On Diversity and Inclusion | Movell Dash
Black Then, Black Now is a podcast produced by four young Black Londoners aged 18 to 24, with the support of the Voltage Revolution. Each episode is a conversation between one young person and an elder, providing an intergenerational take on topics such as identity, music, education, and love. This podcast is concerned about change and continuity. What was it like then? And how is it now?
In this episode, Antonia has a chat with Movell Dash, a diversity and inclusion expert, trained barrister, and life coach. She is the founder and director of Modas Personal Development. With 15+ years of experience as a Diversity and Inclusion Practitioner Movell has worked with a variety of organisations in the Private and Public sectors, including the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Goldsmiths, University of London. Through her company Modas Personal Development, she provides consultancy and coaching assisting organisations in developing Diversity and Inclusion strategies and various initiatives including reverse mentoring and sponsorship programmes.
As a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, Movell works with organisations providing executive coaching and helping them in building strengths-based teams. Movell provides executive coaching and D&I coaching to senior leaders up to C-Suite, she also works with women returning to work from extended leave and those newly entering professions. She provides strengths-based coaching as a means of improving confidence, self-esteem, and productivity. Movell is also an Oxford Brookes validate personal development coach.
Movell is also a qualified Barrister and Prince2 and Agile certified Project Manager, she has in the recent past used her skills to develop and lead a successful Sponsorship Programme for BAME staff. As a mentor, Movell spent 4 years working with Brunel University, mentoring students as part of the National Mentoring Consortium Coaching Programme. She has worked with students at Athelney Primary School and Goldsmiths University delivering strengths workshops as an aid to their career development. Most recently, Movell has provided D&I mentoring to a London-based architecture firm. Movell also uses her skills and expertise as a public speaker, speaking on topics ranging from equality, diversity, and inclusion to coaching.
Movell's daughter and Antonia were friends through ballet class, and despite being a long-time family friends, the two hadn’t seen each other in nearly a decade! In this episode, Antonia and Novell talk about how diversity and inclusion have become more of a priority for companies, and why imposter syndrome affects some of us more than others.
She shared ways in order to deal with imposter syndrome, you must ask yourself “Have you focused on your achievements?”. She shares that she advises her clients to focus on themselves, compete with themselves and look at their achievements to remind them they are not an imposter!
In this episode, Antonia also discovered the many parallels between Movell's relationship with her daughter, and Antonia's relationship with her mum, which made her remember why they all got on so well in the first place.
