[IMAGE 1 DESCRIPTION: Image of Sulaiman Khan in the middle of the photo box surrounded by purple and blue coloured boxes. Title describing who he is, Founder & Chief Purpose Officer of ThisAbility Limited. With the date for BloomFest in the corner, 10 to 12 of November 2020]
We are delighted to announce our Founder & Chief Purpose Officer, Sulaiman Khan, will be speaking on Day 3 at BloomFest 2020!
Repost via Bloom UK:
BLOOMFEST SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT - We have some really brilliant speakers lined up for you at BloomFest next week. We are so excited to have Sulaiman Khan join us on day three for our workshop ‘The One and Only - How to find your way when you are the only one in the room.’
Buy your BloomFest ticket at the link in our bio. ⬆️ ⬆️
A little more about Sulaiman -
Disabled/Wild/Hot AF Adventurer and Continual WIP. Creating relationships, stories, and magic.
The igniter of hearts creatively, a South Asian disabled wheelchair user adventurer, Sulaiman loves to create relationships, stories, and magic. Also, Sulaiman is the award-winning Founder and Chief Purpose Officer of ThisAbility Limited, which is a disability-led equity business. ThisAbility helps socially conscious organisations focused on sustainability, technology, or design to increase revenues by engaging the estimated $8 Trillion disabled market. Daringly integrating disability for business growth.
With over 35-years lived-experience of disability and over 10-years experience in the creative industries, because of his innate sense of solidarity and desire for justice, he works tirelessly to ignite, invest in, and amplify disabled creativity across the world for a Just tomorrow for disabled people. And Sulaiman is an active (non-optical) intersectional accomplice-in progress and a continual work-in-progress too, relentlessly and unapologetically.
[IMAGE 1 DESCRIPTION: Image of Sulaiman Khan in the middle of the photo box surrounded by purple and blue coloured boxes. Title describing who he is, Founder & Chief Purpose Officer of ThisAbility Limited. With the date for BloomFest in the corner, 10 to 12 of November 2020]
This is what Sulaiman says:
“I’m super excited to be supporting you at BloomFest 2020 and to be joining my dear friend Collette of Brand By Me for this event! Thank you for everything you do too, Bloom UK. I am a massive admirer of Bloom for many years, and I profoundly respect you all. And thanks for adding image descriptions and thinking about accessibility for disabled people, including disabled womxn. Keep up the excellent work! Chat soon, my friends. PS: My biography has the most FIRE of any speaker.”
And here’s a bit more about our workshop (WORKSHOP 3.3):
Title = The One and Only: How to find your way when you are the only one in the room
Details = Under pressure to perform. On guard. Isolated. Under more scrutiny. When you’re the only person from an underrepresented group in the room, your workplace experience can be a world away from the majority. At the same time, more often than not, “onlys'' aren't seen as the individuals that they are, they are inappropriately seen as THE representative of an entire, often broad and diverse group. Their performance can feel like a litmus test for what that group is capable of - and this is enormous pressure for anyone to feel. In this workshop, we want to explore how “onlys'' can turn their experiences into a more positive one. We will learn how to relieve this unnecessary pressure, feel more confident, and understand how to challenge the tokenism around us.
Date = 12 November 2020
Time = 13:40 - 14:40
Not only should you get tickets to this 3-day festival to see Collette and I, but because all profits from Bloom events go to our charity partner Women's Aid, along with any donations made on the event days. Now that’s awesome.