From Outsider to Change-Maker: Sara Wajid on Power, Belonging and Leadership | Tell Beyond 🎤

Описание: What does it take to move from outsider to leader?

In this episode of Tell Beyond, Sara Wajid MBE reflects on growing up as the only non-white family on her street, learning early how to read a room, and understanding what it means to belong. Or not.

She shares how those early experiences shaped her instinct to question systems, build alliances, and eventually step into positions of real influence as co-CEO of Birmingham Museums Trust.

This is a conversation about power: who has it, who doesn’t, and what happens when you decide to use yours differently.

Sara talks about:

Growing up between cultures and learning to translate the world

The emotional cost of being “the only one” in the room

Activism as care, not confrontation

Leading during uncertainty, and when there is no clear plan

Building movements like Museum Detox and creating space for others

Holding authority without losing empathy

She reflects on the tension between politeness and truth, between fitting in and speaking up, and what changes when you stop asking permission.

At its heart, this episode asks:
Who gets to tell the story?
And what happens when the outsider becomes the one holding the microphone?

A thoughtful, honest conversation about belonging, responsibility, and becoming the kind of leader you once searched for.

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