Anisa Sanusi
Limit Break
Anisa Sanusi is the Founder of Limit Break, the largest mentorship program for marginalised talent in the UK games industry. Since establishing Limit Break in 2019, Anisa has helped connect thousands of mentors and mentees, she previously served on the BAFTA Games Committee, and earned recognition in the Forbes 30 Under 30 and GamesIndustry.biz’s Top 100 Influential Women in Games. With a professional background as a UI/UX Designer and Product Manager at studios like Roll7, Frontier, Hutch, and Netspeak Games, Anisa combines her years of games industry experience with a passion for diversity and inclusion.
Anisa Sanusi is speaking at the following session/s
Breaking Limits: How Mentorship Builds Better Studios
Since its inception in 2019, Limit Break has grown from a small cohort of 100 participants to a massive network of over 1,600 mentors and mentees. But how does a volunteer-run non-profit achieve this scale, and more importantly, why should game studios care?
In this session, Limit Break Founder Anisa Sanusi shares the origin story of the UK’s largest mentorship program for maginalised talent. She will reveal how a grassroots initiative evolved into a pillar of the industry, supporting thousands of careers from entry-level students to seasoned veterans.
Attendees will discover how supporting mentorship programs improves staff retention, levels up their skills, and fosters a healthier, more diverse studio culture. Anisa will also offer practical advice on running a successful non-profit. Whether you want to start your own employee resource group, launch a charity initiative, or simply become a better mentor, this talk will give you the tips you need for managing volunteers, organising community events on little or no budget, and that success often means embracing the chaos, ditching perfectionism, and just doing whatever it takes to get the job done.
Session Takeaway
- The Benefits of Mentorship: Understand the business benefits of mentorship, including higher staff retention, increased skill development, and improved team morale.
- Building a Community: Practical steps on how to set up and manage your own non-profit, charity, or internal employee resource group using a volunteer model.
- Better Mentoring and Leadership Skills: Learn how mentoring can help you to become a more effective leader in your own studio.
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