About Us
Who we are
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We are Shantelle Thompson, Lilian Musyawa Kikuvi & Gemma Saunders, also known as BBTC. We we help organizations create cultures of belonging and respect.
We do this by weaving the collective practices of our First Nations, African, and Queer cultural influences and the ancient principles of storytelling and conversation.
Our approach isn’
We are Shantelle Thompson, Lilian Musyawa Kikuvi & Gemma Saunders, also known as BBTC. We we help organizations create cultures of belonging and respect.
We do this by weaving the collective practices of our First Nations, African, and Queer cultural influences and the ancient principles of storytelling and conversation.
Our approach isn’t a 'new solution'. It is based on approaches that have existed and been practiced for thousands of years – through brave conversations and storytelling.
Our promise
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Our promise
Our promise is to shift people from mandate to movement by crafting moments of connection, belonging and collective change.
We will meet you where you are at and deliver impact via our signature offerings:
- Workshops for all employees.
- Activator program for leaders and agents of change.
- Digital program for on-demand learning.
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Partner with us
Partner with us
Partner with us
The Becoming Better Together Collective (BBTC) offer a bespoke program where authentic, courageous conversations and storytelling shape workplaces where everyone feels respected, and truth-telling thrives.
We believe that once we know ourselves, our contexts and each other better, we can do better, together. By partnering together, we wil
The Becoming Better Together Collective (BBTC) offer a bespoke program where authentic, courageous conversations and storytelling shape workplaces where everyone feels respected, and truth-telling thrives.
We believe that once we know ourselves, our contexts and each other better, we can do better, together. By partnering together, we will open up a vital and action-oriented discussion about diversity, equity and inclusion that will promote a culture of respect and belonging. At the heart of the program is equipping people to know themselves and others better.
The BECOMING BETTER TOGETHER COLLECTIVE PRACTICE
Our signature practice
One thing we are deeply proud of is our ability to co-create impact by following a few critical steps. Here's what we do, together:
- Understand your baseline. Where are you people at? What do they feel, know, do, experience, want, expect and understand?
- Co-design a solution based on our successful program framework.
- Deliver a bespoke offering that will ignite individual agency and foster cultures of respect and belonging in the workplace.
- Generate organisational and individual action planning that spark accountability.
- Offer a toolkit that supports action and keeps the fire burning.
- Evaluate the experience and the impact.
The Context
Together, we need to accelerate Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) outcomes by consulting and offering DEI training. Despite the cupcakes, hashtags, black squares on social media and unconscious bias training, we have not closed these vital gaps. By leveraging the ancient practices of storytelling and conversation, we guide people from a fear of getting it wrong to one of responsibility: we all have to address historical and current inequities & barriers. The slow pace of change calls us to do things differently. To go back to our roots. We are living in a century of advancements and human progress. If we can achieve this in other spaces, why can't we revolutionize our workplaces?
We have the capability. We have the desire.
Let’s become better, together.
Who we have worked with
