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LGBTQ+
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Programme
13-15 November 2024 | Ansty Hall
The 2024 LGBTQ+ Leadership Programme
The Stonewall LGBTQ+ Leadership Programme provides you with six months of specialist development and support.
Be Inspired
Join an inspiring retreat to explore and develop your leadership practice.
Learn New Skills
Enjoy ongoing interactive skillshares and a reunion.
Build Your Network
Develop a powerful and supportive network of LGBTQ+ leaders.
As LGBTQ+ leaders, we know the impact our identity has on our leadership.
We also often feel a drive to create more inclusive workplaces. Taking place 13-15 November 2024, at Ansty Hall, this programme provides you with a space to nurture your leadership development. It also creates opportunities to consider your power to transform the workplace around you.
Developed by and for LGBTQ+ leaders, the programme balances expertise and peer learning to support you and 39 other leaders from different organisations to develop together. You’ll also build a supportive network to continue to collaborate and share opportunities.
Applications for this year's programme have now closed. Check back next year to apply for 2025/26.
Well designed, brilliantly facilitated, great location, excellent content ... the best course I've ever been on in my professional career.
Delegate, 2023
Such a special three days ... and exceeded my expectations of what a leadership retreat should be.
Delegate, 2023
Who should attend?
This programme is open to both aspiring and existing LGBTQ+ leaders.
Leadership looks different in every organisation. Many of us are leaders in our network groups and not our day jobs, and some leadership positions can be inaccessible to LGBTQ+ people.
There’s no set level or type of leadership you have to achieve in order to access the programme.
- How does the programme work?
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This six-month programme kicks off with a 2.5 day retreat, 13-15 November 2024, at the beautiful Ansty Hall in Coventry. We’ll leave behind the everyday of work to create a safe and supportive space to learn and share expertise.
After the retreat you’ll be invited to join three digital skillshares on topics chosen by the group. These interactive sessions, facilitated by Stonewall facilitators will take place between January and April.
The programme will round off with a reunion event in May to reflect and celebrate as a network of leaders.
- What does the agenda look like?
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Learning set calls (Nov 2024)
Your learning set facilitator will give you a quick call to tell you more about the programme, answer any questions and understand your goals for the coming six months.
Retreat (13-15 Nov 2024)
Day one (PM only):
- Introductions, programme outline and contracting
- Informal dinner with Stonewall facilitators
Day two:
- Reflecting on your journey as a leader
- What drives your leadership, what does authentic leadership look like for you
- Understanding how identity, power and privilege shape us as leaders
- Reception and dinner as a group
Day three:
- What does it mean to be an inclusive leader, how does solidarity shape our leadership?
- Driving change at work, what can we learn from the wider movement and what can we contribute?
- Selecting skillshare themes
- Round up and goodbyes
Skillshares (Jan–April 2025)
The themes for three digital skillshares will be selected by the group. Stonewall’s content design team will then shape interactive two-hour workshops on the key topics you’d like to know more about.
Reunion (May 2025)
For the final part of the programme, we’ll come together again to reflect on what we’ve learnt and find collective solutions to remaining or new challenges. This will be a supportive and affirming space to share openly with one another and set the foundations for the continued development of the network.
We’ll also make time to celebrate together as we close off the programme.
Meet The Team
Meet the team who'll deliver the 2024 LGBTQ+ Leadership Programme
Simon Blake
Stonewall CEO, Keynote Speaker
Nancy Hitzig
Lead Facilitator
Sarah Campbell
Lead Facilitator
Ash Brook
Learning Set Facilitator
Anne Onwusiri
Learning Set Facilitator
Gwen Taylor
Learning Set Facilitator
Zee Monteiro
Learning Set Facilitator
Simon Blake (he/him)
Stonewall CEO
Simon will join us to share his reflections on LGBTQ+ leadership as well as what he has learned from being a part of Stonewall.
He’ll be involved in multiple sessions giving you the opportunity to ask questions and share reflections with him.
Nancy Hitzig (she/her)
Director of Delivery and Income
"My career has been an exercise in making room for others to create, imagine and define inclusive spaces where we all feel safe to dream.
"I am thrilled to be part of this year’s leadership programme and can’t wait to reflect and imagine with participants on what can be and how we get there."
Sarah Campbell (she/her)
Head of Delivery and Impact
"The leadership programme is the highlight of my year, it’s such a joy to bring together 40 brilliant leaders to learn, share and grow together.
"I love working with people to define what drives them and the kind of leader they want to be."
Ash Brook (she/her)
"Facilitating our LGBTQ+ Leadership Programmes are the highlights of my year.
"The opportunity to experience such a supportive and nurturing space, where LGBTQ+ peers can come together to feel more empowered and confident as leaders, is just magic!
"I always take a little slice of wisdom away from these programmes, learning so much from participants!"
Anne Onwusiri (they/them)
"I am excited to be a facilitator at this year’s LGBTQ+ Leadership Programme, I’m really interested in exploring our unique perspectives and intersectional identities and how this drives us to create more inclusive environments.
"I’m really looking forward to meeting this year’s amazing cohort!"
Gwen Taylor (they/them)
"I’m so excited to be a part of facilitating a space where LGBTQ+ people can come together to learn and inspire each other.
"It’s an incredible opportunity to be a part of developing a form of leadership that is truly co-created and can support leaders well beyond the event. I cannot wait for the conversations we have together and to learn from everyone else!"
Zee Monteiro (they/them)
"I am excited to be joining this LGBTQ+ Leadership Programme because it represents the powerful opportunity to empower and uplift our community.
"I cannot wait to witness the creativity, passion, resilience and joy each person will bring. I am looking forward to meeting everyone!"
How do I apply?
Applications for this year's programme have now closed. Check back next year to apply for 2025/26.
Diversity Champions get discounted places at this event:
- Non-Diversity Champion Rate: £2,300 (+VAT)
- Private Sector Diversity Champion Rate: £2,150 (+VAT)
- Public and Third Sector Diversity Champion Rate: £1,900 (+VAT)
The cost includes food and accommodation for the retreat as well as access to three skillshares and an in-person reunion event.
Access statement
We want our events to be accessible to everyone. All delegates should expect to feel safe, welcome and included at our events.
Read the full access statement for this event.
If you would like a more detailed version or have any questions, please email us at empowerment@stonewall.org.uk, or call us on 020 7593 1850, and we will get back to you.
If you have any access needs, please email empowerment@stonewall.org.uk and we will accommodate these.