WHO WE ARE
The Healing Studio (Ọgwụ) was born from lived experience, a response to the stunted growth, silenced voices, and racialised barriers faced by Black and Brown professionals navigating systems not built for them.
Founded by Chidinma Victory Oforji, a multi-award-winning Lecturer, EDI Lead, PhD researcher, Poet and Black Author, who was first a marginalised migrant nurse, The Healing Studio is a bold act of reclamation of voice, of identity, and of power.
With deep roots in the UK and a global reach, we empower individuals and organisations through decolonial coaching, anti-racist leadership, and healing-centred training.
We don’t just offer services. We walk alongside those we serve, turning lived experience into leadership, and pain into purpose.
I know what it means to be silenced in rooms where your presence is tolerated but your power is denied.
This space was created so no one else has to walk that journey alone.
WHY WE EXIST
We exist for every Black and Brown professional who’s been told “you’re not ready.”
We exist to challenge tokenistic inclusion and create real, sustainable change.
We exist to support organisations that are ready to move from performative to intentional equity.
We are committed to ensuring no one climbs alone.
WHAT WE DO
Coaching and mentorship for Global Majority (Ethnically Minoritised) professionals
CPD-accredited leadership development (Leadership That Heals™)
Anti-imposter syndrome and confidence-building support
Consultancy and workshops for inclusive, trauma-informed organisations
Decolonial training that transforms systems from within
OUR FOUNDER'S STORY
Chidinma “Victory” Oforji (PhD candidate, MSc, FHEA, RN)
Leading from Lived Experience
Chidinma Victory Oforji is the founder of The Healing Studio, a leadership and development platform created to disrupt exclusion, challenge silence, and cultivate confident, visible Global Majority leadership in healthcare, education, and beyond.
With over a decade of nursing experience across Nigeria, Ireland, and the UK, Victory’s journey began as a migrant student nurse. Her early professional socialisation was shaped not only by learning how to care for patients, but by learning how systems quietly determine who belongs, who advances, and who is asked to shrink themselves to survive.
As she progressed, Victory encountered career stagnation, glass ceilings, and racialised bullying, patterns she later recognised were not isolated incidents, but systemic realities affecting many Global Majority nurses and students. She began to witness these same harms reproduced in nursing education and leadership spaces, where talent was present but opportunity was not equally distributed.
Rather than disengaging, Victory chose to respond with intention, scholarship, and action. Her doctoral research focuses on racialised bullying and discrimination in nursing education, while her professional work centres on transforming lived experience into leadership capacity, institutional change, and collective healing.
This philosophy is the foundation of The healing studio.
The programmes are designed for Global Majority professionals and ally leaders who are tired of performative inclusion and ready for real leadership development. It offers trauma-informed, decolonial, and evidence-based pathways that support participants to:
Name and navigate racialised power structures,
Rebuild confidence eroded by exclusion and imposter syndrome,
Lead authentically without abandoning their identities,
Translate lived experience into strategic, ethical leadership.
Beyond nursing, Victory is a published poet, autho, keynote speaker, and creative educator, using storytelling and critical autoethnography to challenge dominant narratives and centre marginalised voices.
She has developed inclusive curricula for secondary school students on race, identity, and belonging, because leadership consciousness must begin long before professional practice.
At its core, The Healing Studio is built on a simple truth:
Leadership is not about fitting into systems that were never designed for you, it is about reshaping them.
Victory leads not from theory alone, but from lived experience, research, and care. Her work ensures that Global Majority professionals no longer have to navigate leadership, harm, or healing alone and that ally leaders are equipped to support change ethically, intentionally, and sustainably.
OUR CORE VALUES
Sankofa – Honouring the past to guide the future
Ubuntu – I am because we are
Justice – Dismantling inequity systemically and interpersonally
Healing – Prioritising wholeness and restoration
Voice – Storytelling, self-definition, and visible leadership
Excellence – Rigour and truth rooted in lived experience
OUR VISION
To build a world where Global Majority professionals lead boldly, heal fully, and thrive in systems designed with equity, dignity, and justice at the core.
OUR MISSION
To empower individuals and organisations through decolonial coaching, cultural humility training, and anti-racist leadership development that centres lived experience, ancestral knowledge, and collective healing.
My work in nursing education and leadership has been recognised through multiple national and international awards and nominations, reflecting a sustained commitment to equity, inclusion, and transformative education.
In 2025, I received the Nursing Times Diversity and Inclusion Champion Award, a landmark recognition of my leadership in advancing inclusive nursing education. I was also shortlisted for contribution to inclusivity in education by CAHN, affirming the reach and impact of my work across the sector.
Over the years, I have received numerous Nursing Times nominations, alongside international recognition from the Global Diversity Initiative, including honours for inclusive leadership and a keynote contribution recognised for its global impact.
In recognition of my broader contribution to education, I was recently honoured on the King’s Honours List, following nomination by the Department of Health, for significant and outstanding service to education.
WANT TO WORK TOGETHER?
Let’s rise together.