20 Years On: A Mindset Reset
- 29/10/2025 – 10/12/2025
- Virtual Summit
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Step Away. Think Deeply. Return Renewed.
From Reflection to Renewal: Building the Futures We Need.
Join global leaders, change-makers, and visionaries for an immersive 7-week gathering online.
Twenty years after the groundbreaking Diversity Mindset 2005, we meet again — to take stock, share truth, and co-create humane, sustainable futures.
What’s Happening
from Reflection to Action
- Wednesday
- 29 October 2025
- 2:30PM – 4:30PM WET
Diversity Mindset Kick-off – Revisiting 2005 & Setting the Compass
We did this 20 years ago. What’s changed?
Has the world gotten better or worse?
What lessons have we learned and not learned?
Where do we take things from here?
When it comes to environmental and social governance, how can we create greater understanding, collaboration and cohesion between social(ists) and environmental(ists)?
Diversity Mindset Kick-off –Diversity Mindset All-star Team Reflecting on Diversity Mindset 2005, taking a critical look at the state of the world today and clarifying everyone’s input for DM2025.
The first afternoon opens with a powerful welcome from Dr.Jude Smith Rachele. This will be followed by keynote reflections from pioneers of the original Diversity Mindset 2005.
Together, we’ll look back, speak truth about where we are now, and set our compass for the days ahead.
All-stars: Dr. Jude Smith Rachele, Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly, Rollin Rachele, Lynne Chambers, Polly Harrar, Sabine Ziem-Milojević, Madeleine Mauwer, Eylül Kılıç, Ideja Bajra, Konkankoh Joshua, Dr. Kim Nolan, Ling Lo, Louise Kjellerup Roper and Esther Ajudeonu.
- Tuesday
- 4 November 2025
- 2:30PM - 4:30 PM WET
Contemplative Leadership & Sustainable Democracy
Can you actually change the world if you’re so stressed out your perish along the way?
Can we have environmental sustainability without democracy?
Why is it so much easier to address the environment and climate change than it is to address the social and human part of ESG?
People first. Planet second. We will start our afternoon with a focus on personal health and wellbeing. Led by Dr. Kim Nolan, we’ll explore the importance of inner sustainable development, and practices to ensure we reclaim and maintain our own personal health and wellbeing. Protect yourself. Then protect the world.
We gather to explore Sustainable Democracy. Polly Harrar will share the law enforcement works she’s doing globally to protect and advance women’s rights and safety. Lawyer Eylül Kılıç of CNBC‑e in Turkey will address how environmental sustainability is dependent upon well-functioning democracies. She will lead us through a deep dialogue on our roles and responsibilities in safeguarding democracy and protecting our natural resources for future generations.
All-stars: Dr. Kim Nolan, Polly Harrar and Eylül Kılıç
- Tuesday
- 11 November 2025
- 2:30PM - 4:30 PM WET
Complexity & Creativity
Can you change complex systems if you don’t understand complexity theory?
Is compliance getting in the way of our creativity?
How can we break free of tradition to create the dramatic changes need to achieve sustainable development?
Where does art come into play?
Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly will take us on a playful deep-dive into complex systems, and teach us how better to navigate complexity in order to achieve sustainable improvements. Rollin Rachele will explore the importance of art, creativity and innovation when it comes to transforming cultures and finding new and disruptive pathways.
All-stars: Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly and Rollin Rachele
- Tuesday
- 18 November 2025
- 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM WET
Cultural Transformation & Intergenerational learning
Why is diversity, equity and inclusion weakening over time, and close to abolition?
Are you feeling too old to cope?
How do you feel about extinction?
Are you scared of or excited by AI?
Do you have the transformation agent skills for the present and the future?
Dr. Jude Smith Rachele will lead us off with an exploration of The Two Loops Model of Cultural Transformation — a framework for navigating the beginnings, endings and new beginnings of complex systems. This flows into a lively presentation from Ideja Bajra encouraging and challenging us to embrace new technologies, in particular AI, and to learn from one another across generations.
All-stars: Dr. Jude Smith Rachele, Ideja Bajra and Esther Ajudeonu
- Tuesday
- 25 November 2025
- 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM WET
Climate recovery & Indigenous Wisdom
How far have we come with our current climate action strategies?
Is climate change really only about reducing carbon footprints and greenhouse gases?
Do you know what the Coriolis effect is?
Are you ready for your world to be turned upside-down?
Does indigenous wisdom from the southern hemisphere already provide us with solutions to climate change and social inequality?
