About the Founder

 Chidinma “Victory” Oforji (PhD candidate, MSc, FHEA, RN)

Founder | The Healing Studio (Ogwu) Consultancy & Leadership Development
Creator | The Healing Studio (Ọgwụ)

I began this journey as a migrant nurse from Nigeria, stepping into the UK healthcare system with passion, ambition, and the belief that nursing would offer fairness and equal opportunity. Instead, I quickly discovered what so many Black and Global Majority nurses experience every day, a system not designed for us to rise.

From being a confused and frustrated international student nurse, constantly questioning my place and value...

To fighting through racialised bullying, bias in placements, and the systemic barriers that silently police Black nurses’ progression...

To rising into leadership roles in clinical practice, academia, and EDI transformation, I have lived every layer of this reality.

I know what it is to feel:

unseen in a room full of people

under-promoted despite excellence

spoken over, underestimated, or othered

forced to work twice as hard for half the recognition

Yet I also know what it means to push through, reclaim power, and lead boldly from lived experience.

Today, as a:

Lecturer in Adult Nursing

PhD Researcher on racialised bullying in nursing education

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion champion

Global Majority Leadership developer

…I stand proudly at a new peak in my career, one I had to carve out for myself.

Now, I am committed to ensuring no one climbs alone.

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My Mission

To melt the snowy white peaks of healthcare and higher education, those exclusive spaces at the top where leadership has historically been white, limited, and closed off.

To equip Black and ethnically minoritised nurses, students, support workers and professionals with:
✔ confidence
✔ tools
✔ strategy
✔ advocacy
✔ leadership excellence

So we break systemic barriers, not ourselves.

Through this Consultancy, I work with organisations to shift culture, dismantle bias, and create structures where every black and brown professionals can rise and support individuals in their healing, empowerment, and career transformation because leadership begins with wellbeing and self-belief.

Awards & Recognition

Named Diversity & Inclusion Champion at the National Nursing Workforce Awards, in recognition of outstanding commitment to equity, inclusion and support for Global Majority nurses.

Additional professional honours for contributions to racial equity, leadership development and systemic change in nursing and higher education (details available on request).

 

Leadership from lived experience

I am here to ensure that Black success is no longer accidental,it is expected.
That diversity is no longer decorative, it is structural.
That every Global Majority healthcare professionals can say:

“I belong here. My expertise leads here.”

Because when we rise, the system shifts.

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