Race Equality deep dive: can we talk about race? March 2023
1 March 2023
This interactive online event featured examples of how leaders foster safe spaces and develop allyship.
Race equality
This interactive online event featured examples of how leaders are:
- enabling conversations about race in their organisations
- fostering safe spaces
- developing allyship.
Find the presentation slides here.
I am a white women, I have never professed to be an expert in culture or in any of the technicalities about culture…I have created a team of people who are experts in their field and my job is to not be the person that knows the answer to everything but to listen, hear, be approachable and be a driving force in our organisation, at board level, to maintain the commitment [towards anti-racism]… Cath Byford, deputy CEO and chief people officer at Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Listen to our Q&A, where delegates ask questions on:
- How leaders have used their white privilege to challenge the processes and structures that perpetuate racism
- What interview questions you would ask a new Trust Chair, if you were on the panel
- How board members have held themselves and their colleagues to account
- Engaging middle managers in leading on race equality to really change the experience of front-line staff.
Chair: Sim Scavazza – non-executive director, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (North West London Acute Provider Collaborative), and non-executive director and deputy chair – Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West ICB.
Speakers:
Tanya Carter – chief people officer, East London NHS Foundation Trust
Eniola Oladipo – head of support and transformation, NHS England
Cath Byford – deputy chief executive officer and chief people officer, Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust
Paul Devlin – chair, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.