Episode 108

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31st Jul 2025

'The Race Paradox' Reimagining Leadership with Dr Carlton Brown

This week, we’re joined by the brilliant Dr Carlton Brown - author, business leader, and the man bold enough to call me his work wife. 

We’re getting stuck into the real stuff: race, leadership, power, and why good intentions just aren’t enough. 

If you’ve ever felt like progress on equity is moving at a snail’s pace (or backwards some days), this one’s going to challenge you - in the best way.

Highlights:

(03:10) Carlton’s unexpected start... in pest control

(11:22) Why purpose must be commercially viable

(21:45) The moment the Black Entrepreneur Report began

(30:08) What the Race Paradox actually means

(40:12) Why your boardroom might be a bubble

(53:17) The thing that still gives us hope

Find out more:

Preorder The Race Paradox HERE.

Breaking the Brown Glass Ceiling (Aurora whitepaper) HERE.

Time to Change Report HERE.

Connect with us here:

Website: https://aurorawellnessgroup.co.uk/

Ngozi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ngozi-weller-aurora/

Obehi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/obehi-alofoje-psychologist-aurora/

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About the Podcast

The Wellbeing Rebellion
Welcome to The Wellbeing Rebellion, an award-winning podcast.

We’re Ngozi Weller and Obehi Alofoje, Directors at Aurora — a leadership and organisational effectiveness consultancy.

This podcast explores how the way organisations are led shapes performance, trust, wellbeing and culture over time.

The challenge with many approaches to wellbeing and culture is that they place responsibility on individuals to cope, rather than examining the leadership decisions, behaviours and systems that create the conditions people are working within.

This is where the conversation needs to shift.

On The Wellbeing Rebellion, we explore leadership behaviour, organisational systems and decision-making under pressure through honest conversations with senior leaders and advisors navigating real organisational complexity.

Some episodes are just us. Others bring in leaders and experts reflecting candidly on what works, what doesn’t, and what leadership requires in practice.

If you’re responsible for people, culture or organisational performance — and want to think more critically about how leadership shapes outcomes — this podcast is for you.

About your hosts

Obehi Alofoje

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Obehi is a psychologist and culture change consultant who helps senior HR and business leaders reduce employee burnout, absenteeism & talent attrition through mental wellbeing strategy, training & coaching.

Ngozi Weller

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Ngozi Weller is a culture change consultant and an ICF accredited coach who helps build resilience into your business by creating psychologically safe workplaces that enable employees to thrive.