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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
Training and Development Manager
Kat is a dedicated feminist and uses her decade of experience in the gender-based violence sector to design and deliver transformative consultancy and training. She takes an intersectional approach to topics including sexual harassment and violence, domestic abuse, trauma-informed practice, consent and healthy relationships. Her expertise extends to working with young people, schools and universities.
Kat advocates for putting survivors’ lived experiences at the heart of policy, procedure and training. In doing so, she has strengthened survivor voices, reshaped responses to sexual violence and driven local and national policy change. She continues to co-produce all her training materials with survivors.
Kat’s innovative methods and engaging style make her a sought-after trainer and consultant. She empowers participants to become agents of systemic change by challenging entrenched inequalities and adopting survivor-centred, trauma-informed approaches. She remains committed to a world where every survivor’s voice contributes to shaping a more equitable future.
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.
