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What We Do
We deliver training and consultancy to organisations creating safe, respectful and inclusive environments free from gender-based misconduct.
Our workplace and professional development training empowers organisations to create safe, respectful, and inclusive working environments.
What does our work look like in practice?
Anything from:
- Working with individuals and teams following reports of or to raise awareness of and prevent workplace sexual misconduct
- Designing a course to train public-facing staff on the role of the active bystander
- Training frontline professionals in how to deliver trauma-informed care
- Creating professional development training for people working with survivors of domestic and sexual violence
- Guiding a school EDI team to develop student-led safeguarding policies
Who We Are
ICENA has existed since 2019 to help organisations create safe and inclusive cultures to end gender-based misconduct.
We’re a team of women with backgrounds in frontline survivor support services delivering training and consultancy on sexual harassment, misconduct and inclusion in the workplace. By sharing our knowledge, practical tools, and lived experience, we address inequalities in the workplace, support organisations working with domestic and sexual abuse survivors, and promote healthy relationships, survivor support and the importance of being an active bystander.
Every training programme we create or consultancy project we deliver is guided by the voices of survivors. We contract and compensate survivors who share their experiences with us to make our training as trauma-informed and rooted in lived experience as possible.
Trusted And Recnognised
We work with leaders, HR departments and EDI teams. Our clients include the NHS, the Ministry of Justice, the Probation Service, London School of Economics and Anglia Ruskin University amongst many more.
We’ve been listed on NatWest’s Social Business Awards SE100, the Small Business Saturday #SmallBiz100 and been nominated for a National StartUp Award. Our CEO Naomi was also listed in the Euclid Network’s Top 100 Trailblazing Leaders in Social Enterprise.
Social Impact
The fees for our services create a sustainable source of funding for survivor services in the East of England. When you work with us, you help ensure that people affected by gender-based violence continue to have free access to these essential resources.
How It Works
We deliver
We deliver a service packed with practical knowledge, lived experience and survivor testimony. We audit your current policies and tailor content to your sector, situation and local area.
You get results
You achieve your organisation’s goals of becoming safer, more inclusive, free from sexual harassment, misconduct and violence and better equipped to support survivors.
Charitable profit sharing
Profits from the services you commissioned fund survivor support in the UK including:
Housing and economic support for women escaping gender-based violence or domestic abuse
Free-to-access specialised help and care for survivors
Meet The Team
Naomi Butters
CEO and co-founder
As co-founder and CEO of ICENA, Naomi is a passionate advocate for gender equality and a leader in addressing sexual harassment and violence against women and girls. She has dedicated her career to empowering women, supporting survivors of sexual violence and creating safe, equitable workplaces. With an MSc in Voluntary Sector Management from Bayes Business School, she combines strategic expertise with a skill for developing impactful partnerships with key stakeholders.
Naomi’s leadership has been recognised in Euclid Network’s Top 100 Trailblazing Leaders in Social Enterprise and NatWest’s Social Business Awards SE100.
Kat Hymas
Head of Training & Consultancy
Kat brings over a decade of experience in the gender-based violence sector and leads ICENA’s training and consultancy work with a clear vision: creating survivor-centred, equitable, and trauma-informed systems. She oversees the design and delivery of ICENA’s programmes, partnering with organisations across corporate, public, higher education, and charity sectors to embed sustainable cultural change.
Her career has spanned frontline services having worked as an IDVA and ISVA, leading prevention and education programmes, and influencing policy change at local and national levels. Kat has also worked extensively in higher education and workplace contexts, developing survivor-informed training and consultancy that reshapes organisational culture and strengthens safeguarding practice.
A dedicated feminist, Kat takes an intersectional and trauma-informed approach to sexual harassment, misconduct and violence. She has championed the centrality of survivors’ voices in policy and practice, co-producing training and consultancy with survivors to ensure lived experience drives meaningful change.
Kat’s leadership combines strategic insight with a commitment to equity and inclusion. She has influenced national conversations on sexual violence and workplace harassment, reshaped organisational responses, and supported institutions to embed survivor-informed approaches at scale. Her vision and expertise make her a trusted leader, dedicated to building cultures of safety, respect, and justice.
Claire Workman
Training and Consultancy Manager
Claire brings over a decade of experience in designing and delivering transformative, trauma-informed training. At ICENA, she leads consultancy and training on preventing sexual harassment, working with senior leaders and staff teams to embed cultural change and create safe, equitable workplaces.
She holds a First-Class Honours degree in Youth and Community Work and has undertaken extensive CPD training, including anti-oppressive facilitation, facilitation for transformation, and deep democracy. Her practice is rooted in equity, inclusion and cultural change, and she is committed to creating environments where everyone can thrive.
Claire’s career has spanned leading national programmes, supporting survivors of sexual violence, and embedding anti-racist practice. She has also worked extensively in young people’s mental health, campaigning for and supporting systemic change to ensure survivors can access the vital services they need.
Her collaborative style and strategic insight make her a trusted trainer and consultant, empowering organisations to challenge inequalities and build cultures of safety and respect.
Our consultants
ICENA’s training consultants come from diverse backgrounds and have extensive experience in the criminal justice system, sexual harassment, sexual violence, conflict management, professional boundaries, the education sector and the emergency services.
They have delivered training and consultancy for organisations including NHS England, the University of Essex, the London School of Economics, the Ministry of Justice and the Probation Service.
Our directors
Our board of directors is a diverse group of women with decades in the survivor support sector who are dedicated to making the world a more equitable place. Their experience spans running, directing and fundraising for sexual violence services as well as providing frontline support themselves. Many have been awarded OBEs and MBEs in recognition of their contributions both to their sector and to societal change.
Our values
Empowerment
We believe in the right of every person to feel safe, respected and empowered in their life and work.
Collaboration
Collaboration and shared knowledge are the key to real societal change.
Respect
Everyone deserves respect. We create safe and non-judgemental spaces and show you how to do the same.
Innovation
We can’t expect change if our actions stay the same. We’re always looking for new ways to improve our services and push the conversation forward.
Courage
We talk about difficult topics and tell challenging stories because it’s the courageous thing to do.
