55: Creating Diversity Through Consistent Visibility with Ashanti Bentil-Dhue

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are in for a treat today! We are delighted to be speaking to Ashanti Bentil-Dhue. Ashanti is the CEO of EventMind, which provides training and consultancy for businesses looking to engage virtually with their audience. She comes from the corporate world where she was Regulatory Compliance AVP for Santander Bank, Barclaycard, and the Financial Ombudsman Service. Ashanti co-created the UK’s first nation-wide anti-racism and allyship project for women in Human Resources (HR), an industry that is 83% female and white. She is also a co-founder of 100 White Allies, Diversity Ally, and Black In Events, which are consultancies that provide support for organizations to be proactively anti-racist and inclusive.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, we cover three main topics. They are diversity and inclusion, starting and running your own business, and online events.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You will learn a lot from our fascinating conversation with Ashanti today. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!</span></p> <p><strong>Ashanti Bentil-Dhue’s bio:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ashanti Bentil-Dhue is Founder and CEO at EventMind, a market leader in the virtual meetings and events sector. EventMind provides training, consultancy, and delivery for businesses looking to engage virtually with their audience and community. Ashanti is currently a judge on several awards panels, including the Eventex Awards, Independent Publisher Awards, and the Virtual Event Institute Awards. She is also a co-founder of 100 White Allies, Diversity Ally, and Black In Events, consultancies that provide support to organizations who want to be proactively anti-racist and inclusive, both internally and for their service users. You can connect with her on Linkedin. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ashanti can bring the experience she gained from five years spent as a Regulatory Compliance AVP for the likes of Santander Bank, Barclay