Blessing Mutamba is a multi-award-winning programme leader, TEDx speaker and national and international pageant queen, known for designing and scaling high-impact inclusive initiatives across complex, fast-moving organizations.

She serves as a trusted board member and advisor to organizations ranging from £50k to £3M in revenue, supporting founders and leadership teams on growth strategy, governance, inclusive leadership and stakeholder engagement. Her approach balances commercial rigour with people-centred thinking.

Drawing on her lived experience of overcoming racism, discrimination and systemic barriers, Blessing empowers individuals to build confidence and challenge inequity. She is recognized for connecting personal narrative to organizational performance, helping leaders understand how culture, belonging and inclusion directly shape engagement and long-term sustainability.

Keynote Title:
Start growing and stop shrinking: An exploration of setting boundaries as women in the workplace

Proposed outcome;
Very often, people have opinions of how we should feel about growth and transition periods in our professional careers as women. This talk explores how to decide what we take on board, how to cut out the unnecessary noise. Attendees will feel empowered to lean into those uncomfortable emotions and use them to help themselves grow out of them rather than shrinking into the definitions and stereotypes imposed by others