What is privilege? How does privilege bring, or remove, power? Can Black people have privilege in the Western World?

Ngozi Lyn Cole believes that everyone has the passion and potential to achieve their ambitions and sees her ‘why’ as supporting individuals and organisations to do just that.

Link to the Wheel of Power and Privilege by @sylviaduckworth https://www.thisishowyoucan.com/post/__wheel_of_power_and_privilege

John Amaechi - What is White Privilege https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrvkbqt

A self-employed coach and leadership catalyst, she is also co-founder of GLT Partners Ltd, a support agency for charities, social enterprises and businesses.

Ngozi holds non-executive posts including Chair of the North East Justice Together Initiative; Deputy Chair of the Appointments Committee of the General Pharmaceutical Council and Non-Executive Director at the South Tyneside & Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust.

She spent 18 years at the National Lottery Community Fund holding several roles, including England Director until February 2017. In that role, she was responsible for all grant programmes, overseeing over 500 employees and an annual budget of £450m to £1bn depending on Lottery rollovers! Prior to this, she worked in community development, education, urban regeneration, and housing. She has significant experience of leadership and executive coaching; running action learning; developing and implementing strategy; organisational and leadership development; change management; collaboration and racial equity.

More recently she has worked with funders such as the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Lloyds Bank Foundation, Millfield House Foundation and Virgin Money Foundation; Children Investment Fund Foundation and several senior leadership teams and charities on their leadership and racial equity journeys. Her deeply personal ambition on racial equity is to leave the world a better place for our future generations.

2016 New View 50 list of most influential Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people working in the public sector.

2020 Lloyds Banking Group. Kindness and Leadership 50 Leading Lights List

2021 Northern Health Science Alliance #NorthInnovationWomen

Twitter – https://twitter.com/NgoziLynCole
Email – ngozilyn@lyncole.org.uk
GLT Partners Ltd https://www.gltpartners.co.uk/
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ngozi-lyn-cole-she-her-9232135/

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