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Leyla Okhai is the founder and Director of Diverse Minds UK Ltd. Diverse Minds aims to create a positively productive workplace for all through training, coaching and consultancy. The focus is placed on wellbeing, mental health and by understanding differences. Leyla has over eighteen years’ experience in developing and implementing diversity, inclusion and equality practices, with senior leadership teams. She is also the host of the award-winning Diverse Minds Podcast: <a href='https://bit.ly/DMPAIT' target='_self'>https://bit.ly/DMPAIT</a> a weekly show about mental health and inclusion. She is a TEDx Speaker, her talk on the connection between race, culture and mental health can be found here: <a href='https://bit.ly/TEDxWolvesLO' target='_self'>https://bit.ly/TEDxWolvesLO</a>
As a trained coach, mentor, speaker and mediator, Leyla’s coaching practice centres on how staff can navigate boundaries and reach their full potential whilst maintaining their wellbeing. Leyla has also spoken regularly on mental health and wellbeing in the workplace and delivered training programmes and workshops on these issues in higher education and the private sector.
Leyla was the Head of Centre for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Centre at Imperial College London, from July 2012-June 2017. She was in charge of strategy and managing a team of staff working on various projects and initiatives. In this role she is also responsible for developing the College’s working relationships with Stonewall, Race for Opportunity, Business Disability Forum, Purple Space and WISE. Her project was shortlisted for the Race for Opportunity 2014 award in Race Equality: Transparency, Monitoring and Action category.
Prior to joining Imperial College, Leyla worked at the University of Oxford for over six years, firstly in student recruitment, specialising in increasing applications from underrepresented BAME young people. She went on to pioneer innovative race and religious belief equality initiatives at Oxford’s Equality and Diversity Unit from 2008-2012. She was the University’s first specific advisor for race and religion.

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