Fearless Futures

18/01/2023

Join us for our BRAND NEW open workshop: Beyond the Black Square, where we will discuss how to move away from empty gestures and towards meaningfully standing in solidarity to enact transformative change!

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22/12/2022

In this special episode, Sable Lomax, our Chief Relationships Officer, is joined by the other two members of the Fearless Futures Leadership Team, Sara Shahvisi, Chief Learning Officer and Hanna Naima McCloskey, CEO and Founder. In this 3-way conversation, they explore some of the issues front of mind as they lead Fearless Futures. If you’ve always wanted to see what’s going on behind the Fearless Futures curtain - tune in!

You can listen to The Fearless Futures podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Podbean or watch Season Two on YouTube by visiting the link in our bio.

[Video description: Hanna Naima McCloskey, a White Woman is on the left of the screen. In the center, Sara Shahvisi, a Woman of Colour, and on the right of the screen, Sable Lomax, a Black Woman.

Hanna is wearing tortoise-shell glasses and a black and white striped shirt and blonde hair. Sara is wearing a orange shirt and straight brown hair. Sable is wearing red glasses, a black shirt and her black and grey hair is in cornrows.]

15/12/2022

Taking risks and taking accountability in the pursuit of equity can be nerve wracking! How does one reconcile the two without losing momentum in the process? In episode 11, Sable Lomax, our Chief Relationships Officer, is excited to engage in a deep dialogue with Jeremiah Chan, Head of Patents, Licensing and Open Source at Meta, about what it takes to pursue meaningful action for inclusion in spaces where we are most energised, and how to keep moving forward in the face of failures, setbacks, and pressure.

Tune in to The Fearless Futures podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Podbean or watch Season Two on YouTube by visiting the link in our bio.

[Video description: Jeremiah Chan, an Asian Man talks to Sable Lomax, a Black Woman. Jeremiah is wearing black glasses with a white collared shirt with a blue pattern. Sable is wearing red glasses and an orange shirt with curly black and grey hair.]

08/12/2022

Sable Lomax, our Chief Relationships Officer, is thrilled to be in conversation with Hasan Khair, Co-founder and Managing Director at Mavericks Unlimited. This episode makes space to discuss the personal missteps, discomfort, and courage it takes to look inwards before we start and while on the path to equity. Many of us can relate to the uncertainty, trepidation, and fear before taking action for equity, this discussion will explore it all with honesty. This isn’t to be missed!

You can listen to The Fearless Futures podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Podbean or watch Season Two on YouTube:

[Video description: Hasan Khair, a Man of Colour with black and grey short hair and a beard. He is wearing a black t-shirt with a grey collared shirt and black headphones.]

01/12/2022

In episode 9, Twanya Hood Hill from Tech Soft 3D and Fiona Mullan from Bloom and Wild join Sable Lomax, our Chief Relationships Officer, for an energising conversation on how HR and Talent connect to the equity and inclusion agenda. How do HR and Talent teams lead from behind, with humility? How do we build accountability around our inclusion and equity ambitions for company leaders? And, how do we not fixate solely on recruitment when aiming to building equity across our organisation? Tune in to hear them discuss all this, and more!

You can listen to The Fearless Futures podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Podean or watch Season Two on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3FhKaeU

[Video description: Twanya Hood Hill, a Black Woman is on the left side of the screen. In the middle is Sable Lomax, a Black Woman. On the right side is Fiona Mullan, a White Woman.

Twanya is wearing teal glasses, a pink button-up shirt with textured brown hair pushed back with in a multi-colored hairband. Sable is wearing red glasses, a blue shirt with black and blonde braids. Fiona is wearing black glasses, a pink shirt with blonde straight hair.]

30/11/2022

Episode 6 brings Fearless Futures’ Chief Relationships Officer Sable Lomax, together with Mark Watson, Managing Director of International Agency Services at the Marketing Store and Jonathan English, Managing Director of Skeleton Productions. They explore the quick wins that don’t always mean we’ve won when it comes to equity in our products, what to do about gimmicky social justice in so-called creative outputs and in light of all this - what we do when we make mistakes.

