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The Elephant in the Room

The Elephant in the Room Podcast is a curated safe space to have uncomfortable conversations about the pervasive inequalities in society and our workplaces. The idea of the podcast was born from my sense of conflict about identity, self and the concept of privilege and fuelled by my own need to understand how my overlapping identities and experiences had impacted and would continue to impact my life chances. Two years ago I decided to ‘opt out’ to find my own purpose and focus on passion projects

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21: Ben Foulkes: The future of work

The Elephant in the Room ·

2021/04/08

ShownotesReams have been written in the recent past about the future of work. But, long before COVID upended beliefs on WFH and remote working, Hoxby founded in 2015 had a vision to create a world of work without bias; without the barriers to inclusivity created by the 9-5, one size fits all system. Today, this hugely successful social experiment has a workforce of over 1000 people spread across 30 countries and works with some of the world's biggest businesses including Unilever, Merck, Amazon

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20: Dr Doyin Atewologun: Understanding the dynamics...

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2021/04/01

For everyone working to tackle issues around inequality and racism it has been a frustrating week so the long Easter weekend is just what we need to recharge and renew our faith in what we do. The proverbial ray of sunshine today was listening to Dr Doyin Atewologun in the 20th episode (yay 20 already) of The Elephant in the Room podcast.She has a long list of accomplishments to her credit including being an honorary fellow at Trinity College, Oxford; a former Director of Gender, Leadership &

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19: Dr Bola Olabisi: Championing Women Inventors and...

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2021/03/25

Dr Bola Olabisi my guest on The Elephant in the Room podcast is the founder of the Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network. She set it up in 1998 in recognition of the challenges that women face in bringing commercially viable products to market. Over the past two decades she has worked tirelessly to spotlight inventors and innovators across the world. I was lucky to be a part of her journey when she launched the awards in Africa a long time ago and was privileged to be invited to be a judge

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18 A radical approach to tackling diversity and...

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2021/03/18

ShownotesAn FT reviewer described the book as having ‘the most refreshing approach to diversity…. So, when Pooja Sachdev co-author of 'Rewire: A Radical Approach to Tackling Diversity and Difference' agreed to be a guest I had a long list of questions for her. It was essential reading for the programme I did at INSEAD on gender diversity and I was fascinated with the essential premise behind the book.In this episode Pooja Sachdev talks about taking a broader, braver and more systemic approachto

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17 Sereena Abbassi: Culture and Inclusion

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2021/03/11

LINKEDINI met her early last year at F1 Recruitment’s Let’s Be Bold About Race event which she was hosting as worldwide Head of Culture & Inclusion M&C Saatchi. So, I was totally chuffed when she accepted my invitation to be a guest on The Elephant in the RoomPreviously as aDiversity & Inclusion expert she has advised the U.K. Advertising & Media Industry Diversity Taskforce and the IPA's Leadership Talent Group.In this episode she talks about 👇🏾👉🏾 Being comfortable with her

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16 Advita Patel a rebel with a cause, Co-founder A...

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2021/03/04

ShowNotesAdvita Patel my guest on The Elephant in the Room Podcast is on a mission to empower women of colour in the PR Industry. A Board member of the CIPR and founder of Comms Rebel, last year she founded A Leader Like me with her co-founder Priya Bates to help career ambitious women of colour.Later in the year the duo launched the Diversity in PR conference(Oct 2020) and Diversity in Action conference(Mar2021) and have ambitious plans to broaden the programme by opening it to other groups.In this

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15 Carmel O'Toole: Diversity and social mobility

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2021/02/26

Shownotes:For the 15th Episode of The Elephant in the Room podcast, my guest is Carmel O’Toole. Carmel is the daughter of Irish migrants, left school at 18 to work as a journalist, was a part of the world’s first televised regeneration project at Channel 4, and now works as a lecturer in PR with Sheffield Halam University. Her research interests are local & regional media and crisis communications. She has also co-authored a book with Adrian Roxan - Local Democracy, Journalism and Public

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14 Penny Anderson: Taking responsibility for your...

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2021/02/18

Show NotesMany of you are familiar with @kiwigirl in UK. For this episode of the podcast we have a vocal cheerleader for school leavers as my guest. Penny Anderson is also Client Director ofReputation Intelligence at Kantar Media. In this episode Penny talks about her own Elephant in the room, her path to leadership, diversity & inclusion, role models, mental health and well being during the pandemic, learning to accept who she is and strategies to inclusion in the workplaceListen to the full

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13 Shubha Menon: The writer who dropped 'copy' from...

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2021/02/11

SHOW NOTESShe is the author of ‘The Second Coming’ a romantic fiction, published by Harper Collins India; and ‘Resilience - stories of Muslim Women’ published by FrontPage. I recently caught up Shubha Menon to discuss her journey from being a copy writer to author of a chicklit; pivoting to a different genre for her second book and her upcoming passion project. In this episode she talks about the role of Buddhism in bringing calm into her life; the taboo around bipolar disorder; her difficult

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28:39

012 Being purpose driven with Lorraine Lewis of The...

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2021/02/04

SHOW NOTES:I launched The Elephant in the Room podcast last year as a part of my learning journey to be more intentional and purpose driven. For most parts I love it, but as any podcast host will admit, it is hard work. It requires discipline to turn up week after week, and just the sheer number of hours it takes to put an episode together, can sometimes be a drag. However, I chose to do it, because I love it.My guest for the 12th episode Lorraine Lewis knows a thing or two about turning up day

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011 Branding, cultural appropriation and stereotyping...

