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Our Core Areas of Work
Conference and Sector Engagement
WITS designs and delivers strategic, purpose-led events that bring together leaders, practitioners, and lived-experience voices to drive sector progress, with a focus on Black women empowerment.
We deliver:
- The annual WITS CPD accredited conference
- Local and national roundtables
- Cross-sector learning and engagement sessions
- Bespoke conference planning services and convening for partner organisations, including those that support uniformed services.
Our events create safe, credible, and impactful spaces for dialogue, challenge, and collective action.
Research & Thought Leadership
Women in the Shade gathers and interprets original evidence on progression, culture and psychological safety, giving visibility to experiences that remain under‑recorded in formal sector data. We generate insight that helps organisations understand the experiences, barriers and opportunities affecting Black women in uniformed services, ultimately supporting their empowerment.
Our research informs policy and practice, shapes sector‑wide learning, and drives evidence‑based decision‑making across uniformed services. Our work includes sector research and insight reports, academic and practitioner roundtables, contributions to thought leadership, and evidence reviews and thematic analysis.
Through our conference and convening work, we create credible, accessible knowledge that strengthens organisational understanding and supports meaningful, measurable change.
Women in the Shade Development Programme
The Women in the Shade Development Programme is a structured, evidence-informed initiative that champions Black women empowerment by supporting the progression, wellbeing, and retention of Black and minoritised women (officers and staff).
This CPD accredited programme offers psychologically safe, professionally facilitated environments, essential for participants to:
- Build leadership confidence and capability
- Navigate organisational structures and complexity
- Understand and address systemic barriers
- Align personal development with organisational priorities
- Contribute to positive cultural and organisational change
Our approach acknowledges that individual development and organisational systems are interconnected—sustainable progress necessitates attention to both. Additionally, our conference planning services ensure that events focusing on uniformed services support can effectively highlight these critical issues.
WITS Assessment Framework
The WITS Assessment Framework is our sector-informed tool designed to help organizations understand how their systems, culture, and practices impact Black women, ultimately supporting Black women empowerment.
We provide:
- Framework implementation and guidance
- Diagnostic reviews and organisational baselining
- Action planning and progress monitoring
- Support to embed equitable practice into everyday systems, including conference planning services and uniformed services support.
The framework enables organizations to move from awareness to structured, measurable improvement.