Nothing Without Us

You join me on a walk today, to discuss how connecting to nature and moving your body can not only benefit your mental and physical health, but also improved your leadership.

This May, I'm offering a short series of five episodes about rest and connection. Each one will be a bit of a microdose of resistance, of re-enchantment.

This May, I'm offering a short series of five episodes. Each one will be a bit of a microdose of resistance, of re-enchantment.
This week is all about journaling and features an extract from my book, Lighting the Way.

You can buy Lighting the Way here  https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/lighting-the-way-9781472972460/

and download my course, Finding Peace, here https://beingluminary.thinkific.com/pages/resources

This month, we'll be pressing pause on some of the topic based approaches that we've had on the podcast, because the work as it stands, DEI work, equity work, is designed almost perfectly to keep us spinning. I have this sense that news cycles are accelerating and there is a feeling about the urgency of our time, which feels like it is knocking and banging at the door and demanding that we do something about it. And maybe the way that we re-enchant equity work, is to resist the urgency.

So I'm offering a series this May, five episodes, and each one will be a bit of a microdose of resistance, of re-enchantment.
This week is all about wellness.

This week, I'm talking to Mandy Coalter, author, coach, HR professional, about why she is passionate about training school leaders to create inclusive workplaces.

Mandy is the Founder of ‘Talent Architects’ with a simple mission; helping schools become great places for pupils to learn by being great places for adults to work. Her book ‘Talent Architects; how to make your school a great place to work’ was published in 2018. 

Mandy has previously worked in the NHS, Local Government, the Charity sector and with schools. She is also a very experienced Board Director and advisor on aspects of corporate governance. She is a Trustee/Director of the Diocese of Coventry MAT.

Find Mandy on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandy-coalter-484360a/?originalSubdomain=uk
Buy her book and find out more about her work at https://www.talentarchitects.org.uk/

Mandy also mentioned Putting Staff First, by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley during our conversation
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Putting-Staff-First-blueprint-revitalising/dp/1912906848

We'll soon be launching a recruitment and retention framework, which is going to be part of our excellence in equity award.
Find out more about our Excellence in Equity Award here https://www.beingluminary.co.uk/excellence-in-equity-award

Nothing Without Us is presented by Angie Browne from Being Luminary. It is edited and produced by Emily Crosby Media.

In light of the UK Supreme Court's ruling this week, re-defining what 'woman' means in UK law, this week, I'm re-issuing extracts from my conversation with Yee Won Chong.

Yee Won is a strategist, trainer and speaker, and along with his partner, Brooks Nelson, created the film, Trans Dudes with Lady Cancer. We talk about the discussions the film has generated - about how we can make an effort to be more humane in the way that we intentionally create welcoming spaces for everyone, especially trans people.

You can find out more about Yee Won on his website - http://yeewonchong.org/ 
See the film at https://www.transdudeswithladycancer.org/

We'll soon be launching a recruitment and retention framework, which is going to be part of our excellence in equity award.
Find out more about our Excellence in Equity Award here https://www.beingluminary.co.uk/excellence-in-equity-award

Nothing Without Us is presented by Angie Browne from Being Luminary. It is edited and produced by Emily Crosby Media.

Continuing our deep dive into recruitment and retention through the lens of DEI, this week we're looking at the CQ, the Cultural Quotient. 

Cultural quotient asks, what kind of culture are we inviting people into? What stories or rituals or values are we reproducing or are we disrupting through our recruitment? And are we bringing people in? Are we onboarding and inducting people nto a culture that welcomes them or are we bringing them on, onboarding them, inducting them into a culture that quietly asks them to adapt or assimilate or make themselves smaller?

Find the downloadable pdf that accompanies this episode here 

We'll soon be launching a recruitment and retention framework, which is going to be part of our excellence in equity award.
Find out more about our Excellence in Equity Award here https://www.beingluminary.co.uk/excellence-in-equity-award

Nothing Without Us is presented by Angie Browne from Being Luminary. It is edited and produced by Emily Crosby Media.

This week, I'm talking to my good friend and colleague, Claire Banks, Deputy CEO of Olympus Academy Trust, about her career and work.

Claire is Deputy CEO of Olympus Academy Trust. Before becoming Director of Education for The Olympus Academy Trust, a cross-phase multi-academy trust in north Bristol, Claire Banks was a head teacher for nine years in an inner-city primary school. Throughout her career she has been interested in social and emotional learning and school climate, which has led to her work on leadership culture. Claire now works on curriculum design and school improvement in a system leadership capacity, offering school-to-school support to school trusts.

Find Clare on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-banks-0ba9b8160/
Read her book, A Curious Curriculum: Teaching foundation subjects well by Mick Waters , Claire Banks 
https://www.crownhouse.co.uk/a-curious-curriculum

We'll soon be launching a recruitment and retention framework, which is going to be part of our excellence in equity award.
Find out more about our Excellence in Equity Award here https://www.beingluminary.co.uk/excellence-in-equity-award

Nothing Without Us is presented by Angie Browne from Being Luminary. It is edited and produced by Emily Crosby Media.

Continuing our deep dive into recruitment and retention through the lens of DEI, this week we're looking at the SQ, the Spiritual Quotient. 

 It might feel like there's a bit of a question mark over whether or how spirituality might have anything to do with job applications or interviews, but I would like you to bear with me because I think this is one of the most important of all of the episodes in this series, but also it's one of the most important dimensions of the framework.

We'll soon be launching a recruitment and retention framework, which is going to be part of our excellence in equity award.
Find out more about our Excellence in Equity Award here https://www.beingluminary.co.uk/excellence-in-equity-award

Nothing Without Us is presented by Angie Browne from Being Luminary. It is edited and produced by Emily Crosby Media.

We interrupt our current series on recruitment and retention to address a shocking and saddening recent event in education - the rascist and islamophobic reaction to the appoint of Sir Mufti Hamid Patel to Interim Chair of OFSTED.

I'm joined by my good friend, Sufian Sadiq, Director of Talent and Teaching School at Chiltern Learning Trust, to discuss the man himself, the reaction to his appointment, how it is felt by Muslims throughout education and what it says about the myth of meritocracy in British education.

Nothing Without Us is presented by Angie Browne from Being Luminary. It is edited and produced by Emily Crosby Media.

Continuing our deep dive into recruitment and retention through the lens of DEI, this week we're looking at the EQ, the Emotional Quotient. 

I'll be asking you to think about your emotional response to a passage during the second half of the episode, so make sure you have a pen and a piece of paper handy.

We'll soon be launching a recruitment and retention framework, which is going to be part of our excellence in equity award.
Find out more about our Excellence in Equity Award here https://www.beingluminary.co.uk/excellence-in-equity-award

Nothing Without Us is presented by Angie Browne from Being Luminary. It is edited and produced by Emily Crosby Media.