertising campaign. The collective is currently working on a high profile art installation with a leading British culture institution. Coda Nicolaeff Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... Beyond Calendar Moments: How Organisations Turn Belonging Into a Movement. Community Building 101 | Wellbeing with Panteres Grogues. Our Community Impact: 2025 Year in Review. 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

Masc A person whose gender is perceived or understood as masculine presenting. See: Gender Identity and Gender Expression. < Back to Glossary

Discrimination Discrimination is something that members of the Queer Community, and those who have other marginalised identities are still subject to everyday - this means prejudices are enacted upon, and queer people are often seen struggling with less access to opportunity as well as victims of negative attitudes by others that can result in abuse and unequal power dynamics. < Back to Glossary

(he/him) Vijay Vijay Chohan is a former corporate solicitor who quickly discovered that, as a gay South Asian, he didn't quite "fit in" to the homogenous (straight white middle-class) culture of his workplace. After seven years of enduring this toxic environment, he left and joined OLIVER Agency as an in-house lawyer, in search of a more creative and accepting culture. Following a two-year stint in Legal, Vijay decided to pursue his passion and joined the newly-formed DEI team as Global DEI Partner. Having made waves in Ad-land, Vijay has recently joined British Airways as Inclusion & Diversity Manager, where he hopes to drive sustainable change across aviation. Combining his legal expertise and personal experiences, he now champions inclusion and diversity in the workplace. Vijay is an expert in topics such as anti-racism, intersectionality, workplace allyship, and community building. He also has valuable insights into LGBTQ+ discrimination, mental health, well-being, body positivity, and identity. Vijay Chohan Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... Beyond Calendar Moments: How Organisations Turn Belonging Into a Movement. Community Building 101 | Wellbeing with Panteres Grogues. Our Community Impact: 2025 Year in Review. 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

Family Traditionally, family is defined as a group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit. However, we all know that in present-day, families that resemble the traditional nuclear family ideals are in the minority. While for many Queer people, relationships with their families are important and strong, many who are open about their sexuality, gender identity and gender expression are ostracised by those related to them. This is why 'Chosen Families' are so important for Queer people - relationships we forge with close friends who share similar values to us, and those who are there to support us unconditionally where others perhaps don't. See: Belonging, Community and Coming out. < Back to Glossary

(no pronouns) Tashan Tashan is a coach and workshop facilitator who specializes in empowering underrepresented leaders to bring their authentic selves to the forefront. With nearly a decade of experience in the advertising and media industry, including a role as an Analytics Director, Tashan brings a data-driven approach to their work. Tashan is a passionate advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and is actively involved in advocacy groups such as Outvertising. Tashan draws from their unique perspective as a Black and Queer individual and is dedicated to empowering diverse communities through their work. Additionally, they are an expert in promoting intersectionality and promoting well-being and self-empowerment. Tashan Nicholas Looking for a Guest Speake r ? Get in touch Our Recent Articles... Beyond Calendar Moments: How Organisations Turn Belonging Into a Movement. Community Building 101 | Wellbeing with Panteres Grogues. Our Community Impact: 2025 Year in Review. 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

Incarceration The state of being confined in prison. < Back to Glossary