Silent Barriers, Lasting Impact: Tackling Microaggressions & Amplifying Your Leadership in Sustainability

Silent Barriers, Lasting Impact

Tackling Microaggressions & Amplifying Your Leadership in Sustainability

Microaggressions may seem small, but their effects can be profound. From the boardroom to stakeholder meetings, these subtle slights create silent barriers that undermine women’s leadership, energy, and influence in sustainability.

This session equips you with the awareness and tools to identify, respond to, and rise above these challenges so that your focus remains on creating lasting impact where it matters most.

You will leave this session with renewed self-awareness and a practical toolkit to support you in leading change with resilience and authority.

What you'll learn:

In this masterclass, you’ll discover:

• How microaggressions show up in sustainability contexts, from board conversations to external partnerships.

• The lasting impact they can have on confidence, credibility, and effectiveness as a leader.

• Practical, empowering strategies to respond with clarity and confidence while safeguarding your energy.

• Tools to strengthen your leadership voice, enabling you to amplify your impact and thrive in your role.

Who is this for?

This masterclass is for women working in sustainability (whether you’re early in your career or already in a leadership role) who want to:

• Recognise and address the subtle barriers that can hold them back.

• Build resilience and confidence in challenging workplace dynamics.

• Expand their leadership influence while protecting their energy.

If you’ve ever felt undermined, dismissed, or overlooked in your sustainability work, this series will help you transform those experiences into fuel for your growth and impact.

Your Expert Trainer:

Tribeni Chougule is an Inclusive Impact Coach and founder of Kinspace, a coaching and consulting practice that equips individuals and organisations to lead with clarity, courage, and conscience. Her work empowers those who are underestimated or underrepresented to reclaim their voice, navigate transitions, and drive meaningful change.

After a 25-year career in global financial services, technology, and sustainability, including senior leadership roles at Visa, Tribeni made a bold pivot into entrepreneurship. She now helps others do the same: break boundaries, challenge norms, and reimagine leadership as a force for social sustainability and inclusive impact.

Her approach blends strategic acumen with behavioural insight, lived experience, and nature-based practices that resource leaders for resilience and renewal. At Kinspace, she coaches across levels, with a focus on identity-aligned leadership, inclusive impact, and leading through uncertainty.

A Warwick Business School alumna (Executive MBA, Distinction), Tribeni is pursuing her Master’s in Coaching for Behavioural Change at Henley Business School. Her work has been recognised through honours including TechWomen100, the WeAreTheCity Rising Star Award, the Women in FinTech Powerlist, and the Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech. She is also the founder of a STEM bursary for girls from disadvantaged backgrounds— a reflection of her commitment to access, equity, and the next generation of boundary-breakers.

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About the Rooted to Rising Masterclass Series:

As women in sustainability, we often carry both the weight of the work and the invisible barriers that slow our progress.

Beyond the external challenges of entrenched systems, legislation, and resistance to change, we can also face subtle daily experiences that chip away at confidence, credibility, and leadership presence.

Rooted to Rising is a three-part masterclass series designed to help you navigate these realities and step fully into your power as a sustainability leader. Across the series, you’ll move from recognising external barriers, to embracing your authentic identity, to breaking free of self-limiting beliefs. Each session builds on the last, supporting you to stay rooted in self-awareness while rising with confidence and impact.

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Brought to you by the Women in Sustainability Network, a thriving global women's network of sustainability professionals leading and creating the green transition in our organisations and communities.

WINS supports such women, and those identifying as women, to have the capacity, courage and community they need to flourish and lead in these times. We do that through the WINS Membership, Network events and digital presence.

But don't just take our word for it!

86% of our recent survey respondents said they would recommend us to female colleagues. They also said...

"It's always been a welcoming, helpful and exciting place to meet new people, and learn new things"

"Inspiration, motivation, new ideas, new connections - feeling supported by an incredibly diverse array of fabulous females in this network - it's intangible but profound"