Leadership Links webinar: Anti-racism in Leadership

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In this Leadership Links webinar we welcome Professor Joy Warmington MBE. This session will explore anti-racist leadership in practice.

Since 2020, the global pandemic and resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement have illuminated societal racism. At national, organisational, and individual levels we began the work to reflect critically on the role we play either reproducing or disrupting systemic racism. 

This work isn’t easy. There is a lot of confusion about exactly what anti-racism is and how it differs from previous attempts to address racial discrimination. 

This webinar will explore how we capitalise on the opportunities to lead on anti-racism and in particular how those who identify as ‘white’ can suspend their beliefs about the inadequacies of their positionality and embrace their leadership of race equality.

Prior to attending the event, we encourage to read this short article linking to the theme of the session: Moving from not racist to anti-racist | The King’s Fund.

The session is open to leaders at all levels and stages across social care, social work and health in Scotland.

Professor Joy Warmington MBE

Role:: CEO of brap

As CEO of brap, Joy also spearheads their work on learning and change. Joy’s area of expertise is leadership and organisational development, and she applies this lens to the work that brap does with organisations, boards, and leadership teams. Recently, Joy led on the design and delivery allyship programmes for white leaders in partnership with the King’s Fund and has created clear paradigm shifting work about the implementation of anti-racism. Joy holds many qualifications including an MSc, Cert Ed, Postgraduate Diploma in Multicultural Education, and a Certificate in Process Oriented Psychology from the Deep Democracy Institute, Oregon. She is also qualifying as a psychotherapist and is skilled in process orientated psychology.

Joy has held a number of roles in the NHS including Vice Chair of Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and she is currently a Non-Executive Director at Oxford University Hospitals.

Joy was awarded an MBE in 2019 for services to healthcare and the community in the West Midlands and is a Visiting Professor for Middlesex University Business School.