Digital Self-Care for Leaders Navigating Visibility, Power, and Wellbeing Online
Safety is not retreat: it’s strategy for leadership in public life. This focused offering supports movement leaders to create and put that strategy into practice through a 3-day workshop, a 3-month programme, or an immersive retreat. Led by Seyi Akiwowo.
Who is Seyi Akiwowo?
Seyi Akiwowo is an internationally experienced facilitator and senior advisor on digital safety, power, and leadership in public life. She is the founder and former CEO of Glitch, a former elected politician, and the author of How To Stay Safe Online.
Her work sits at the intersection of feminist analysis, public health, and governance, combining lived experience of online harm with systems-level safety design. In this programme, she works directly with movement leaders and people in public life, including politicians, activists, and journalists, to support them in building an online presence without burning out or putting themselves or their organisations at unnecessary risk.
A Proactive Model of Digital Self Care
The goal is not less visibility. The goal is visibility with agency.
Movement leaders are not targeted because they do something wrong online, but because visibility brings power, and power attracts scrutiny. Campaigns, moments of traction, and controversy amplify that exposure. Digital self-care is about recognising this reality early and designing your digital ecosystem so it supports your leadership, rather than quietly undermining it.
This model treats digital presence as part of leadership infrastructure: examining where you are visible, what that visibility is for, what it gives you, and what it costs you. From there, it focuses on reducing unnecessary exposure, strengthening safety practices, and setting clear principles for how and when you engage, prioritising sustainability over constant presence. The aim is to protect capacity, credibility, and personal life, while remaining effective and visible on your own terms.
About the 3-Day Workshop
An intensive, facilitated space to step back from day-to-day pressure and examine your digital presence with clarity. Over three days, participants map their digital ecosystem, identify moments of risk, and develop practical principles and pre-emptive safety practices they can apply immediately. Designed to support leaders who need focus, structure, and usable tools in a short timeframe.
About the 3-Month Programme
A deeper, paced engagement for leaders navigating sustained visibility or ongoing public scrutiny. The programme unfolds over time, allowing insight, practice, and reflection to build and integrate into daily leadership. It combines group sessions with reflection and practical application, allowing participants to test boundaries, refine their digital practices, and strengthen safety over time. This format supports lasting change, accountability, and leadership that can adapt as risks evolve.
About the Retreat
A slower, immersive setting for leaders who need distance from noise to think strategically about visibility, boundaries, and sustainability. The retreat creates space for reflection, peer learning, and restoration, combining practical digital self-care with guided movement and reflective practices that support both body and mind. Designed for those at inflection points who want to reset how they show up online.
What You Get
In the 3-day workshop, you gain focused time to map your digital presence, identify moments of risk, and develop practical principles and pre-emptive safety practices you can apply immediately.
In the 3-month programme, this work is deepened over time, allowing participants to test boundaries in real-world conditions, refine their practices, and build confidence through sustained support and peer learning.
In the retreat, participants step back from day-to-day demands to reflect more strategically on visibility, capacity, and sustainability, combining practical digital self-care with space for restoration and long-term thinking.
For organisations, this work supports duty of care, leadership sustainability, and safer engagement in public-facing roles. Organisations and institutions are encouraged to enrol female leaders in this programme. We also offer an organisation specific programme.
“The online safety was delivered really well and the resources shared I've gone on to use and share with my team, super insightful session.”
“I found the reflective elements across the sessions and the movement-based work very valuable.”
Who It’s For
This work is designed for senior movement leaders whose roles involve visibility, influence, or public scrutiny, including those in politics, media, civil society, technology, and advocacy and the organisations that support them.
It is suitable for:
Movement leaders and people in public life managing heightened visibility or reputational risk
Leaders whose work attracts harassment, misinformation, or identity-based attacks, particularly those who are racialised or otherwise marginalised
Organisations and institutions seeking to better support staff in public-facing or high-risk roles
Teams looking to embed proactive digital safety and sustainability into leadership practice
Employers seeking more sustainable approaches to visibility, safety, and duty of care
Want to get in touch about something else?
For all paid speaking engagement enquiries, press, media and consultancy enquiries please email Seyi’s team.
For all literary enquiries please email Seyi’s literary agent Jane at Graham Maw Christie.
You can also get insights from Seyi by following her on Substack.
