Isabel is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach CPCC. She works with individuals and organisations in creating positive change, effective decision making, and robust strategic thinking. She is experienced in leadership coaching, working with organisational development and enabling positive team dynamics, most recently with The Royal Opera house, Tyne and Wear Archives & Museums, Capita, The South Bank Centre, Unltd, Britvic, Save the Children, Comic Relief, South East Dance.

She specialises in Executive Development, Career Development, Coaching, Executive Coaching, and Facilitation.

She is a coach and trainer with RD1st, where the focus is on training coaching skills for leadership and management, as well as training for individual coaches. RD1st offers in-house bespoke coach training to organisations and teams, most recently for The Royal Opera House, The Royal National Theatre, The South Bank Centre, Hauser and Wirth, The Clore Leadership Programme, and The Arts Council England.

She is the Director of Coaching for the Dancers Career Development, where the focus is on positive navigation through change and enabling clarity of focus.

Lottie Stables is Equity’s Industrial Official for Dance, and Secretary to both Equity’s Dance Committee and Choreographers and Movement Directors Network.

Equity is the performing arts and entertainment trade union in UK. It’s made up of 50,000 performers and creative practitioners. They are actors, singers, dancers, designers, directors, stage managers, puppeteers, comedians, voice artists, and variety performers.

For more than a hundred years they have been pushing for better pay, terms, and conditions for the creative industry workers.

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Andrew trained at the Royal Ballet Lower and Upper Schools, and his first contact was with Basel Ballet in Switzerland. He later worked with Ballet Gulbenkian in Portugal, Nederlands
Dans Theater in Holland, Berlin Ballet at the Komische Oper in Berlin, and Rambert where he was Equity Deputy and started studying Business with the Open University, later making his transition from performing to managing whilst working there. He led the Dancers’ Management Team at Rambert, was General Manager and then Executive Director of
Phoenix Dance Theatre, and then went on to be Company Manager, and later Company & Tour Manager for The Royal Ballet.
He is Chief Executive of One Dance UK, and is proud to be the Chairman of Company
Chameleon, a non-Executive Director of Dance Consortium, and a professional trustee for
AWA Dance given his commitment to both the transformative power of dance, and personal
and professional development for those working in dance. He completed the MBA for Senior Leaders in Arts & Culture in 2022, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Chartered Management Institute and was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list 2020 for ‘services to Dance, particularly during the Covid-19 Response’.

Charlie’s passion lies in empowering others to take ownership of their practice and champion their values through dancing. His training includes the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance, Tring Park School for the Performing Arts and London Contemporary Dance School CAT scheme. Charlie’s independent choreographic work is performed internationally, and he regularly delivers commissions for dance companies, training institutes and festivals; he has taken up invitations as Artist in Residence for research and choreographic processes across Europe and continues to collaborate with other artists as a dramaturg, co-author and choreographic mentor. Charlie nurtures close collaborations with Kirstie Simson and Milan Tomášik, and continues to perform internationally, most recently with Russell Maliphant Company. He is a sought-after rehearsal director, working across a variety of artistic environments and ventures for dance companies and independent projects throughout Europe as well as a passionate teacher, regularly invited to lead classes, workshops and masterclasses for dance companies, educational institutes and festivals worldwide. Charlie has been Associate Artist at English National Ballet, Associate Creative Director at the National Youth Ballet of Great Britain, where he is currently Artistic Consultant, and is currently Rehearsal Director at Scottish Dance Theatre. Alongside his commitment to the arts, he is a practising Clinical Sports Therapist, Movement Rehabilitator, Musculoskeletal Health Specialist and Biomechanics Specialist specialising in the treatment, rehabilitation and education of dancers and movement practitioners. A qualified teacher and assessor, Charlie lectures and examines on higher education and professional training programs in the U.K. and Europe. With a commitment to holistic practice, he is currently studying for his Graduate Diploma in Integrative Health Coaching and Nutritional Therapy. Charlie is qualified, and remains active, in pre-hospital emergency care and is studying for his Master’s Degree in Acute Medicine.

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Neus Gil Cortes is a choreographer, dramaturg, and teacher. She is the artistic director of Nua Dance, a
project-based company regularly funded by Arts Council England. She was previously a dancer
in companies such as NDC Wales, Hofesh Shechter and Dance Works Rotterdam as well as for freelance projects.
 
She has more than 20 years of experience and has been involved in over 60 creative processes in different roles and capacities.
 
Since 2022 she has been training in leadership herself through workshops including Discover
your Leadership by Clore Leadership (2024) and Coaching Skills for Cultural Leadership by Arts
Connect and University of Wolverhampton (2022).

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Dana Caspersen is a conflict engagement specialist, award-winning performing artist, and best-selling author working with individuals, groups, and communities worldwide.
Her book, Changing the Conversation: The 17 Principles of Conflict Resolution (A Joost Elffers Book), has been translated into 8 languages and is used internationally as a training tool by organisations, schools, and individuals. In her work integrating conflict engagement strategies with choreographic design, she has created and realised teaching and communication methods and large-scale public dialogue models bringing
together thousands of people from diverse communities across the world. As a leading collaborator of the internationally acclaimed choreographer William Forsythe for over 30
years, Caspersen has co-created and performed worldwide as a principal artist with the Ballet Frankfurt and the Forsythe Company. Dana has received the Bessie Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in the United States and was nominated for the Lawrence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in England. She lives in Vermont and Frankfurt.

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Vicki Igbokwe-Ozoagu is the Self-First Instigator, supporting artistic women to kickstart the habit of putting themselves first.
The Director of Empowerment at People Make It Work, a community of 60 cultural leaders aiding the cultural sector to change, develop and transform and the founder of Uchenna, a national touring dance company that empowers, entertains, and educates through dance.

She is inspired by dance, music, beautiful walks, delicious food and helping artists build an unshakable belief in who they are and the gift they uniquely own.

Even when they can’t see this gift…Yet!

Ultimately, she is invested in her clients’ joy.

The joy that comes from living their life in harmony, where their personal and professional worlds work hand in hand so they are energised, motivated, and inspired to put themselves first.

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