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Lee Lawrence
Build inclusive, resilient organisations with Lee Lawrence, speaker, restorative justice and conflict resolution expert. Lee works with institutions to foster dialogue, address systemic challenges, and promote accountability, delivering Costa Award-winning insights.
Lee Lawrence is an award-winning author, mediator and advocate for restorative justice. His work focuses on creating inclusive communities, supporting social change and promoting alternative approaches to conflict resolution. Through his lived experience and professional practice, he provides a perspective on resilience, accountability and the power of dialogue to transform institutions and relationships. At the age of eleven, Lee witnessed the shooting of his mother, Dorothy “Cherry” Groce, during a police raid, an event that became a pivotal moment in British history. Her experience left her with lifelong injuries and ultimately contributed to her death in 2011. Lee’s journey in the years that followed was shaped by a determination to seek justice, culminating in a full public apology and accountability from the Metropolitan Police. Lee went on to found the Cherry Groce Foundation, established to support individuals and families facing extraordinary challenges such as disability and mobility issues. Alongside his charity work, he has trained as a mediator and now works with organisations, institutions and communities to foster constructive dialogue and to address systemic challenges. His approach is rooted in restorative practices that emphasise healing, fairness and lasting change. Lee reflects on these experiences in his 2020 memoir, The Louder I Will Sing, which won the Costa Biography Award. The book has since been introduced into schools, ensuring that the lessons of his family’s story continue to inform younger generations. Lee combines his personal story with professional expertise to inspire new ways of thinking about justice, inclusion and leadership. He continues to play a central role in shaping conversations around resilience, social equity and the pursuit of meaningful change.
Book Lee Lawrence to inspire your team with powerful lessons on resilience, inclusion and transformative leadership, drawn from his lived experience and award-winning work in restorative justice. Bring Lee in to spark meaningful dialogue and equip your organization with practical tools for positive change.
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Lee Lawrence structures his sessions around his memoir, The Louder I Will Sing, drawing on the documented events of his mother Dorothy “Cherry” Groce's shooting by police in 1985 and his subsequent decades-long pursuit of accountability from the Metropolitan Police. He connects this personal narrative to his professional practice as a trained mediator, using restorative justice frameworks to translate lived experience into applicable models for institutions and communities.
Lee Lawrence speaks on restorative justice, conflict resolution, inclusive communities, accountability, and resilience rooted in lived experience of systemic injustice. His memoir, The Louder I Will Sing, won the Costa Biography Award in 2020.
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