People · Podcast guest
Katya Veleva
Director · Blushcloud
Founder of Blushcloud. Diversity and inclusion consultant and coach, with a background in architecture and BIM.
- Current role
- Director
- Practice
- Blushcloud
- Location
- United Kingdom
- On the podcast
- 1 episode · 2021
The story so far
The path behind Katya's work.
Katya Veleva is the founder of Blushcloud, a diversity and inclusion consultancy that also provides leadership and career coaching. She began her career in architecture and moved into BIM and digital construction, before focusing on inclusion, equity and diversity work.
Katya works across learning and development, inclusive leadership, change management and employee resource groups, and she is a qualified coach and mentor. She has mentored since 2009, created the Women in BIM mentoring scheme, and mentored through the Stephen Lawrence Trust, now Blueprint for All. She brings the lived experience of being a queer immigrant woman in construction to her work on workplace culture and belonging.
Episode 0095 · Architecture Social · 80:18
Katya Veleva - Inclusion, Equity & Diversity within Construction
Inclusion, equity and diversity in construction only matter if they change how people experience work.
Inside the conversation
6 moments to start with- 01
00:00 · Introduction to inclusion, equity and diversity
- 02
05:00 · Katya Veleva's route from architecture and BIM
- 03
12:00 · Coaching, mentoring and workplace language
- 04
20:00 · Being gay in the architecture industry
- 05
30:00 · What true inclusion means in practice
- 06
40:00 · Organisational culture, recruitment and retention
Profile in brief
The work and context behind Katya's conversation.
- Current role
- Director
- Practice
- Blushcloud
- Location
- United Kingdom
Continue exploring
Meet the practice behind the work.
Blushcloud is a diversity and inclusion consultancy and leadership coaching practice founded by Katya Veleva, working across the built environment.
- United Kingdom
Podcast · moments that play
Start where the idea starts.
- 05:00Katya Veleva · Audio onlyListen from 05:00 in the full episode.
Katya Veleva's route from architecture and BIM
- 12:00Katya Veleva · Audio onlyListen from 12:00 in the full episode.
Coaching, mentoring and workplace language
- 20:00Katya Veleva · Audio onlyListen from 20:00 in the full episode.
Being gay in the architecture industry
- 30:00Katya Veleva · Audio onlyListen from 30:00 in the full episode.
What true inclusion means in practice
- 40:00Katya Veleva · Audio onlyListen from 40:00 in the full episode.
Organisational culture, recruitment and retention
- 50:00Katya Veleva · Audio onlyListen from 50:00 in the full episode.
Personal and professional journeys