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Daisy Hale

Dais Hale is an award winning independent producer and creative director of The Hale: a London-based arts producing company specialising in experimental, socially engaged work that is not restricted by form. The Hale produces and develops artists who have been traditionally ostracised from mainstream spaces with a focus on Queer, Trans, Global Majority & Learning Disabled & Neurodivergent identities. Daisy regularly facilitates workshops on producing, as well as leadership & inclusion for organisations. They are an access consultant and disability equality trainer for arts organisations, and a trustee of Artsadmin and Clore Leadership.

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Dan Simmons

Dan is a professionally trained coach with over 1,500 hours of coaching across sectors and countries. He empowers leaders to have more impact and be more fulfilled by:

  • working smarter not harder,
  • deepening their emotional intelligence,
  • forging stronger connections with themselves and the people around them.

His approach incorporates a blend of coaching, neuro-linguistic programming, positive psychology, storytelling, mindfulness and embodiment. 

He tends to work best with people who share at least some of his values of Learning and growth, Creativity, Connection, Making a difference and Fun.

Previously, Dan worked in learning and development within the UK’s creative industries’, partnering with industry leaders, government, higher education and the training sector to commission over £10 million per year of skills development for the film, TV, animation, games and visual effects industries in the UK, with a particular focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Alongside this Dan is (slowly) writing a novel and poetry.  He’s based in London, England.

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Isabel Mortimer

Isabel Mortimer is an experienced performance coach, focused on getting positive results for clients. She specialises in leadership development, cultural change, and enabling positive team dynamics.

Isabel has created a portfolio of coaching and leadership programmes and has supported cultural exchange and team development work across a range of high-profile organisations. She is a fellow of the prestigious Clore Leadership Programme and is employed by The Clore Leadership Programme to help support fellows in developing as transformational leaders.

Isabel has endless energy for people realising their unique potential and pursuing the powerful impact they create in the world, when they unleash that focus, flow and drive.

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Prince Laryea

Passionate about helping leaders discover energy, clarity and resilience to lead well, Prince draws on his extensive experience to support individuals and teams towards greater fulfilment and success. Prince’s coaching approach provides a place of support, encouragement, and challenge, enabling deep reflective practice. Through curious and incisive questioning and drawing from his own experiences of overwhelm and burnout, Prince supports leaders to discover courage, strength and self-compassion to navigate through times of uncertainty, challenge, and change in both their professional and private worlds. 

Prince is a qualified coach with over 15 years of experience coaching leaders across the sector. Drawing from his diverse experience spanning executive leadership, creative direction, coaching, and consulting across the private and third sectors.Prince currently serves as a director for a London-based consultancy specialising in executive coaching and leadership training, prior to this, Prince was Executive Producer for one of the UK’s leading touring dance theatre companies. Prince is also a qualified Mental Health First Aid practitioner. 

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Sarah Pickthall

Sarah is a consultant, trainer and accredited executive coach with specialisms in diversity, equity and inclusion. With over 25 years of experience across, arts, culture, heritage, creative media, digital and education, Sarah’s work is dedicated to ensuring a broad range of voices and opinions are represented and included in the creative and cultural fabric of the UK and beyond. Sarah was one of the first women to train in Japanese Kabuki theatre and dance in Tokyo. A former television writer, performer and puppeteer for the Media Merchants, for CITV.

She joined Arts Council England in 2004 working in Disability Development and was the first Chair of its Disabled Workers Group. In 2008, she co-founded Sync as part of the Cultural Leadership Programme, alongside Jo Verrent, Senior Producer, Unlimited. 12 years on, Sync is the only leadership and coaching programme that explores the interface between disability and leadership for Deaf and disabled leaders in the UK, Australia, South Korea Singapore and Canada. She is a Trustee for StopGap Dance Company and Chair of Access All Areas Theatre.org in Hackney, London.