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Biographies for organisers.
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Gamal Turawa is a speaker, facilitator, consultant and creator of G’Ology and The Five Bs of Human Connection. His work explores what helps people feel seen, heard, valued and able to connect across difference.
Drawing on a life shaped by movement between cultures, identities and environments, Gamal brings lived experience, humour and reflection into conversations about belonging, dignity, trust and human connection.
His approach is practical, curious and deeply human, helping leaders, teams and organisations become more conscious of how they affect one another.
Gamal is also the subject of the BAFTA-winning short film The Black Cop.
Gamal Turawa is a speaker, facilitator, consultant and creator of G’Ology and The Five Bs of Human Connection — a practical framework for understanding how dignity, voice, trust and belonging are created, protected or eroded in everyday human interaction.
His work is rooted in a life shaped by movement between very different worlds. Gamal spent part of his childhood fostered in rural Kent before later moving to inner-city London. His childhood also included experiences of physical abuse. Later, his journey took him to Nigeria, where he encountered a very different cultural environment and, for a period, experienced homelessness.
His working life has been equally varied, including roles as a welder, chicken farmer, magician’s personal assistant and bodyguard. He later served for 26 years as a police officer with London’s Metropolitan Police Service.
In 2004, Gamal came out as gay and, in doing so, became the first openly gay Black police officer in the Metropolitan Police Service. Some of those experiences later informed The Black Cop, which won the BAFTA for Best British Short Film in 2022.
The deeper thread through Gamal’s life is human connection: how people adapt, how belonging is experienced, and what happens when intention and impact do not match.
Through keynotes, masterclasses, workshops, consulting, coaching and mentoring, he helps people become more conscious of how they meet one another.
At the heart of his work is a simple proposition:
We do not have to think the same to meet one another better.
Gamal Turawa is a speaker, facilitator, consultant and creator of G’Ology and The Five Bs of Human Connection — a practical framework for understanding how dignity, voice, trust and belonging are created, protected or eroded in everyday human interaction.
His work is rooted in a lifelong exploration of identity, belonging and what it means to move between different worlds. Growing up across different cultural environments, expectations and experiences taught Gamal to observe closely, adapt quickly and question what it really means to fit in. Over time, those experiences shaped a deep interest in how people relate to one another, how environments influence behaviour, and how easily good intentions can produce very different impacts.
Gamal’s professional journey has taken him through a wide range of roles and settings. He served for 26 years in policing and became the first openly gay Black police officer in the Metropolitan Police. His experiences during that period later formed part of the BAFTA-winning short film The Black Cop, which has been used internationally to stimulate conversations around identity, belonging, race, sexuality and the personal cost of hiding parts of oneself in order to survive or fit in.
But Gamal’s work today is much broader than policing.
At the centre of his work is a simple but powerful question: How do we meet one another, especially when we do not think, feel or experience the world in the same way?
That question sits behind G’Ology and the Five Bs:
Belonging — helping people feel that they genuinely matter.
Before — creating the conditions in which honesty is possible.
Beside — supporting others without taking over their voice.
Behind — protecting dignity when someone is not present.
Never Belittle — challenging without diminishing the human being.
Through keynotes, masterclasses, workshops, consulting, coaching and mentoring, Gamal helps leaders, teams and organisations explore the quality of their everyday interactions. His approach is conversational, experiential and reflective, using storytelling, humour, curiosity and practical frameworks to help people recognise the gap between intention and impact.
He does not set out to tell people what to think. Instead, he creates space for people to examine their own assumptions, behaviours and experiences, and to become more conscious of how they contribute to the culture around them.
Gamal’s work has been delivered across public, private and community settings in the UK and internationally. Whether working with a leadership team, a room of delegates or an individual, his focus remains the same: helping people understand themselves more deeply so they can connect with others more consciously.
At a time when division, pressure and misunderstanding increasingly shape the way people interact, Gamal’s work offers a human response — one grounded in dignity, curiosity, awareness and the belief that better cultures are created not by getting everyone to think the same, but by learning how to meet one another better when we do not.