You can listen to The Fearless Futures podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Podean or watch Season Two on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3UoNx8e

[Video description: Jonathan English, a White Man with short brown hair and a brown beard is wearing a black sweatshirt and speaks through black headphones with Mark Watson, a White Man with short grey hair who is wearing wireless earphones and a collared red and white plaid shirt.]

29/11/2022

If you haven't registered to our e-Learning platform, you can do it here: http://bit.ly/3EQS2Te Be sure to take advantage of our early bird pricing before it's gone!

Today, Fearless Futures, an international diversity, equity and inclusion training and consultancy firm,

24/11/2022

In episode 8, Joi Torres, Unity’s Senior Inclusion Program Manager, joins Sable Lomax, our Chief Relationships Officer, to examine the positives and negatives of representation when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion work. Representation can make people feel seen and recognized, but can it be a powerful tool and simultaneously a limiting one for marginalised people? Who ultimately gets to be represented in workplaces, and to whose benefit? How does ‘identity politics’ and ‘elite capture’ play out in companies and in the mainstream?

Tune in to The Fearless Futures podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Podean or watch Season Two on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3F029Xc

[Video description: Joi Torres, an Asian Woman talks with Sable Lomax, a Black Woman. Joi is wearing a black shirt with long sleeves and she has black straight hair. Sable is wearing red glasses and a white shirt. Her black and blonde hair is set into a half-up braided top knot.]

17/11/2022

In episode 7, Ebele Okobi - a values-led, transformational leader and advocate - joins Sable Lomax, in conversation on all things ‘disrupting power’! In this jam-packed session, Ebele will tell us why there is no pipeline problem, how to build an ERG with purpose, and power and how to push back on narratives that can take hold in companies--like the quest for limitless free speech and the demand for political diversity. You’ll leave feeling ready for the challenges ahead and re-committed to the practice of courage.

You can listen to The Fearless Futures podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Podean or watch Season Two on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3OckALj

[Video description: Ebele Okobi, a Black Woman talks with Sable Lomax, a Black Woman. Ebele is wearing a black shirt with an orange beaded necklace containing multi-coloured ornaments around her neck. Her short textured hair is pushed back away from her face. Sable has black and blonde braids, and she is wearing a white collared shirt, and red glasses.]

09/11/2022

Only ONE WEEK until our e-Learning launch event! Check out what Kevin D'Souza, Communications Design Lead at H&M said about our innovative e-Learning experience.

Register for our FREE Launch event today: https://bit.ly/3A0y1Z3

[Image description: A white background with teal, burgundy and pink triangles on the top left corner and the bottom right corner. Teal text reads: "Impressively in-depth, thought-provoking and engaging. Fearless Futures have created an essential learning package, designed to disrupt thinking." - Kevin D'Souza, Communications Design Lead, H&M]

07/11/2022

Our new e-Learning offering is almost here!

Our Founder and CEO, Hanna Naima McCloskey, shares more details about this offering! Register for our virtual launch event on November 16th: https://bit.ly/3hknXU2

[Video description: Hanna Naima McCloskey, a White Woman with blonde hair speaks to the screen. She's wearing burgundy glasses and a black shirt. Behind her, there's a green plant and a framed watercolour picture of different flowers.]

03/11/2022

In episode 5, Fearless Futures’ Chief Relationships Officer Sable Lomax, is joined by Megan Kollar Dwyer, Senior Director of Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Zendesk. Megan shares the core steps to building a robust DEI team, the pitfalls and mistakes that can happen and how to avoid them; as well as practices to remain ambitious when engaging with leadership team members who might want an easier road than the one DEI leaders have set out for the company. They also turn to institutional performative allyship - asking whether it can ever be avoided!

You can listen to The Fearless Futures podcast on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Podean or watch Season Two on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3U4jQtU

[Video description: Megan Kollar Dwyer, a White Woman, speaks to Sable Lomax, a Black Woman. Megan is wearing a printed collared shirt with various colours and has a short blonde bob. Sable has black and grey curly hair and is wearing red glasses with a white shirt, an orange vest, and gold necklaces.]