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The courage to keep becoming.

Dr Lola Dare is a physician and public health leader. Based in the UK, working internationally and facing Africa, she has built institutions, advised boards and led change in health, governance and development. BoldSpaces is her independent practice and intellectual space: a place for reflection, speaking, learning and counsel.

BoldSpaces: experience that serves.

Her career shows where she has worked. What matters more is what it taught, whom it can serve and what it makes possible now. Dr Dare brings together thoughtful reflections, independent professional dialogue, and the stories that are echoed behind her contribution.

Read The Journey

Three ways into BoldSpaces

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Reflection and direction for emerging leaders

Reflections on purpose, resilience and the decisions that shape a working life. Read at your own pace.

Read MyBoldSpace
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Experienced perspective for leaders

The experience and decisions that shaped Dr Dare’s approach to leadership and service.

Read The Journey
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Strategic insight for organisations

Counsel, governance dialogue, speaking or a scoped engagement, when a question needs an independent view.

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Experience is most valuable when it strengthens others.

Across medicine, public health, governance and institutional life, Dr Dare’s perspective has developed through people, decisions and shared purpose. The Journey tells how; Footprints considers what those contributions continue to make possible.

  1. Decades of professional experience

    A physician and public health leader who has built institutions, advised boards and led change across health, governance and development — at national and global levels.

  2. A clear, current offer

    Speaking, counsel, learning and advisory — her experience, applied to your decision.

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MyBoldSpace

A place to think. A space to become.

Reflections on purpose, leadership, faith and the commitments that come with experience.

Reflections by Dr Lola Dare

FROM THE READING ROOM / REFLECTIONS AT 65
“Age has not closed the door to becoming. It has given becoming new meaning.”

On age, purpose and new beginnings.

Source

Dr Lola Dare · Reflections at 65 (2026)

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THE REFLECTION ROOM
The reading room

A reading room for reflections that deserve time and thought.

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What she holds to

  • Power serves people

    Her standing exists to build strength in others.

  • Credit where it belongs

    She names the people who carried the vision.

  • Àjọjẹ

    An achievement matters by what it changed for someone else.

  • Quiet, steady strength

    Strength is often quiet. It shows up as persistence rather than noise.

  • Honest hope

    The hard part is named; what can’t be promised isn’t.

A record worth examining

Photographs and publications put the conversations, communities and institutions in context. They are a starting point, not a substitute for documented evidence.

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Speaking
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Workshop
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Community

A few clear records are stronger than many with gaps.

Where would you like to begin?

Choose what matters to you today.

  • Her journeyThe story, formation and path behind the work
    The Journey
  • Professional contributionsKey work, public record and lasting contributions
    Footprints
  • Personal reflectionsWriting on purpose, faith, growth and becoming
    MyBoldSpace
  • Speaking engagementsInvitations for talks, conversations and public dialogue
    Explore Speaking
  • AdvisoryStrategic thought, counsel and professional dialogue
    Explore Advisory

Advisory

What Advisory offers

Some decisions need more than another ready-made answer. An engagement is shaped by the question and its context: counsel, facilitated dialogue or speaking.

  • Executive insight

    A trusted perspective for leaders navigating change and their next chapter.

  • Strategic advice

    Clear thinking for decisions that affect people, purpose and institutions.

  • Speaking and dialogue

    Thoughtful contributions for leadership rooms, public conversations and learning.

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The Spaces We Build Become the Futures We Shape.

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