Carol Ann Whitehead FRSA CMgr CCMI
banner
zebracaz.bsky.social
Carol Ann Whitehead FRSA CMgr CCMI
@zebracaz.bsky.social
Heritage Operations, Chief of Staff & Committee Chair 🏛️The Portico 📚 ~ Co-Founder The Zebra 🦓 Partnership Award Winning Mentor, Publisher & Events ~ Chartered Management Institute Chair WMNW Board, Deputy Chair, CMI Women ~ 50:50 Parliament Trustee
Happy Birthday to @porticolibrary.bsky.social
Michelle L Hill our Membership, Finance and Admin Administrator but most of all our #MotherOfWeddings
November 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I love with these stunning photos taken during Bimbo Ponmile's book launch for #WorldMentalHealthDay & #BlackHistoryMonth at @porticolibrary.bsky.social for #PorticoUbuntu - #QueensInPrint

📸 Photos by the fantastic Gideon Okorie #Nigeria 🇳🇬
October 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Ubuntu: Black Creatives with Kevin Dalton Johnson - part one
Under @porticolibrary.bsky.social
Dome this inspiring masterclass and interview with international artist Kevin hosted by yours truly, Portico Public Programme Committee Chair, Carol Ann Whitehead CMgr CCMI - UK Black History Month 2025
October 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
#Portico #Ubuntu Local History, Global Impact exhibition launch.
Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the 5th #PanAfricanCongress in #Manchester - A chance to engage with history, learn, contribute to the ongoing conversation & honor the legacy of those who came before us
@porticolibrary.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
#PorticoReunited
This once-in-a-lifetime project will reunite all 3 floors of the Portico for the first time in over a century via a lift, creating the UK’s most sustainable historic library – a place for heritage, literature, creativity & community.
www.theportico.org.uk/reuniting-po...
September 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
#FridayFeeling
Congratulations to @porticolibrary.bsky.social
Apapat Jai-in Glynn 🌟 on being shortlisted for Heritage Volunteer Group (HVG) Volunteer Leader of The Year 2025. Here she supporting the #PorticoKitchen at the lunch for The University of Manchester students visit with an welcome talk ✨
September 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Women Leading in Business – September 2025 🌟
@alliancembs.bsky.social
We had the honour of listening to Professor Dawn Edge, Professor of Mental Health & Inclusivity at #TheUniversityofManchester and the institution’s first Black woman professor.
September 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Images at the @porticolibrary.bsky.social by
#GideonOkorie
Creative Story Teller Through Photography
Through the torrential rain Gideon Okorie brought the #Lagos sunshine via not just his smile but his ideas & vision supporting yours truly creating #Ubuntu Events for #BlackHistoryMonth 2025
September 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Regional Boards dinner:-
Fantastic to see some of my #CMI West Midlands & North West board members and the board members from across CMI South West CMI North East, Yorkshire & Humberside CMI West Midlands & North West CMI Scotland CMI London and CMI South East @cmi-managers.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
#SixDegreesOfSeperation
On this day 2018 I was featured in the story where awesome #writer & #actor @mindykaling.bsky.social recreates
#Beyonces @voguemagazine.bsky.social cover then inspires #women to do the same - yours truly gets featured 😲
Didn’t get a gift 🎁 or anything.
Still waiting Mindy ✨💐
August 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
#KeepCalmAndCarryOn
Epic challenges this week with a soupçon of fabulousness.
Thanks Lee @maleallyship.bsky.social
The Zebra kettle is on and brewing ideas 💡#TheZebraPartnership #KnowledgeSharing #Publishing #Events #Campaigns
August 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
#ReadingIsSexy
So true! 😂
Nuff Said
August 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This was fun! @porticolibrary.bsky.social book launch.
Floating poet, Jo Bell – who is a boat dweller, archaeologist and award winning author, the first ever Canal Laureate, a & former director of the with #ThePoetrySociety - joined us at the Portico for the Manchester launch of her memoir, #Boater
August 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
On this day in 2023 there was a buzz with a bit of seasoning at #OldTrafford stadium & it was nothing to do with football ⚽️
I was asked to be one of the line up of hosts for the #BOBExpo (#BlackOwnedBusiness) - I was flying out to Belfast with #dzywhitehead to film in a few days 🌟
July 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
#England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 winning on penalties!
#WEURO2025final #LikeALioness
💪🏿⚽️💪🏽⚽️💪🏼⚽️
At 19 she’s a #Trailblazer 💥
Just look at #MichelleAgyemang getting celebrated like that and thinking of all of the young #women & #children watching who look like her 🌟❤️🌟
#DareToDream
#SportForAll 👏🏿👏🏽👏🏻 #Lioness
July 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Milo loves the weekend
“Quality time with the Hoomans”
#ShihTzu #Royalty #DogsOfBlueSky
July 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
What did you do on #NelsonMandelaDay?
I joined the speaker & podcast line up with some awesome Queens 👑here in the U.K. & overseas. #GREATERMANCHESTER #BLACKTECHEXPO - The Power of Expression
Thank you to #MichaelEkpechue of Adanian Labs for curating a space.
July 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
As #WeAreTheCity Judge I’m in #London as speaker at the awards. Representing Chartered Management Institute @cmi-managers.bsky.social as Dep Chair #CMIWomen & Chair CMI #WestMidlands & #NorthWest board. 🌟Congratulations #RisingStars100 winners 🌟
July 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Flying the flag for @cmi-managers.bsky.social

“Watching the embodiment of change and disruptor that is Carol Ann shake the room at the Women in Leadership conference hosted by Institute of Government & Public Policy.
Talking about the elephant in the room. Women supporting women more.”
#Made4Tech
July 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM