Creating Cultures of Belonging

Born just before the lockdown in 2020, Leading Culture began life as Ali’s dream to create a business that supported organisations with the trickiest parts of inclusion. Building on their years in the corporate sector as well as their comedy performance career, Ali wanted to make learning joyful, and more importantly, inclusion something everyone felt confident with. With the support of some amazing, smart and courageous humans, Leading Culture is the culmination of this.

We hope you like what we do.

COURAGE

We work with integrity, and are proud to challenge ourselves and others.

JOY

We love what we do and that shines through all of our work. We avoid apathy.

ACTION

Words are a good start, but everything we do is backed up with consistent action.

OPENNESS

We are'’t perfect. We stand up for what’s right, and fix what’s wrong with humility.

Meet the Team


  • Founder

    (they/them)

    Ali is an Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) consultant (and award-winning comedy performer on the side) helping companies put the joy into cultural change and business training. Their approach blends skills developed performing and teaching improvised comedy with their established track record of developing multinational executive communications in the corporate sector. Their side job (as mentioned!) involves developing their 5* show ‘Touch Hunger’, which debuted at Brighton Fringe in 2021.


  • Associate Consultant

    (he/him)

    Musa is a mental health coach who helps his clients to bloom into happier, healthier, more resilient versions of themselves. He does this by helping them create healthy lifestyle habits and regenerative self-care rituals that promote good mental health and improve resilience. Through his own journey of recovery from depression, chronic stress, anxiety, burnout, and trauma, he knows how essential it is honour, nurture, and nourish yourself in order to thrive. As a queer and trans-identified man, he is passionate about helping other LGBTQIA+ folks to live boldly, to love themselves fiercely, and to care for themselves radically so they can feel their best doing what they love.


  • Business Manager

    (she/her)

    Nick is an experienced business manager with over 10 years enabling the provision of essential services in the NHS. She also has extensive experience in supporting senior executives and managing complex projects. Nick has also co-led a LGBTQ Employee Network for a busy NHS Trust. If you have any questions she is almost always the most likely to know the answer! In her spare time, Nick is studying for her associate’s qualification in Human Resources, Learning and Development.


  • Associate Consultant

    (she/her)

    Mani is a Diversity & Inclusion Consultant with a wealth of experience and knowledge in the special educational needs sector in schools. She has played an integral part in improving inclusive practice across a range of settings whilst gaining an in-depth knowledge of specific learning difficulties, autism and ADHD.

    Alongside this, Mani has lived experience of neurodivergence - both as someone who is neurodivergent themselves as well as through living with someone who is autistic. Creating communication and advocacy opportunities for people who experience barriers is a real passion for her and ensuring workspaces are inclusive and accessible to all neurominorities is a particular strength.

    Mani also identifies as queer and has strong community links; volunteering and supporting a charity run LGBTQIA+ space in Brighton as well as taking part in and supporting a wide range of trans and queer-centred events


  • Associate Consultant

    Helen is an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Consultant and Trainer, with 25 years working in informal and formal education under her belt. Her approach blends experience working with hundreds of millennials and Gen Zs to achieve their ambitions, mentorship of colleagues as a senior manager, and the humour and performance skills honed through over two decades of comedy, including a sell out improv show at 2022’s Brighton Fringe. She has developed and project-managed initiatives that support, engage, and give voice to, minority cohorts, particularly those from ethnic and linguistic minorities, the LGBTQ+ community, and neurodivergent learners.

    Through this work, Helen has continued to maintain an awareness of intersectionality and how it impacts people’s experiences. She has a specific connection to, and lived experience of, the complexities of intersectional identities: she is autistic and has ADHD, as well as identifying as LGBTQ+ and belonging to an ethnic minority.