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PurpleSpace Resources

Learning & Development

The PurpleSpace resources are an exclusive suite of insight publications, briefings and templates that bring something new to the table.

Our unique and extensive contact with Disabled Employee Network and Employee Resource Group leaders means that we are close to their challenges and so can create practical resources that help drive culture change on disability. All resources are free to our members and some are freely available to anyone interested in tips for building disability confidence from the inside out.

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#PositivelyPurple 2024 Member Support Resources

Stepping Up / Toolkit

123PurpleSpace members can access our Member Support Pack and our 2024 supporting resource to enable you to update your profiles and organisational website.

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Cultivate the Art of Obstinacity

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The most impactful disability ERG/Network leaders tend to be driven by purpose, they are resilient and persistent. They are what you might call ‘obstinacious’…

In her latest book, ‘Positively Purple’, PurpleSpace Founder, Kate Nash introduces the term ‘Obstinacity’, which she describes as ‘a mash up of two words - 'obstinance' (unyielding stubborn adherence to one's purpose or

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Confident Conversations Podcast Series One

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123Introducing the Confident Conversations Podcast Series

Series One of our Confident Conversations podcasts is now available, sponsored and produced by LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) and powered by the Futurists.

Hosted by PurpleSpace founder, Kate Nash, these interviews are brought to you with thanks to remarkable people choosing to share their learning about developing inner confidence so that

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Confident Conversations Series One - Belinda May, Dentons

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123Belinda May is a passionate advocate of the need to develop inner confidence. In our film together you will hear her describe that process being ‘like oxygen’, enabling us the freedom to explore who we are.
Belinda speaks candidly about her life, before and after her diagnosis of a life-threatening disease for which there is no cure. The medication that saves her life, also threatens it.

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Confident Conversations Series One - Emma Olivier, Twenty Percent

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123I first noticed Emma Olivier when she set up her own company, Twenty Percent, an advisory company based in Australia that provides high-quality services to help organisations unleash the power of the 20% of Australians who have a disability.
I was immediately struck by her ability to be out, loud and proud about her own experience of disability. When we finally met for dinner in London I saw at

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Confident Conversations Series One - Samantha Renke, Author

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123Samantha is an actress, broadcaster, writer, disability rights campaigner, diversity and inclusion consultant and keynote speaker. And her story starts when she is born with a rare genetic condition Osteogenesis Imperfecta - commonly known as Brittle Bones condition.
Having started her career as a teacher Samantha is now a regular face on our TV screens and skilfully uses her own lived experience

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Confident Conversations Series One - Michelle Irving, Career and Chronic Illness

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123Michelle Irving is a true pioneer and thought leader in the Chronic Illness space. She is the Founder and CEO of “Career and Chronic Illness” and has over 15 years experience in Mentoring and Executive Coaching for people navigating their career while living with chronic illness. Her work comes out of her own lived experience of navigating chronic illness and a demanding career.
Michelle is

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Confident Conversations Series One - Sara Weller, BT and Virgin Money

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123When Sara is first diagnosed with MS she asks the medics , ‘how did I get it?, what can I do to make it better? and what is it going to do to me?.’

Pointed questions that not everyone asks when we first acquire a medical condition that can disrupt our working lives. And because she did not get clear information she keeps her personal information private and doesn’t share it too widely.

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Confident Conversations Series One - Leanne Cahill, Bravissimo

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123In this conversation you will meet Leanne Cahill, the Chief Executive of Bravissimo. I could have spent all day talking to her. She is ‘real’ and she sits confidently in her leadership space and the opportunity and responsibility she has as the custodian of their business culture.
Leanne was born with one hand and shares with us the challenges that she experienced as a child growing up while

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