Team

If one has courage, nothing can dim the light that shines from within.

– Maya Angelou

Aggie Mutuma

CEO and Lead Inclusion Director

Aggie is a passionate Leadership coach, Inclusion and Anti-Racism expert and engaging speaker who excels at partnering organisations to build winning cultures. Her recent accolades include being voted the 5th Most influential HR thinker in 2024 by fellow people and talent leaders. 

Aggie’s career spans over two decades where she has coached and empowered C-Suite teams, lead people teams and partnered organisations through transformational change as they create diverse, inclusive and engaged cultures.

She works with Exco leaders and their teams to deliver DEI strategies and Anti-Racism strategies. Cross industry organisations she has supported include global FTSE100 organisations, consultancy firms, retailers, third sector and public sector organisations.

Aggie combines her deep strategic thinking and her compassionately challenging coaching approach to create psychologically safe spaces for reflection, behaviour change and sustainable organisational change.

Aggie’s recent focus areas include:

  • Leading Board and C-Suite Team advisory and strategy facilitation
  • Developing global diversity, inclusion and racial equity strategies for large organisations and SME’s
  • Exco inclusion coaching and support – including both 121 and group coaching
  • CPO and CHRO coaching, advisory and inclusion/anti-racism education
  • Building People and talent team inclusion and race fluency capability
  • Partnering with the CIPD to educate and advise CPOs and CHROs on inclusion and anti-racism workforce strategies
  • Advisory for the people profession on developing anti-racist organisations and having conversations about race

https://www.cipd.co.uk/knowledge/fundamentals/relations/diversity/conversations-race-work#gref

As an individual, Aggie is known for her disarming, authentic and candid approach which creates a psychologically safe environment for open sharing and growth. She is described as engaging, commercially astute, an effective confidante and as an inspirational coach and mentor.

Our purpose in Mahogany Inclusion Partners is to make the world an inclusive place where everyone can thrive.

This connects beautifully to my purpose in life as I understand it right now which is to spread love and light.

I love the fact that the work I do with our clients every day is so aligned with my life purpose, I feel very blessed.

I am a qualified Data Protection Officer and GDPR expert.