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2021/01/28

Show NotesI enjoy recording podcast with all my guests but this one was particularly full of laughter, learning and insights. For the 11th episode of #TheElephantintheRoom I interviewed Professor Jonathan A.J. Wilson, a Professor of Brand Strategy & Culture at Regent's University London, Editor-in-Chief of theJournal of Islamic Marketing and the author of ‘Halal Branding’. Born and raised in Manchester, Professor Wilson is the son of a white Scottish father and Black Carribbean mother in a

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29:35

010 The Honey Hunters of the Nilgiris with Mathew...

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2021/01/21

ShownotesHe is a pioneer championing the honey hunters from the Kurumba and other tribes in the Nilgiri Biosphere in the Western ghats for the last decade. Mathew John, Managing Director of Last Forest Enterprise is helping protect indigenous communities who have been sustainably harvesting honey for thousands of years from honey cliffs and bee nesting trees. As asocial enterprise its success is embedded in its ability to bring together the triad of good development: conservation, livelihoods and

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009 Challenging the status quo and making a...

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2021/01/14

Show NotesMy Guest on todays show is AmandaFone a marcomm and sports marketing recruitment veteran and the founder of F1 Recruitment. She has been championing inclusion, diversity and social mobility long before they became buzz words. I met Amanda a couple of years back and was struck by her empathy, her deep belief in supporting her candidates on their journey and her activism on inclusion. She is someone who believes in walking the talk and has actually committed a substantial percentage of F1

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008 Race and Ethnicity Equity in the PR Industry with...

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2021/01/07

SHOWNOTESMy guest on the 8th episode of the #TheElephantintheRoom podcast is Barbara Phillips, Chair of the Race and Ethnicity Board(REEB). REEB was set up last year by the PRCA in response to Black Lives Matter(BLM) to address issues of racial inequality within our Industry. Her ambition is to ensure that black, asian and ethnic minority talent in the industry are able to flourish and thrive in their career. She is razor focused on REEB Terms of Reference having already delivered guidelines on the

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007 Feminism, caste and patriarchy in India -...

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2021/01/03

She is a doyenne of Indian feminism, a poet, author, feminist and development activist.She is also the South Asia co-ordinator for ‘One Billion Rising’. So, I was thrilled and honoured to have Kamla Bhasin as a guest on my podcast. The most important takeaway for me was the power of alliances local and global to address inequalities in society/the world. Also, that it takes more than legislation to bring about social change.In this episode we speak about her journey to conscious feminism 👇🏾👉🏾

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006 Identifying your niche and purpose with Michelle...

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2020/12/17

My guest on today’s show is a dear friend Michelle Hakata. Michelle is an independent public health communications expert working in sub-Saharan Africa and the UK. She is passionate about public health issues relating to sexual and reproductive health rights of women. Michelle has significant experience of working with non-governmental organisations, diaspora groups and the private sector on development, analysing trade and investment flows to Africa and remittances. In this episode Michelle

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005 Identity, racism and the future of brands with...

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2020/12/10

Shownotes:My guest on today’s show is Suresh Raj - Chief Business Development Officer (hunter) at Vision 7. Suresh is a founding member of The Collective, a global mentor forINvolve, the diversity and inclusion specialists and is an inaugural member of McKinsey’s The Alliance. Recognitions include being named to two prominent global lists – (1) Financial Times’ and Yahoo! Finance’s Top 100 Ethnic Minority Executive Leaders as well as (2) the Top 100 LGBTQ+ Executive Leaders.In this episode Suresh

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004 Building the Agency of the Future with Jennifer Risi

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2020/12/02

SHOWNOTESMy guest on today’s podcast is Jennifer Risi, Founder and CEO of ‘The Sway Effect’. In this fast paced session we speak about her family, education, background in psychology and how she landed her first job at Weber Shandwick. She also speaks about:👉🏾 Her entrepreneurial journey and the agency of the future👉🏾 Walking the talk on Diversity & Inclusion at The Sway Effect. The importance of bringing in different people and perspectives to the table for delivering great work.👉🏾 The

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003 Straight to Normal with Sharif Rangnekar

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2020/11/26

My guest in the third episode of the podcast is Sharif Rangnekar author of ‘Straight to Normal’ my life as a gay man. He is the festival director of ‘The Rainbow Literature festival’ and he curates, ‘Embrace music justice arts’ platform. Sharif is a TEDx speaker, a former President of the PRCAI and former board member of global communications forum ICCO. He is a communications and workplace sensitisation consultant and an advocate for the LGBTQ community in IndiaDuring the episode we delve into his

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002 Building a purpose driven business with Clare...

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2020/11/20

My guest on today's show is Clare Parsons Co-Founder of Lansons and Fellow CIPR. In the podcast Clare speaks about her background, her journey into communications,setting up Lansons and being a values/purpose driven business. Some of the other topics covered in the podcast are:Purpose and business in a Post COVID/BLMHow BLM has impacted her view of the world, the industry and generally livesOn creating a more inclusive industry, collaboration, learning from best practiceRole of PR practitioners in

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