Podcast
Jul 2, 2025
Podcast Feature: Mamobo Ogoro on How HR Leaders Can Drive Inclusion Through Arts and Culture
Dr. Mamobo Ogoro, social psychologist and CEO of GORM, joins Susanne Rogers on the Social Justice Matters podcast to explore how HR leaders and DEI professionals can build meaningful workplace inclusion through the power of arts, culture, and intercultural leadership.
In a conversation rooted in both personal experience and academic expertise, Mamobo challenges traditional approaches to diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and offers practical strategies for creating psychologically safe environments where teams can thrive.
This episode is essential listening for People & Culture professionals, HR Directors, and DEI Leads looking to strengthen team trust, address cultural tension, and embed inclusion beyond one-off training days.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- Why visible diversity alone doesn’t create real belonging
- How arts and storytelling build intercultural understanding in teams
- What psychological safety looks like in diverse workplaces
- How HR leaders can apply intercultural competence to everyday leadership
- How GORM’s Unified Business Programme equips teams to lead inclusive change
🎧 Listen to the full episode now
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Want to build a workplace where everyone feels seen, valued, and safe?
Learn how GORM’s Unified Business Programme can help HERE
GORM is an multi-award winning social enterprise on a mission to unify across differences and advance belonging for marginalised communities through intercultural media and education. Guided by evidence based methods such asBelonging Design Principles and Intercultural Competence Frameworks, GORM delivers its services to Elevate the voices of diverse communities through media, Enable Communities to tell their stories through community programme, and Equip leaders through evidence based intercultural consultancy. GORM aids in the sustainable goals of (10) reducing inequality and (16) Peace, justice and strong institutions.
