The Team

Inclusion Junction is built around a simple belief: that the most important leadership skill in a mixed, complex workplace is the ability to manage people who are different from you - and that it can be learned.

Everyone on this team brings that belief to life from a different angle.


Rani Dhanda

Director

Early in my career, I worked as a research associate alongside a senior colleague who never made expectations clear. I guessed what was expected of me. My work went unacknowledged. I felt invisible - and eventually, disposable. That experience of being managed badly, and what it costs the person on the receiving end, is why I do what I do.

I founded Inclusion Junction because I've seen what happens when leaders don't get this right - and what becomes possible when they do.

Over two decades working across professional services, higher education, and the third sector - including serving on a Personnel Committee dealing with staff rights, handbooks, and sensitive organisational concerns, and providing direct support to a Director on complex staff matters - I've supported leaders to have the conversations they've been avoiding, make fairer decisions under pressure, and build teams where different people can actually do their best work.

I previously taught at Strathclyde University on working across differences, and I bring that academic grounding directly into practical, sector-specific leadership work. Clients tell me consistently that they leave with language, tools, and confidence they can use immediately - not training that sits on a shelf.

Inclusion Junction holds CPD accreditation, and all programmes meet the standards required for continuing professional development in regulated sectors.


Associates

Rachel Timmoney

Rachel is an ADHD Coach, Mentor, Trainer, and Advocate whose work centres on trauma-informed, compassionate, and neurodivergent first support

Graeme Lannigan

Graeme is a former Police Scotland inclusion specialist with deep experience of inclusion challenges in large, complex organisations. He brings frontline insight into how difference plays out in real workplace settings and works directly with Inclusion Junction on training delivery.


Advisory Team

Vicky Petersen

Vicky is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and Strategic HR & People Transformation Leader with over 20 years' senior HR leadership experience. She brings expertise in organisational change, governance and inclusion, and supports Inclusion Junction with business case development, buyer insight and strengthening the Advisory Team.

Aladin Ali

Aladin is a holistic wellness expert, entrepreneur and trusted mentor to Inclusion Junction. She brings lived experience insight, strategic business support and a strong human perspective to our work. Aladin regularly brings fresh ideas, challenges our thinking and encourages us to think bigger about what is possible, while keeping the work grounded in people and real-life experience.

Michael Dean

Michael is an experienced solicitor, admitted across Scotland, England and Wales, and Ireland. He provides legal and regulatory insight that keeps our work relevant to the realities of professional services firms - and brings deep networks across the Scottish legal sector that help us understand the specific pressures and priorities firms are navigating right now.

Mubbasher Khanzada

Mubbasher develops technology-driven businesses across AI, cybersecurity, blockchain, and energy. He provides strategic business support and challenges us to think about how the commercial landscape is shifting - including how the expectations of increasingly diverse client bases are changing what professional services firms need from their leaders

Ineta Joksaite

Ineta is a community wealth and digital innovation specialist who brings sound business advice, strategic thinking and a generous network to Inclusion Junction. She helps us spot opportunities, make useful connections and think more boldly about what to try next. Her encouragement to give things a go and not be afraid of testing new ideas is a valuable part of her support.

Graeme Lannigan

Graeme works as a Will Planning Consultant - supporting individuals and families through significant life decisions. In addition to his delivery role in Inclusion Junction, he also sits in our advisory team bringing wide-ranging connections across the public and third sectors and strategic insight drawn from his frontline experience.


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