Join Ash Thomas and Carolyn Parker, principal consultants, for personal reflection and community connection around the impact of racism on all of us as people, professionals and practitioners.
Through storytelling from our dual perspectives, we hope to offer a safe space for personal sense-making, supporting our Mayvin network, and thinking about what hopeful moves we might make in our home and work lives when the current spotlight on racism in the UK dims.
We are offering this as shared space to keep safe, stay well and support you in your own thinking - and we encourage people from all backgrounds to join the conversation.
About the hosts
Ash joined Mayvin this year with 15 years in people and culture roles including at Stonewall and British Heart Foundation. At the heart of his approach is a lifelong experience of being an ‘insider-outsider’ who can spot and surface the subtleties, dynamics and patterns that influence organisational outcomes.
Ash is English and Jamaican and shares his life with his half-Swedish husband in South London.
Carolyn joined Mayvin this year with 15 years in people and organisational development roles across private sector, Civil Service and NHS. Her MSc in People and OD dissertation focus was a cooperative action research inquiry into "the conditions that enable senior white women to show up as anti-racist" which she subsequently published as a journal article.
Carolyn lives in North London, with her husband Ben, their daughter Kira and the family cockapoo Roxy.
