About Inclusion Bites & your host, Joanne Lockwood

What this is

Inclusion Bites is a podcast of honest, bite-sized conversations about inclusion, belonging and what it takes to be seen at work — a SEE Change Happen production, hosted by Joanne Lockwood, The Inclusive Culture Expert. More than 250 conversations had since February 2020 and more than 22,000 listens, with a new episode released every Thursday.

This isn’t a show about theory or box-ticking. It’s a warm, honest space where practitioners, leaders and everyday change-makers share what inclusion actually looks like once the meeting ends and the real work begins — challenging yet supportive, curious rather than preachy, so every episode leaves you with something you can genuinely do.

Why it exists

Because inclusion is decided in the small moments — the meeting after the meeting, the word someone chose, the story nobody asked for. Policies don’t change those moments; hearing how other people handled them does. Every episode is one person’s account of a moment like that, and what it taught them.

Who it’s for

People who have to make inclusion real on a Monday: HR and people leaders, D&I and talent professionals, managers, founders — and anyone who has ever felt on the outside of the room and wants to know they’re not alone. Listeners here act on what they hear.

Who you’ll hear

Guests so far have come from or live in 30 countries across six continents — every one except Antarctica. Coaches, consultants and speakers; practitioners doing the work inside organisations; founders and executives; authors and researchers; and people whose only credential is having lived it — which is often the one that matters. Our guests aren’t all DEI specialists or big names, and that’s the point: if a story can move someone from awareness to action, it belongs on Inclusion Bites.

The conversations cluster around five broad threads: workplace culture and systems, lived experience and identity, mental health and wellbeing, inclusive leadership, and careers and confidence.

Your host

Joanne Lockwood is The Inclusive Culture Expert and the founder of SEE Change Happen, a keynote speaker and workshop facilitator who has worked with more than 200 organisations and delivered over 1,000 sessions — from global conferences to intimate leadership away-days, from FTSE 100 firms to public sector bodies.

Before founding SEE Change Happen, Joanne spent more than two decades in IT and STEM — serving in the Royal Air Force, building cable TV start-ups, and delivering technology for blue-chip financial institutions.

Joanne is also a transgender woman. It isn’t the headline, and it isn’t the lead message — professional credibility comes first — but it is the depth behind the work. Her mantra: Smile, Engage, Educate — warm, direct, never preachy.

More than a feed

Every episode has a full transcript, chapters and a summary, and the whole catalogue is searchable by theme and meaning, not just title — look for “neurodivergent”, “menopause” or “class” and you’ll find the conversations that actually explore it. Full transcripts and chapter markers make every conversation accessible, quotable and easy to navigate. And because the whole catalogue is published as open feeds and machine-readable indexes, search engines, AI assistants and researchers can read, cite and surface these stories too, so a single honest conversation keeps working long after the recording stops.

Themed Weekend Update collections gather four episodes on one thread every Saturday.

Listen · Be a guest

Start anywhere — pick a title that speaks to you. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or YouTube. Got a story? Apply to be a guest.