Featured conversations

I speak on belonging, cultural and disability inclusion, community building, placemaking, engagement, co-design, and the importance of valuing lived experience as expertise.

See below for links to podcasts, videos, articles, and key panel discussions that I have been a part of as a host and a speaker.

Video from my interview on the safe and secure principle for the NSW Public Spaces Charter.

Featured Videos

Social cohesion is about humanity, connection and support despite differences.

See Belonging Shift Podcast Episode 5 for full conversation with Aleem Ali, CEO Welcoming Australia

Avoid approaching people different to you with a mindset of patronising, paternalism, and pity

See Belonging Shift Podcast Episode 9 for full conversation with Anthea Hancocks, CEO Scanlon Foundation Research Institute

Migration, settlement, and being intentional about building belonging

See Belonging Shift Podcast Episode 4 for full conversation with Melissa Monteiro, CEO Community Migrant Resource Centre

Reimaging workplace inclusion for belonging and social cohesion

See Belonging Shift Podcast Episode 6 for full conversation

Featured conversations

Belonging is the new standard for communities and workplaces, Belonging Shift Podcast, May 2026

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Turn your employee reference groups into insight engines, ERG Powertalk podcast, June 2026

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DEI Compliance will not save you, DEI will not DIE podcast, Bree Gorman, March 2026

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Belonging, inclusion, and executive accountability. The strategic shift needed for inclusion to work.

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Panel speaker and host

Community and place

I advocate for more leadership accountability, cultural inclusion, social cohesion, and a community-led, asset-based, belonging-mindset approach to community engagement and place-making.

I have hosted and spoken on panels on:

  • Designing places in collaboration with communities

  • Community-led placemaking

  • Empowering communities

  • Making public spaces accessible and inclusive

  • Engaging communities with a belonging mindset

Diversity and inclusion

I advocate for greater leadership accountability, systems thinking, business impact, and a belonging mindset in how we approach diversity and inclusion.

I have hosted and spoken on panels and podcasts on:

  • Lived experience and intersectionality

  • Cultural inclusion, anti-racism and unconscious bias

  • Disability inclusion and social model

  • Belonging mindset and systems thinking

  • Embedding inclusion in the business