Press Release: Educator and principal Anita Stewart represents Grid Society at WELN: UAE Educational Leadership Summit 2025 with a focus on internal voice

Team Gridmoves
Sep 26
3 min read

Updated: Nov 21

Visibility, Voice, Value: Women making an impact in leadership

The Women in Educational Leadership Network (WELN UAE) Leadership Summit 2025 is anchored in a clear and compelling theme: Visibility, Voice, Value: Making an Impact. This annual gathering brings together women across the UAE’s education sector to explore how they lead, how they are seen, and how they are heard. We are honoured that our UAE Ambassador, Anita Stewart, a respected principal based in Dubai, has chosen to spotlight her work with GRID Society as part of this powerful summit. She brings a deeply reflective and practical lens to the topic of leadership and internal voice.

How the internal voice impacts leadership visibility

Anita Stewart’s session explores how the internal voice influences whether leaders rise or retreat. Using GRID Society’s structured framework, she offers a clear, powerful lens to help women identify the narratives they tell themselves, the doubts they allow to linger, and the habits that quietly sabotage their leadership.

Inner Work:

Naming the internal voice that holds leaders back

When leaders learn to name the voice that keeps them small, the one that delays their decisions, softens conviction, or silences truth, they begin to lead from a place of strength. They sharpen their presence. They speak without shrinking. They act without apology.

GRrid Society’s Mission:

Breaking grey cycles in leadership

This is why GRID Society exists.

We exist to break grey cycles. Cycles that propel them into fierce visibility, anchor them into an unapologetic voice, and help them deliver undeniable value. Cycles that propel them into fierce visibility, anchor them into an unapologetic voice, and help them deliver undenying value. Leaders who rise from the inside out do not simply create impact. They create impact that lasts, with passion, purpose, and power.

Photos from our previous workshops in Dubai

WELN UAE as a space for deeper leadership conversations

As this year’s summit continues to champion visibility, voice, and value in educational leadership, we are proud that Anita Stewart chose to share the Grid Society framework in this space. Her presence reinforces what we believe: that leadership impact begins within, and that the conversations shaping our future must start with the internal voice.

Educational Leadership Summit

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CONFRONT THE GREY VOICES

WORKSHOP

It’s time to take full control of your mind and silence the second-guessing once and for all.

🔥 For the moments when you are exhausted from beating yourself up

This workshop is for the days when you keep replaying conversations, questioning your decisions, criticising yourself for every mistake, and overthinking until you feel drained. It helps you understand why your mind keeps pushing you into the same negative loops - the doubt, the pressure, the fear of getting it wrong - and teaches you how to separate real thought from the voice that keeps attacking you. You will learn how to calm the mental noise, stop the self-blame, and think clearly again.

🔥 Practical tools to stop the cycle and take back control of your mind

You will learn simple, everyday strategies that help you notice when your mind is slipping into criticism, interrupt the pattern, and guide yourself back to balance. No theories. No overwhelm. Just practical tools you can use immediately when your thoughts start spiralling. In two and a half hours, you will learn how to quiet your mind, challenge the harsh inner commentary, and move through your day with more peace, confidence and control.