Joanna is an experienced facilitator, guidance practitioner and educator having worked for seven years in higher education for the University of Leeds, St Mary’s University, and The Careers Group, University of London. They qualified as a careers consultant with a postgraduate diploma from the University of Warwick and is currently studying towards qualifying as a psychotherapist with Regent’s University London. Joanna has worked extensively in widening participation, in outreach and as a careers consultant - supporting students and graduates from underrepresented groups to access university and to progress into the world of work. They've been an active member of equality and inclusion committees, networks and working groups, implementing meaningful change for staff members, as well as students. They have a keen understanding of the structural and cultural issues that organisations and individuals face with regards to inclusion.

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Joanna’s professions require deep reflection and introspection in order to learn and develop, and it is this approach that they bring to their training. They develop and deliver inclusion training for staff members, which have a particular feature of facilitating difficult, but necessary conversations.

 

The culture we live in was not created overnight and it won’t be changed solely through legal and policy change - it will require each and every one of us to change how we think and act. In order to create a better world we need to engage with ourselves so that we can better engage and support others.