INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY


Creative session with artist Peter Moolan-Feroze at Relocate’s International Women’s Day


The project, called On Her Terms, helps women and girls who


live on the street, and the women who help them. “As women, we are all involved in different parts of the same struggle,” she explained. “We can find support and encouragement in the same ways, by connecting with other women with shared experiences.” Joseph said that many women in the workplace had experience


of things that had happened that were not on their terms, and they could reflect on that. “Women are fantastic networkers and connectors and we can build on that to make a difference in the world,” she added.


WOMEN AS ROLE MODELS In the round table discussion, there were contributions from men and women from a range of different businesses about how women can act as role models in the workplace to encourage younger people. Attendees also raised the issue of how companies were missing out on a loyal and hardworking tranche of society – working mothers – and why making the workplace more accessible to this group could make good business sense. Belinda Smith of Grace Coaching, summed it up, saying, “As women, we can invite other people into our lives, and if we keep inviting each other into our projects and lives, then great things will happen.” There was a surprise visit by BBC television presenter Cherry


Healey of Inside the Factory and Karen Hobbs, comedian and information officer for The Eve Appeal, a national charity that raises money for ground-breaking research into the five gynaecological cancers (which kill 21 women in the UK every day). Hobbs talked about her experience of being diagnosed with cervical cancer aged just 24, about the signs to look out for and what to do if you’re worried. She also discussed International Women’s Day and what it had achieved.


DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL INCLUSION Lauren Touré, senior consultant at Frost Included f(i), used evidence from the worlds of science, finance, economics and salmon farming to explain how diversity grows resilience, mitigates


against risk and heightens the probability of success in nature and in organisations. Frost Included runs inclusive leadership training at the


CEO level and Touré has more than 12 years’ experience within the diversity and social inclusion sector, including the London Olympics 2012 Organising Committee’s Diversity and Inclusion Team. She said, “In a few years we won’t be talking about diversity and inclusion, it will be just part of the culture.” Touré is registered blind and explained how advances in


technology had helped her, “As a disabled person, I have had a fantastic career and I have never been discriminated against. When it comes to motherhood, however, people have very entrenched views about it,” she said. “People assumed that my priorities had changed. For true equality to occur in the workplace, we must level the playing field.” She said leaders needed to understand why diversity is vital to


the workplace, show and lead by example, and deliver and make interventions that changed the workplace environment. “We need to change the policies and the processes,” she added. This starts with recognising and tackling your own bias; opening up ‘in groups’ so that managers are not always asking advice from people who look and think like themselves; welcoming feedback and giving permission for staff to disagree; mentoring people from different backgrounds, and modelling the behaviour you wish to see, such as working from home, encouraging both men and women to take up shared parental leave, and flexible working.


Find out more about Think Global People and what works across inclusion and diversity at the Festival of Global People and work with Peter Moolan Feroze.


Peter Moolan Feroze will be showing a collection of prints at the Affordable Art Fair at Hampstead Heath 9 -12 May. Buy tickets at www.affordableartfair.com/fairs/london-hampstead


28 | RELOCATE | SPRING 2019


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