OUR PROGRAMME LEADS

I’ve worked in marketing and communications in large, complex organisations, managing culture change programmes, internal, external and stakeholder communications, audience engagement, customer research and brand management. I love working on complex projects, defining the scope, understanding the reach and delivering the details to achieve the bigger picture results. Along the way, I’ve worked with and developed high performing teams that have shaped organisational and sector thinking. I love working with people who are committed to making a difference, challenging existing practices, open to new ideas and passionate about achieving meaningful outcomes. It’s great to work with organisation that embraces an ‘all company’ approach, empowering individuals and teams to learn, engage, develop and celebrate success. I have always chosen to work with charities, and non-profit organisations in the fields of Education, Arts and Community Regeneration. I’m passionate about communication and engagement in all forms… whether it’s helping to improve satisfaction, reinforcing brand values through internal communication, or enhancing service delivery and the customer experience. I’d love to continue working with people and organisations on projects that make a real difference. People I’ve worked with have called me passionate, positive, emotionally intelligent, supportive, with an ability to focus on the detail and the bigger picture to deliver results on time. Communication strategy, employee engagement, customer experience, brand management.

Zara has spent the last 11 years producing a wide variety of UK based cultural projects. She started out at Sadler’s Wells working in the community and engagement team connecting local and national communities with the theatres exceptional artists and resources and project managing large scale community productions and festivals. She went on to work with Corali, a learning disabled dance company, to develop new performance work and secure a national tour. Simultaneously Zara was creative producer for MOVE IT 2018, Europe's largest dance expo at Excel Centre, overseeing the creative programme and infrastructure for the event which saw 30,000 people enjoy the show. Recently her work has seen a shift into the wider cultural sector working across museums, heritage, libraries, performing and visual arts. In 2019 she produced a series of conferences for Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation on the Civic Role of Arts Organisations which developed an in-depth enquiry into what cultural spaces represent for communities. Most recently she is working for people make it work producing leadership and change programmes. During summer 2020 she produced CULTURE RESET a rapid response programme for 192 producers in the UK to reimagine the future of arts and culture and address the topic of relevance in their work and organisations. Zara is also a yoga coach and approaches all her work with a deeply invested interest in what it is to be human and to lead with compassion and equanimity.

Hello there, I am passionate about equality, inclusion and representation, I love collaborating with people and organisations and helping them to answer profound questions about future vision, values and strategy which is ambitious, inspiring and optimistic, but which looks unflinchingly at the challenges and vulnerabilities in our cultural sector and our society. I’m currently supporting and enabling Boards and Directors with transitions to new leadership and inclusive cultures through my work as a coach, facilitator, mentor and consultant. I am interested in collaborating with people and organisations that are committed to building a better world and creating positive change, who want to become an effectively anti-racist and anti-discriminatory, relevant and inclusive organization and are ready to champion new voices, embrace risk and new ways of working. Some of the organisations I have worked with are Coventry City of Culture, East Street Arts, Museum of London, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, Nottingham City Libraries, Royal Shakespeare Company, UNESCO Creative Cities, UNESCO, National Commission for the UK  and Women’s Prize Trust. In the future I would love to be an honest and challenging thinking partner and facilitator, working with more leaders from small and large organisations across the UK and internationally, and help them shape future narratives and actions that make the biggest positive impact. "Sandeep is a much-respected and influential leader with a remarkable ability to build successful partnerships in a way that combines grace with acuity.” Ruth Mackenzie CBE