Engage your teams in a multimedia, facilitator-led conversation on Zoom, supported with interactive moderated conversations in breakout rooms (hosted by our team of Pod Coaches).
A 90 or 180-minute facilitated session using Virginia Hall’s story of overcoming gender and disability prejudice to explore grit, resilience and reframing obstacles with your team.
Diversity and inclusion training works best when it’s grounded in a real story, not a slogan. So we start with Virginia Hall: a disabled secret agent determined to play her part in the fight against the Nazis and help the Allies win World War II.
Virginia faced constant rejection because of her gender and her disability. But instead of accepting a “dead-end life,” she took a chance, and became the Limping Lady of Lyon, the Second World War’s most feared spy.
Virginia Hall made the most of her second chance. She pulled off gutsy, cinematic feats throughout her wartime career. And yet, despite everything she achieved, she is still not widely remembered as a hero of World War II.
Step into the life of a spy who became the most decorated female civilian of the Second World War. This case study explores how Virginia Hall embraced, endured and conquered obstacles and rejection, because she harnessed the power of perception, action and grit to fulfil her destiny, despite prejudice.
Her story also gives us a new way of thinking about failure and struggle. It helps teams lift the mask on their own blind spots, so they can have the courageous conversations that build real equality and inclusion.
She entered the war with almost no training, no way to contact London, and no support system. There was no rescue option if things went wrong. She could have failed at any moment. But she stayed determined, resourceful and immensely resilient.
Most diversity and inclusion training stays theoretical. This one doesn’t, because Virginia Hall’s story forces a direct question: what do we actually do when the odds, and the people around us, are stacked against us?
Teams who go through this session don’t just discuss inclusion in the abstract. They confront their own bias-based decisions, and they practise reframing the obstacles in front of them right now. That’s what makes the lessons stick.
She bravely entered the war, volunteering to serve in the British intelligence services, with very little training, and no way to contact London. No support system, and no rescue option. She could have failed at any time. But she was determined and resourceful and immensely resilient.
Engage your teams in a multimedia, facilitator-led conversation on Zoom, supported with interactive moderated conversations in breakout rooms (hosted by our team of Pod Coaches).
This case study is available in a 90-minute or 180-minute online (Zoom) format.
“You were made for greatness,” said Virginia Hall’s father as she struggled to find her way.
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