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Senior Ethnic Minority Leaders - Leadership Exchange Series

We recently launched our new learning and development series, 'The Leadership Exchange', with our first session featuring Serena Chana, hosted by Ishy Akhtar. The aim of these conversations is to create honest discussions around leadership, career growth and lived experiences, while spotlighting senior leaders from ethnic minority backgrounds. Serena shared honest reflections on stepping into leadership, navigating workplace expectations, and the pressure many women face around being “likeable” at work. Her advice on finding managers and advocates who genuinely champion your growth really stood out to me. I loved helping organise this and feel really proud to chair a network that works to amplify ethnic minority voices while creating opportunities for learning and development. Huge thanks to the rest of the committee for making this happen. We’re always looking to feature more senior leaders from ethnic minority backgrounds in future sessions. If that sounds like you, or someone you know, I’d love to hear from you. #Leadership #DiversityAndInclusion #CareerGrowth #RaceNetwork

HR & DEI Leaders Canada - Neurodiversity Beyond Awareness Training

If you lead HR, DEI or people strategy in Canada, I have a question for you. Since January, I've been hearing directly from leaders on their experiences with neurodiversity at work. 🧠 We've talked about what's working to support employees who identify as neurodivergent, what's not, where do things feel stuck and what's one thing that would make a real difference for moving beyond awareness. Some of what I've heard has been expected. Some has surprised me. One thing keeps coming up: "𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸-𝗯𝗼𝘅", 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿. I planned to wrap these conversations in March but they're too valuable to stop. If you're an HR, DEI or executive leader at a Canadian organization, I'd love to hear from you. We can meet over Zoom, or I can send you a link to the questions. This is an invitation to speak from your experiences, and you keep control over what you share. Everything stays anonymous and confidential. My DMs are open to you, with gratitude. --- Image description: A dark green background with words in white that read: " 'Check-box' awareness training isn't the answer." There's an orange highlight over the words "isn't the answer". At the bottom there's a photo of Jackie Connelly, her name and "Coaching That Belongs" logo.

Autistic Theatregoers - Relaxed Performances & Disability Access

Have you had your access to theatre transformed by changes in disability access? As an autistic theatre blogger and journalist myself, I'm currently working on a piece regarding relaxed performances and other disability access developments - I would love to hear from you if you've been positively affected, so please DM me. #theatre #disability #disabilityadvocacy #diversity #inclusion

Canadian Founders, AI Researchers & Community Builders - Documentary

📣 📣📣 Calling founders, government policymakers, Indigenous leaders, and community builders. 📣 📣 📣 There are people across this country doing extraordinary work in AI. AI researchers building novel models To founders building solving problems with AI To community builders supporting innovation And most of them are not in the conversation. Not yet. I am making a documentary to change that. 🎬 Building Canadian AI centers the voices of the people actively shaping Canada's artificial intelligence future and the communities with the most to gain from it. The global AI race is happening right now, at full speed, and Canada has an extraordinary opportunity, a wide pool of talent, and a responsibility to show what AI leadership looks like when it reflects the full diversity of this country. I am looking for voices across these communities to share their perspective on screen: → Black founders and entrepreneurs → Indigenous business leaders and knowledge keepers → AI researchers and academics → Women in tech & AI → Government officials and policymakers → Community builders → Newcomers and immigrants → Youth leaders If you are one of these people, or you know someone whose story belongs in this film, I want to hear from you. 🙌 Send me a direct message. Tell me what you are building, what you believe, and why your voice belongs in this conversation. ⏳PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR INTEREST BY APRIL 30TH! #BuildingCanadianAI #CanadianAI #BlackInAI #IndigenousInTech #AIEquity #CanadianTech #Edmonton #Documentary #AIFilm #RepresentationMatters #InclusiveAI #WomenInAI #AIGovernance #CanadaSovereign

Academics With Tourette Syndrome - Academic Life & Lived Experience

One of the great privileges of talking to people for my podcast has been to expose the diversity of neurodiversity. Not only between different “labels“, but also within them. Seeing the way that people have been affected, and have overcome this, with and without support. With this in mind I’d very much like to talk to someone who is in the academic world (or has been) living with #TouretteSyndrome. If you know of or are someone who would be willing to tell us what it’s like and share their/your experience please drop me a line you can reach me through here or the link below

Autistic People & Families in Beirut - Stress, Services & AI Support

I'm beginning work on a reporting project I've wanted to do for a long time, and I need help finding the right people. The question at the center: why do we forget autistic people so easily, especially in times of crisis? I'm reporting from Beirut, on how autistic children and adults — and the families, therapists, and educators around them — have been navigating stress and anxiety during a period of sustained conflict. I also want to understand what's happening with the new category of AI tools being marketed to support autistic users, and whether any of it reaches people here. I want to report this with care and with the community. I'd be grateful to connect with: • Advocates in Lebanon or the diaspora • Parents, caregivers, siblings • Clinical psychologists, behavioral and occupational therapists working in autism • Special educators and school counselors • Researchers working on AI and autism, especially anyone building for Arabic-speaking users • NGOs and community organizations serving autistic people in Lebanon — SKILD, Lebanese Autism Society, Arcenciel, and others Conversations can be on or off the record, in English or Arabic. Autistic voices are especially welcome. If this touches your work or your life, or you know someone it does, I'd love to hear from you. DMs are open or reach me at [email redacted]. A share helps it travel further than my own network — the people I most need to hear from may not be here yet. #Autism #Neurodiversity #Lebanon #AI #MentalHealth

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