Amanda Smethurst

Amanda is an independent facilitator, coach and consultant with a focus on reflective practice and peer learning within the cultural sector, and a love of supporting people to understand what makes their heart sing. 

Communities, culture and place has been a passion throughout her career within the cultural sector, HE and local government, where she has championed ways for people to shape the culture and places around them.

Amanda is a Clore Fellow, and is the chair of Middle Child Theatre, Hull. She’s also a mum, a potter, a gardener and a keen swimmer, which all make her heart sing.

Annette Corbett

Annette is a qualified coach and cultural professional with over 15 years’ experience supporting the arts, heritage, film and academia. She first founded her business as a creative consultancy in late 2020, in response to the seismic shifts the cultural landscape was experiencing as the covid pandemic took hold.

As a facilitator and creative strategist, Annette’s work unites professionalism and playfulness to establish open, supportive environments where we can gather in a spirit of collaborative curiosity and explore what it means to ‘work well’. She invites her clients to redefine success on their own terms, so they can step into a more joyful life that finds harmony between vision, ambition, and self-care.

Annette’s coaching practice has evolved into one that prioritises ease, simplicity, and stillness over structure. She specialises in working with women producers, creating communities where those who get overwhelmed by constantly making space for others can find opportunities to pause, take a breath, and make space for themselves.

Inspired by the wide horizons and ever-changing seascape near her home on the south coast of England, Annette helps her clients to see those moments when we come unmoored as an opportunity to reset our sails, and navigate towards a new north star.

Claire Antrobus

Claire Antrobus is a coach and trainer supporting leaders to create inclusive, collaborative, high performing workplace cultures. She specialises in coaching leaders at all stages of their careers (from emerging to succession planning/ retiring), co-leadership and neurodivergence. She creates high-impact training including a new accredited Coaching for Leadership course, and shorter Leader a Coach and Neuroinclusive Manager workshops. Claire particularly enjoys fostering spaces for reflective peer-learning and hosts Action Learning sets (including ND-only spaces, being ND herself) and peer learning circles.

Claire began her career as a gallery and museum curator and senior leader working for Yorkshire Sculpture Park, mima and Tate then moved into strategy roles for British Council and Arts Council England. Her recent clients include Unlimited, Paraorchestra, Birmingham Museum Trust, National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company. Claire is a Clore Fellow (2010/11), accredited Professional Coach and Action Learning Facilitator. www.claireantrobus.com and www.coleadership.info

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.

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.

Fearghus Ó Conchúir

Fearghus Ó Conchúir is a choreographer and dance artist. Frequently collaborating with experts from across and beyond the arts, he makes film and live performances that create frameworks for audiences and artists to build communities together.  He’s currently co-leading a dance programme with Micro Rainbow International to support LGBT refugees and asylum seekers. From 2018-2020, he was Artistic Director of National Dance Company Wales. He was the first Ireland Fellow on the Clore Leadership Programme in 2005. He was appointed to the Arts Council of Ireland in 2018 and became Deputy Chair in 2019.  He is Chair of the UK Dance Network. www.fearghus.net

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.

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. 

Prince Taylor

Prince works with organisations and people across multiple sectors to elicit a more considered approach to work and life. Primarily practising in the film industry with Latent Pictures, Prince’s focus on the intersectionality of leadership and wellbeing results in working relationships that centre on authenticity and sincerity. Results that are impactful in the short term and sustainable over the long term ensure there is value inherent in all of his collaborations. His use of coaching methods to nurture environments of discovery and practise along with a keen attention to transferability are elements that Prince is most recognised for.

Richard Beecham

Richard is an RD1st accredited coach, facilitator and trainer. He also has a background and continuing practice as a theatre director. Common to all his work is a profound interest in human psychology, behaviour and communication. He has a passion for creating spaces and holding processes in which people can explore, discover and flourish.

Richard is a Fellow and Associate Facilitator of Clore Leadership, where he works with leaders across the cultural sector; an Associate Trainer for Global Training Group where he works with a wide range of organisations from both the corporate and not-for-profit sectors; an Associate of Generate Partnership where he works as a coach for organisations and individuals in the social, arts and not-for-profit sectors; an Executive Coach working one-on-one with private clients; and a Listening Volunteer for the mental health charity Samaritans.Richard is an RD1st accredited coach, facilitator and trainer. He also has a background and continuing practice as a theatre director. Common to all his work is a profound interest in human psychology, behaviour and communication. He has a passion for creating spaces and holding processes in which people can explore, discover and flourish.

Richard is a Fellow and Associate Facilitator of Clore Leadership, where he works with leaders across the cultural sector; an Associate Trainer for Global Training Group where he works with a wide range of organisations from both the corporate and not-for-profit sectors; an Associate of Generate Partnership where he works as a coach for organisations and individuals in the social, arts and not-for-profit sectors; an Executive Coach working one-on-one with private clients; and a Listening Volunteer for the mental health charity Samaritans.