British Council and Clore Leadership Fellows and alumni are leading in the arts, culture and creative industries across the globe. You are a dynamic and influential network and one that both organisations are keen to continue to support.  We are operating in a time of great change and uncertainty, of shifting contexts and demands on us as leaders of people, of places and ultimately of our shared planet.

In this context we wish to understand better the common threads of leadership learning that would best support our alumni and invite you to join us at three online facilitated conversations this April and May.  

The online sessions will combine input and provocation from thought leaders around the world, an opportunity to offer brief snapshots of good practice, and to explore leadership learning needs with your global peers.

Information about all three sessions can be found below – you are free to attend any or all – and we look forward to seeing you there. 

Please note: ***BOOKINGS HAVE NOW CLOSED TO ATTEND LIVE ON ZOOM. You can still sign up to receive a recording of the event/s using this form.

Adaptive Leadership - Place 
What does a flourishing culture look like in our local and regional contexts?  How can we be adaptive, innovative and responsive to the cultural needs of our location and our communities.

Thursday 4th May 2023, 2-4pm (GMT) / 3-5pm (BST)

Chair: Skinder Hundal MBE, Director of Arts, British Council

Panellist: Dr. Dwinita (Tita) Larasati – Product Designer, lecturer and researcher at Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia and active in Bandung Creative City Forum (BCCF), Indonesia Creative Cities Network (ICCN), and Bandung City of Design, UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN). 

Pannellist: Teesa Bahana - Director of 32° East, an independent non-profit organisation, focused on the creation and exploration of contemporary art in Uganda. Teesa also runs the KLA ART festival, and international residency exchange programme with partners from across the world.

Adaptive Leadership - Planet
How can we lead with a global context in mind?  What is the role of culture and cultural diplomacy in a world facing global challenges, global inequality and an uncertain future?

Wednesday 10th May 2023, 9.30-11.30am (GMT) / 10.30-12.30pm (BST)

Chair: Rehana Mughal, Director, Creative Economy, British Council

Panellist: Ananya Bhattacharya - a social entrepreneur specialising in gender, culture and sustainable development and an electrical engineer from the Jadavpur University and a Commonwealth Scholar with Masters in Sustainable Development from Staffordshire University. Ananya is Co-Founder and Director of banglanatak dot com headquartered at Kolkata and working across India for inclusive and sustainable development using culture based approaches since 2000. 

Panellist: Syed Jazib Ali - Jazib is a documentary practitioner with a sharp eye for human interest. His work focuses on global advocacy projects that help bring inclusive sustainability, societal equality and fair human rights.

Adaptive Leadership - People
How can we lead people creatively, collaboratively and with impact?  What are the leadership practices and models which we are turning to and exploring in these times?  How do we stay well and resilient as leaders?

Wednesday 31st May 2023, 3-5pm (GMT) / 4-6pm (BST)

Chair: Hilary Carty, Executive Director, Clore Leadership

Panellist: Boitumelo Tumy Motsoatsoe - the founder and Managing Director of Ayama Creatives (PTY) LTD and former Head of Programmes at Business and Arts South Africa NPC (BASA). Tumy's core interest areas are inclusion, access and impact. She is deeply passionate about leadership, women and young people and has played a critical role in the development of various platforms, campaigns and programmes with partners including: Rand Merchant Bank, Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, British Council and the Mandela Institute for Development Studies. In 2022, she was selected for the Mandela Washington Fellowship in the Leadership in Business track, in 2019, she was selected as one of the Mail and Guardian 200 Young South Africans and was selected as one of the international fellows for the Chevening Clore leadership Programme.

Panellist: Amayah Pelegrin is a creative strategist, coach and facilitator whose mission it is to awaken the full potential of people and organisations to thrive and co-create a sustainable future. She has delivered leadership development projects and coaching programmes for over 700 organisations and individuals in the UK, Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia on creativity, organisational development, climate action and intercultural understanding, and her most recent research “Feel Your Feelings: Thriving in the Cultural Workplace” is an exploration of how embodied emotional intelligence is crucial to our ability to creatively and collectively lead through times of crisis. She runs her own consultancy, The Field, regularly collaborating with other organisations dedicated to creative change making, and is a fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme. 

