Business @ Breakfast, our successful monthly networking meeting, brings together staff from the School of Management and professionals from Bath, Bristol and the surrounding areas for informative talks, networking and discussion around best practices and any issues facing businesses.

This event is suitable for:

• Company Directors
• Senior Managers
• Founders
• Individuals responsible for learning and development/HR within a business
• Talent Directors

We want our future sessions to be guided by you, focusing on the topics that you feel would be beneficial for your business. Please let us know what you would like to hear about at subsequent events.

What to expect

Join us for Business @ Breakfast, for a reflection of how inclusive our workplaces really are.

This month, we're handing the floor to Hannah Wilson for a workshop on something most organisations think they've got covered, but few have really examined: inclusion. Not the box-ticking kind, and not a policy gathering dus, but the everyday version that shapes how people actually feel at work, and whether they feel they belong.

Expect an honest, practical and occasionally challenging session. You'll leave with a sharper sense of what inclusion looks like in practice, and a few things worth taking back to your own team.

Prepare to explore:

Over the morning, Hannah will invite us to look at:

• What it really means to be included, and to belong, in a workplace
• How we make inclusion intentional, rather than something we hope happens by accident
• The societal, structural and systemic barriers that affect different individuals and groups, often without us noticing
• The language, behaviours and everyday practices that quietly work against inclusion, and how to challenge them
• How we show up, how we interact, and how we hold space for one another

It's a session that asks questions of all of us, whatever our role or sector. Come ready to reflect, share, and maybe rethink one or two assumptions.

Our speaker

Hannah Wilson is a leadership development consultant, coach and trainer, and the founder and director of the Belonging Effect, an international DEIB training provider. She spent two decades leading schools and working across multi-academy trusts before setting up her own coaching and training business in 2020, and is the co-founder of the #WomenEd and #DiverseEd movements. A Cultural Intelligence (CQ) consultant and C-Me activator, Hannah is also the author of Cultivating Belonging and co-editor of Diverse Educators: A Manifesto. Since relocating to Bath in 2023 she has founded the BANES Women's Leadership Network, and has served as a primary school governor and as Chair of a multi-academy trust board of trustees - so she brings both the theory and a good deal of lived, hands-on experience to the conversation.