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How Ngozi Weller & Wayne Bennett Are Changing Manchester Forever
20 October 2025Podcast Summary
The brilliant Ngozi Weller and Wayne Bennett join the We Are PoWEr Podcast – bringing honesty, courage, and vision to a powerful conversation about racial equity, authentic leadership, and creating real change in Manchester and beyond.
Their partnership began on a train journey – a chance meeting that sparked a movement. Wayne, a visionary entrepreneur, and Ngozi, a fearless strategist and advocate, combined their complementary strengths to co-found The Racial Equity Group (REG) within Pro Manchester. What started as a shared conversation has evolved into RegConnect – a groundbreaking event that’s redefining how inclusion, business, and opportunity intersect.
Driven by the sobering reality that while Manchester’s ethnic minority population exceeds 18%, representation in leadership sits at just 5%, Ngozi and Wayne are confronting inequity head-on. Their work is about turning awareness into action – bringing corporate leaders and underrepresented professionals into the same room to connect, collaborate, and create lasting impact.
In this episode:
- How a train journey sparked a movement for racial equity in Manchester
- Building the Racial Equity Group and RegConnect: collaboration over confrontation
- The reality of representation: 18% of the population, 5% of leadership
- Why courage, not comfort, drives meaningful inclusion
- Turning diversity into business impact – and the data that proves it
- How authenticity builds movements that last
- The legacy Wayne and Ngozi are creating for the next generation
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