These online facilitated conversations are part of a partnership project between British Council and Clore Leadership with the aim of mapping international leadership programmes and outcomes, and supporting the co design and creation of leadership learning delivery pilots to support alumni needs. 

If you are not able to attend a particular session please do sign up to receive a recording, alongside an opportunity to contribute your thoughts on leadership learning needs and an opportunity to contribute to programmes as they develop.

All the workshops will be in English and will have live captioning. A transcript will be provided after the event.

Dear all,

Please humor me while I do this training for Webforms. 

I will be asking a few questions about you and to gain a baseline level of your current engagement of Eurovision. We will then get on to the nitty gritty, where there will be a series of options for you to select your preferences on performances. 

This should take you no more than 10 minutes.

Lots of important instructions!

Thank you for taking part in the Clore Leadership Fellowship Residential. Your feedback is valuable to evaluate your experience, help us improve what we provide and how we provide it, and to help us understand the impact of the residential for you.  Please complete the following  questionnaire by 27th March. It should take 10-15 minutes to complete. 

We are delighted to announce this event series of new Leadership Experience sessions as part of our new programme for cultural sector leaders in the Tees Valley region. 

To register to attend, please complete this short webform. Zoom details for the event will be provided in advance. 

Online on Zoom, Wednesday June 13 2023, 11.00-12.30

As part of the new programme of leadership development for the arts and culture sector in the Tees Valley, this is the first event of a series of facilitated conversations where leaders will share their stories and experiences. 

Please note this series is for people living or working in the cultural sector in the Tees Valley.

Our speaker: Jamie Beddard is Joint Artistic Director of Diverse City, and Lead Artist in Extraordinary Bodies. 

He is a Clore Fellow and a qualified RD1st coach.

Recent artistic projects include two Extraordinary Bodies theatre productions; Delicate, (writer and co-director) that toured nationally autumn 2022, and Waldo’s Circus of Magic and Terror (co-writer with Hattie Naylor) touring nationally spring 2023.  He was also involved in co-directing a large-scale outdoor film and community project on Dartmoor as part of Green Spaces Dark Skies in 2022, and co-directing Extraordinary Bodies’ outdoor, inclusive circus performance, ‘Splash!’.

As a performer Jamie has played the title role in the Elephant Man, the Leader in The Messiah at Bristol Old Vic, the role of Mathias in The National Theatre’s production of The Threepenny Opera, and performed in ‘Weighting’, a large-scale outdoor circus show created by Extraordinary Bodies.

He has previously been Agent for Change at The New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich,  Diversity Officer (Arts Council), Associate Director (Graeae Theatre Company) and Editor of ‘Disability Arts in London’ magazine (DAIL).  Additional directing credits include ‘The Last Freakshow’ (Fittings), ‘Can I Be Frank With You’ (‘Datco’) and ‘The Trouble With Richard’ (Graeae). Numerous acting credits include Quills, I.D, All the King’s Men, Wonderful You (Film/TV) and Ubu, Alice in Wonderland, Flesh Fly (Graeae), 15 Seconds (Traverse) and Waiting for Godot (Tottering Bipeds).

Please provide information about any access requirements you may have to support your attendance online when you register to attend. 

28 March, 1-2pm, Online on Zoom

Thank you for your interest in attending the Tees Valley Skills Development days Q&A. Please fill in the following form to register your attendance. This session will be recorded, with BSL interpretation, audio description and captions. If you are unable to join us, you can submit your questions in advance below, and we will send a link to the recording after the event has passed.

Please note: you will be sent the Q&A joining link a couple of days before the event. Thank you.

At our meeting next week, we are commencing our exploration of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in governance terms, as set out in the Charity Governance Code. This is not a one-off piece, but an ongoing discussion to build a shared understanding from our multiple perspectives. To kick-start the debate, it would be appreciated if you could please take a few minutes to respond to the questions below, enabling us to understand where we are as a board. A response by close of play Monday 20th March would be much appreciated. All responses to this survey will be anonymous. Thank you.