British Mensa: Introducing Inclusion – SMART Planning

Following Lenna Cumberbatch's Talking Point article 'Inclusion is Good for Everyone' (March/April 2026 IQ, pp 36-37), this interactive session will support attendees in achieving their own inclusion journey. Lenna will explore core inclusion concepts and language, and there will also be an opportunity for you to develop your own SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-bound) inclusion objective.

There's also homework! Come prepared with an inclusion objective you would like to achieve (work or personal) and we'll workshop as many as we can in small groups.

The talk is free for members to attend. The Zoom link will be sent to all registrants the week commencing 30 March.

To register, visit: mymensa.mensa.org.uk/event/view/Introducing-Inclusion-2-4-26

Please Note: To register, you must be a guest member of British Mensa. It's easy as pie to do so. Simply send your request, along with your membership number, to: membership@mensa.org.uk.

Speaker Bio: Lenna Cumberbatch

With over 27 years working on inclusion, Lenna has held various strategic and operational roles across multiple different sectors including recruitment, housing, healthcare, higher education and the research environment in the UK and overseas.

Taking a strategic change approach to diversity and inclusion (an area of expertise), Lenna's roles have included the Wellcome Trust, the University of Cambridge, the Royal Society and on the Communications Consumer Panel and Advisory Committee for Older and Disabled People for Ofcom. For the European Commission Research Executive Agency, Lenna audits, reviews and monitors multi-million Euro grant applications and projects as one of their team of experts.

Committed to community, Lenna has volunteered for King's Health Partners Haematology, Be the Business – small business advisors, anti-bullying charity Diversity Role Models, and Galop, the LGBT+ anti-abuse charity where she is Chair of the board.

Her speaking engagements have included presenting at the Council of Europe, a keynote at the Portuguese Annual Science Communication Congress, and on BBC Scotland. A member of the Chartered Management Institute and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, Lenna is a Toastmaster's Competent Communicator and Competent Leader. She has a BA with a double major in English Literature and Women's & Gender studies. Her MBA dissertation was on revalidation, the appraisal system for UK doctors.

For more information, contact Danielle Spittle at danielle@mensa.org.uk.