Why partner with us?

Our approach: intersectional, co-designed, human-centred

Voicing Voices began in the middle of the pandemic, when leaders everywhere were forced to rethink how they worked, connected, and delivered. What started as an urgent effort to provide education and capacity-building tools has grown into a movement: empowering leaders to shape spaces where everyone is activated, accountable, and aligned with clear outcomes.

Through this journey, we discovered something powerful, when you humanise spaces, you unlock transparency, authenticity, and long-term solutions. People dig deeper, contribute fully, and create change that lasts. That’s what it means to voice voices: moving beyond top-down leadership to collective impact, where every perspective strengthens the whole.

Today, we bring that discovery to organisations around the world, helping them design collaborative systems that deliver measurable results for their people, their business, and the world around them.

Our Services

Ayan Said, Founder & CEO

Ayan Said is a British-Somali educator, entrepreneur, and inclusive leadership strategist whose dual heritage and diverse career path fuel her mission to reimagine leadership for a changing world. Having navigated and overcome systemic barriers herself, she brings lived experience and professional expertise together to create pathways where others can thrive.

With more than 15 years of multidisciplinary leadership across science, education, and strategy, Ayan has worked with organisations including Moody’s, Unilever, and Fitch, alongside governments, multinationals, and grassroots movements across Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. She has contributed to global platforms like UN campaigns, the African Union, UNESCO initiatives on education, the United Nations General Assembly, UK Anthropy at the Eden Project, and New York Climate Week, where she amplifies the voices of communities too often left unheard.

Through her leadership at Voicing Voices, Ayan is building a legacy of activating people, humanising systems, and designing futures where prosperity is shared. Her unique ability to blend science, data, and design with storytelling, equity, and resilience has positioned her as a thought leader in ESG, inclusive leadership, and systemic transformation.