Usha Kong is a multi-award-winning social mobility leader and inclusion changemaker who has spent nearly four decades turning lived experience of inequality and exclusion into action. Her leadership is informed by lifelong health challenges and chronic pain, alongside cultural pressure, early marriage, bereavement and single parenthood, shaping a career dedicated to widening opportunity. As Co-Founder and CEO of novi FUTURES, she engaged over 800 young people and mobilised nearly 500 volunteers in its first year, connecting those often excluded with employers, universities and networks. At Tower Hamlets Council, she led programmes reaching over 9,500 young people annually. Today, alongside novi FUTURES, Usha brings her expertise to Skanska on the Lower Thames Crossing, developing and delivering skills, employment and education initiatives connecting underrepresented communities with careers and opportunities, while championing disability inclusion and ensuring background, circumstance or disability does not limit access.