Webinar: Black Led Systems Change, Accelerating Equitable Outcomes
Join us for this engaging webinar as we share learnings from a unique systems change process.
ABOUT THE WEBINAR
How can we achieve equitable outcomes for racialized communities? Join us for an engaging webinar where we will share insights from the ‘Black Systemic Safety Fund’ process, which aimed to accelerate equity through an innovative systems change initiative and achieve fair outcomes for Black and minoritized communities in the UK.
OUR SPEAKERS
HIGHLIGHTS WE WILL SHARE
- What kinds of processes contribute to transformation
- Why it is fundamental to have the right people in the process
- How and why to work with culture in the process
- The challenges of working effectively with power
Host: Michael Hamilton
Michael Hamilton is a Director of the Ubele Initiative as well as Michael E. Hamilton LTD. He was the Director of an NHS Young Peoples’ Health Project; a popular radio show host of the Health & Lifestyle show on Choice FM and a part-time lecturer in Youth & Community Work.
His extensive work experience spans more than 30 years and has explored change from a range of perspectives which include counselling, youth work, coaching and community development.
Speaker: Radhika Bynon
Radhika is in the Innovation Team at Impact on Urban Health (IoUH) where she works on the leadership portfolio and community funding. Radhika joined IoUH in 2020 from the Young Foundation where she was Director of Programmes. There, she led the Communities Team working on projects supporting community-led change.
Radhika is a long-standing trustee of Community Links, a key anchor organisation in Newham and a board member of Global Fund for Women, a US-based foundation focussing on women’s rights globally and is chair of Global Fund for Women UK.
Speaker: Margaret Pierre
Margaret has worked within the voluntary sector for over 25 years. She was CEO of High Trees Community Development Trust in Lambeth for 10 years until 2019 when she left to start her own community development consultancy, Pierre Consulting. She is currently a Co-CEO of ML Community Enterprise working with young people and communities in Brixton, South London.
Margaret is a Non-Executive Director for the Regenda Homes Group, a trustee for the National Communities Resource Centre (Trafford Hall) and previously a member of the Steering Committee of Lambeth’s Black Thrive initiative which seeks to address systemic issues which contribute to poor mental health outcomes for individuals from black communities.
Speaker: Yannick Wassmer
Yannick is a Senior Consultant at Reos Partners, he is a student of equitable systems change and a complexity nerd. He loves to design and facilitate collaborative change processes and transformative learning experiences, using participatory and dialogic methodologies for inner and outer change.
Yannick leads multiple social lab processes focused on creating flourishing, safe, and healthy Black and racially minoritised communities across London and the UK. Within Reos Partners, Yannick has played a vital role in stewarding the journey towards becoming a racially equitable, decolonised organisation.
Speaker: Professor Patrick Vernon
Patrick Vernon is a social commentator and campaigner and has been at the forefront of several high-profile campaigns on cultural heritage and social justice in the UK over the last decade. He has harnessed his experiences of senior management in the voluntary and public sector plus his passion for cultural history to develop new models of thinking around transformation changes in service development, equalities, innovative thinking for social change.
He is a trained life coach and mediator where his experience and knowledge has been used for leadership development and public speaking from grass roots organisations to public and private bodies.