LINKEDIN I met her early last year at F1 Recruitment’s Let’s Be Bold About Race event which she was hosting as worldwide Head of Culture & Inclusion M&C Saatchi. So, I was totally chuffed when she accepted my invitation to be a guest on The Elephant in the Room  Previously as a Diversity & Inclusion expert she has advised the U.K. Advertising & Media Industry Diversity Taskforce and the IPA's Leadership Talent Group. In this episode she talks about 👇🏾 👉🏾 Being comfortable with her identity 👉🏾 Her belief that our liberations are tied to each other. 👉🏾 The role of the Chief Diversity Organisation in the organisation 👉🏾 Her advise on how organisations can be more inclusive  👉🏾 Organisational purpose and inclusion  👉🏾 People who inspire her and much more Listen to the full episode here 👇🏾 https://thepurposeroom.org/podcast/Subscribe to the show on any of your favourite platforms iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts Listen to the audiogram here 👇🏾

TWITTER In this episode of The Elephant in the Room podcast my guest Sereena Abbassi talks about her identity, her belief that all our liberations are tied to each other and shares plenty of great advise on how organisations can be more inclusive.  Listen to the full episode here 👇🏾 https://thepurposeroom.org/podcast/Subscribe to the show on any of your favourite platforms iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts Listen to the audiogram here 👇🏾

Shownotes I met her early last year at F1 Recruitment’s Let’s Be Bold About Race event which she was hosting as worldwide Head of Culture & Inclusion M&C Saatchi. So, I was totally chuffed when she accepted my invitation to be a guest on The Elephant in the Room  As a Diversity & Inclusion expert Sereena has previously advised the U.K. Advertising & Media Industry Diversity Taskforce and the IPA's Leadership Talent Group. In this episode she talks about 👇🏾 👉🏾 Being comfortable with her identity 👉🏾 Her belief that our liberations are tied to each other. 👉🏾 The role of the Chief Diversity Organisation in the organisation 👉🏾 Her advise on how organisations can be more inclusive  👉🏾 Organisational purpose and inclusion  👉🏾 People who inspire her and much more Listen to the full episode here 👇🏾 https://thepurposeroom.org/podcast/Subscribe to the show on any of your favourite platforms iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts Memorable passages from the interview:  👉🏾 Pleasure to be with you this morning. So what can I share with you? So, my father is Persian Iranian and came to the U.K just before the Iranian revolution of 1979. My dad is an immigrant and my mother is British, Jamaican and my great granddad came from Jamaica and then brought over my dad, a few years later. So, Jamaican as well as Persian Iranian and I very much identify as both as well as British. I was born in London educationally, I lived part of my childhood or teenage hood in the countryside. Other parts in London, have lived and moved to Iran when I was 18 for eight months. So, I lived in Tehran and I have lived in few different parts of the world the Netherlands, Spain and America as well. I love to travel. 👉🏾 Actually, I think I'm quite the opposite. I'm all of my identities at the same time. Yet I think naturally, when I'm with my Iranian family, for instance, it pulls out my Persianess perhaps even more. Thus when I'm perhaps with my Jamaican family that it might pull out my Jamaicanness more. But I very much have. I embody all of my identities at the same time. I don't try to suppress any of them. I don't try to assimilate and just. Yeah, just a real celebration of all of them. I love talking about my identity. I can't put a label on it. I don't have a label. I'm just me. 👉🏾 I am I'm very comfortable with who I am. Yeah, I don't allow others to define who I...