EDI Staff Mentoring

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Led by Dr Malcolm Cocks and Dr Enya Doyle, these one-to-one coaching sessions offer EDI leads a rare opportunity for personalised, expert support in navigating the complex demands of equity and inclusion work.

The sessions are designed to help participants clarify their strategic vision, strengthen leadership capacity, and sustain personal resilience in roles that often carry emotional and organisational pressure. Through structured reflection, constructive challenge, and practical planning, participants will be guided to translate commitment into action while maintaining balance and purpose.

Each 60-minute session provides space to:

  • Explore live challenges and identify realistic solutions within your organisational context
  • Access proven tools, frameworks, and resources developed through years of EDI leadership and systems-change practice
  • Learn from real-world examples and lessons drawn from diverse sectors
  • Build confidence and momentum to influence meaningful, sustainable change

Facilitators will draw on their extensive experience in higher education, community, and organisational development to provide a supportive yet pragmatic environment for growth.

Sessions are recommended twice per half-term, at 60 minutes each, with timing arranged at a mutually convenient slot.

For more information, please contact info@aceducationnetwork.com

Dr Malcolm Cocks

Malcolm is an Inclusion expert and English Teacher with 15 years’ experience. He is on the advisory board for the African and Caribbean Education Network with a particular focus on Research, Policy, and Teaching & Learning.

He is also on the Steering Group for the Schools’ Inclusion Alliance and remains committed to helping schools foster anti-racist cultures and champions the inclusion of pupils and teachers with African and Caribbean heritage.

Malcolm has worked as a teacher and/or Inclusion Lead in some of London’s most prominent Independent Schools.

Educated in Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom, he studied for his BA at Oxford and his PhD at King’s College, London. He has lectured in Literature and Visual Cultures at the University of London and in 2014, he was elected to a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Shakespeare’s Globe.He has recently embarked on a research project at the University of the West Indies with a focus on decolonised curricula & inclusion.

Dr Enya Doyle

Enya’s collaborative, compassionate and creative approach to driving social change has been recognised on local and national levels for almost fifteen years.

As a consultant, Enya brings valuable experience of taking a wide range of organisations through their inclusion journey from the very beginning, by helping them to develop and deliver measurable, achievable goals, through audits, training, and policy development. Enya takes a pragmatic approach to leading what are often perceived to be difficult and uncomfortable conversations and enjoys working at all levels and with a variety of people, be that one-to-one with senior leaders and governors, with small teams and committees, and on an organisation-wide level. Enya loves working with parents and carers.

Enya specialises in challenging gender-based discrimination, sexism, and sexual misconduct with intersectionality at the heart of her work. She holds a PhD from Durham University on gender diversity and inclusion in music, which reflects her commitment to scrutinising the often subtle and underlying forms of exclusion embedded in organisational systems and culture. Enya has enjoyed working with universities and arts organisations across the world and has led inclusion in a prominent independent school. She has presented her research in the UK, Australia and the United States. Enya has a track record of providing effective and insightful training and thoughtful, evidence-based guidance on how best to embed a culture of belonging for all.

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