Sabine Ziem-Milojević will put the marker in the sand with her work on hydrogen and renewable energy. Dr. Tony Kendle will focus us upon the wisdom of nature, and how he is working with nature-based solution to address our climate challenges. To top off our time together, Konkankoh Joshua, an Indigenous systems design thinker and permaculturist The African Way. Flipping the globe from South to North, he will demonstrate the power of indigenous African values rooted in natural systems and how they are helping to achieve sustainable development outcomes.
All-stars: Sabine Ziem-Milojević, Dr. Tony Kendle and Konkankoh Joshua
- Tuesday
- 2 December 2025
- 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM WET
Organisational & Personal Wellbeing
How might we ensure we care for and protect the wellbeing of our staff and of other people in our ecosystem, as we as do the environment?
How do we sustain our organisations as we seek to effect change in the outside world?
How can you tell when to keep fighting and when to give yourself a rest?
Lynne Chambers on Diversity, Leadership and Wellbeing and the importance of caring for oneself and for the people with whom we work to transform the world. Madeleine Mauwer will then bring in home to the responsibility we have to look after the humans in the organizations that are driving external sustainable development.
All-stars: Lynne Chambers and Madeleine Mauwer
- Tuesday
- 10 Decemer 2025
- 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM WET
Diversity Mindset Hand-off – Galvanizing Our Community and Preparing for Success in 2045
What might we do to be more humane towards one another?
What have we unleased and created during our time together?
What are some of the projects we All-stars can work on together as a unified whole?
What further support and learning do we need to make the shifts in thought, behaviour and performance?
What practices might we continue to help us to maintain health, sanity in the present and a realistic hope for the future?
Our All-star Presenters come back again, on Human Rights Day, to review our collective Diversity Mindset 2025 learning. Together we will identify new or existing projects we can support one another on collaboratively and collectively, projects that reflect a real, intentional and strategic blending of social, economic, environmental, cultural, spiritual and artistic dimensions. Dr. Kim Nolan brings us back to inner sustainability, grounding us in life, joy and hope in the present.
All-stars: Dr. Jude Smith Rachele, Professor Eve Mitleton-Kelly, Rollin Rachele, Lynne Chambers, Polly Harrar, Sabine Ziem-Milojević, Madeleine Mauwer, Eylül Kılıç, Ideja Bajra, Konkankoh Joshua, Dr. Tony Kendle, Dr. Kim Nolan, Ling Lo, Louise Kjellerup Roper and Esther Ajudeonu.
Guided by Global Thinkers
Meet the Minds Shaping the Future
From world-renowned academics to indigenous knowledge keepers and entrepreneurs, our speakers bring insight, vision, and lived experience. Together, they’ll help us navigate complexity and imagine sustainable, equitable futures. Keep an eye out for additional movers and shapers.
CEO & Co-Founder of Abundant Sun
Rollin Rachele
CEO – Volans
London School of Economics and Cambridge (retired), & the EMK Complexity Group
Executive Coaching & Consulting
Legal & Compliance Manager at CNBC-e, Turkey
Biodiversity Specialist / Associate at The Sensory Trust
Indigenous Systems Design Thinker at the African Way
Founder of Edvance AI
Change Agent / Human Rights Activist / Organiser
Sustainable & Resilient Energy Systems Consultant
Contemplative Leader & Irreverent Buddhist
Social Impact Leader & Communications Specialist
Founder/ CEO Primacy Youth Development Initiative.
Founder & CEO of The Sharan Project.
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Student Registration
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Join the conversation from anywhere in the world.
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Digital reflection kit with schedule, speaker bios, and journaling prompts
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Networking with global leaders, innovators, and changemakers
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Participation in online breakout discussions and networking
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Access 90 days a recordings of all streamed sessions
Virtual Registration
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Join the conversation from anywhere in the world.
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Digital reflection kit with schedule, speaker bios, and journaling prompts
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Networking with global leaders, innovators, and changemakers
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Participation in online breakout discussions and networking
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90 days access to recordings of all streamed sessions
Enhanced Registration
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Join the conversation from anywhere in the world.
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Digital reflection kit with schedule, speaker bios, and journaling prompts
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Networking with global leaders, innovators, and changemakers
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6 Months access to recordings of all streamed sessions
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Participation in the Jan - June 2026 All-star roundtables
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We are honoured to be supported by organisations committed to diversity, sustainability, and prosocial learning. Their vision helps make this gathering possible.
