Having a career in the creative industry is never easy, and knowing how to find your space in a complex sector can be tough.

Join us as Dr. Mena Fombo facilitates a session speaking on how to navigate the sector, using the resources around you, building agency, and expanding your ideas of what an artistic/creative career can look like for you as a global majority artist.

From this session you will get:

• Mapping your leadership journey within your creative career
• Developing agency and strategy in how you move through the sector
• Gaining perspective about the space you are in and how to use it to your advantage

Biography:

Dr Mena Fombo (hon) is a founder, a film director and a facilitator.

Mena is passionate about creating greater human connections and supporting individuals and teams to flourish in purpose driven spaces.

She is the founder and managing director of Black Girl Convention – a creative studio centering retreat experiences and co founder of Blak Wave Productions – one of the only black owned tv & film production companies in the South West. Mena is also an executive coach, leadership facilitator, experienced mentor, retreat specialist and equity, diversity and inclusion consultant delivering to clients globally, trusted by Microsoft, Netflix, NFL, Bitly, Aardman and the BBC.

Mena is an International ambassador for the City of Bristol building global business networks, holds an honorary doctorate for work in Equalities from the University of the West of England, is a voting member of BAFTA (British Academy Film and Television Awards) and she is behind the powerful TEDx Talk No. You Cannot Touch My Hair which attracted contributions to the research study from around the world and watched by one million viewers.

Underpinning all of Mena’s work is her commitment promoting and campaigning for equity, representation and Inclusion.