Good Employment Week is an annual week of activities, designed to raise awareness of good employment across Greater Manchester. To mark the week, Greater Manchester Mayor’s Charity are convening a panel discussion to explore what good employment looks like in the context of lived experience and complex multiple disadvantage.
Spanning recruitment, retention and organisational culture, a panel drawn from the public, private and VCSFE sectors, with additional representation from lived experience and recruitment, will share their learnings, experiences, and challenges.
The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions and share some of their reflections, collectively exploring exactly what good employment should look like for people with lived experience of complex multiple disadvantage across the region.
The panel will feature representatives from Michael Page, GMCA, Bruntwood, Unlimited Potential and Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network.
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About your speakers
Bethany Adam, Head of Purpose and Impact, Bruntwood
Bethany is the Head of Purpose and Impact at Bruntwood, where she works to embed, deliver, monitor and measure social impact across a variety of projects and relationships. This includes working with local communities to think about how lived experience shapes the policies and decisions impacting our places.
Prior to her current role, Bethany has held a series of roles in the VCFSE and NGO sectors working with public and private partners to deliver change related to local, regional and international issues. She is passionate about working with local communities to address the challenges they find most pressing, and utilising cross sector partnerships to influence change.
Cathy Lebadou, GMHAN Lived Experience Coordinator, Greater Manchester Homelessness Action Network
Cathy is a Human Rights Activist who is well known for being an ambassador of the Lift The Ban Campaign with Refugee Action. She sits on the Refugee Action Board with an Asylum Crisis lead role. Cathy has experience steering strategic conversations on recruiting and upskilling of people with lived experience for a fairer representation on SLTs and Charity Boards. Her work in the Refugee Sector has won her a 3rd sector Leadership award. Cathy is currently a Lived Experience Coordinator were her passion and expertise in meaningful inclusion will be shared.
Chris Dabbs, CEO, Unlimited Potential
Chris is Chief Executive of Unlimited Potential, a social enterprise that specialises in social and economic innovation. Unlimited Potential has run innovative projects and services for over 15 years to address some of the most challenging social and economic issues, drawing on the strengths of local people and communities.
Chris has set up, and supported local people to set up, many social enterprises. He is a Fellow of the School for Social Entrepreneurs and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Chris is an Assembly Member at the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the Greater Manchester VCFSE Leadership Group.
Joanna Mcrae, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Client Solutions Director, PageGroup
Joanna has worked at PageGroup for 16 years, spending the majority of her illustrious career as a senior recruitment consultant across sales, marketing, procurement and HR. Joanna has established her reputation as a committed and successful recruiter with clients in the private sector and public sectors. Following her passion to improve diversity within the workforce and as a continuation of the work she had done in recruitment, and for the last seven years of her recruitment career advised the NHS on DE&I recruitment processes to support their diversity goals.
In 2020 Joanna created a mentoring programme for women in Finance from Not for Profit and Public Sectors. This programme is currently in its third year. Most recently, Joanna launched a Networking Group for Asian and Black C-Suite leaders who are looking to progress their careers into Non Executive positions.
James Walker, Principal – Homelessness and Rough Sleeping, GMCA
James Walker is Principal - Homelessness and Rough Sleeping at Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Over the past eight years James has worked across a range of varied voluntary and public sector roles focused on supporting people experiencing homelessness. This has included frontline client focused support work, the delivery of accommodation programmes, and is a specialist in developing community approaches to homelessness prevention and managing complex cross-sector partnerships. At the heart of this James' career has been driven by both personal and professional experience with an aim to work towards social justice and inclusion for all.