Black History Month leadership lunch

The inaugural Black History Month Leadership Lunch will celebrate this year's theme Celebrating our Sisters in partnership with AFBE-UK. Drawing this together with the Academy's focus on Engineering Inclusive Cultures, this lunch will explore the entrepreneurial spirit and leadership qualities required for success in engineering and how intersectionality raises unique challenges and opportunities in this space. 

Prior to the lunch, Dr Nike Folayan MBE HonFREng, Technical Director at WSP and Chair and Co-Founder of the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers UK (AFBE-UK), will be joined by Yewande Akinola MBE HonFREng, Engineering Designer and Innovator, and together they will their insights and experiences on this topic, framing the futher discussions during lunch. 

Programme*

*programme subject to change

Venue and accessibility

It is very important to the Royal Academy of Engineering that our events are accessible to all. If you have any accessibility requirements, please contact the Events team more than one week in advance of this event so that necessary arrangements can be made. Contact details: [email protected].

Further information about accessibility at Prince Philip House can be found at: https://raeng.org.uk/about-us/accessibility.

Recording notice

Please note this event will be recorded and published on the Royal Academy of Engineering website.

Diversity monitoring form 

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