Last week, Join Our Table hosted an inspiring workshop on personal branding, led by, Collette Philip Brand by Me. Personal branding has become something of a buzzword in recent years. Scroll through LinkedIn and you'll find countless articles, templates and AI-generated posts promising to help you build your brand. But this workshop took a different approach. Rather than focusing on visibility or self-promotion, the conversation centred on something far more important: unders

For the third year running, we returned to Advertising Week Europe to curate a space centring Black women’s voices—by Black women, for everyone. This year’s conversation focused on the unstoppable power of Black female brands, bringing together JOT founders Nadine Leighton and Elizabeth Anyaegbuna in conversation with Jayne Doherty (Afrique Spirits) and Shalom Ijeoma Lloyd MBE (Naturally Tiwa), respectively. The response was immediate. The room filled quickly—then kept fillin