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, and a non-Executive Director of Dance Consortium. He is currently one of 21 Global Arts Management Fellows taking part in the DeVos Institute of Arts and Non-Profit Management’s international Executive Fellowship programme.

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.
Alongside her own creative work, she regularly facilitates leadership and professional development sessions for organisations including Sadler’s Wells, NCCA and Dance Leaders Group. Neus also hosts the Lead & Create podcast, which shares conversations with artists and cultural leaders about leadership, creativity, and the independent dance sector.

Her work combines practical experience as a maker and dramaturg with a commitment to creating supportive, collaborative spaces for artists to thrive.

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Dana Caspersen is a conflict engagement specialist, award-winning performing artist,
and best-selling author. She works globally with individuals, groups, and communities
as a trainer, consultant, and dialogue designer. Her work integrates conflict engagement practices with choreographic design to create innovative teaching methods and dialogue models.

Caspersen co-created and performed worldwide with Ballet Frankfurt
and The Forsythe Company for over 30 years. She has received the Bessie Award for
Outstanding Creative Achievement in the U.S. and was nominated for the Laurence
Olivier Award in England.

Caspersen’s books have been translated into eight languages
and are used internationally as a training tools. Her latest book, Conflict Is an
Opportunity: 20 Fundamental Decisions for Navigating Difficult Times launched in 2025.

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Vicki Igbokwe-Ozoagu is the Lighter Leadership™ Coach, supporting creative leaders and changemakers to trust themselves, redefine leadership on their own terms, and find liberation from stress and burnout. Her coaching invites clarity, confidence and courage, helping people put themselves first so they can thrive personally and professionally.

Her belief in empowerment and transformation runs through all of her work. She is the Founder and Creative Director of Uchenna, the dance company whose mission of empowerment, entertainment, and education creates performances and workshops that connect deeply with audiences and participants alike. In theatre, Vicki has built a reputation as a sought-after choreographer and movement director, bringing bold physical storytelling to stages across the UK and internationally. She is also Director of Empowerment at People Make It Work, working with cultural organisations to unlock potential, embed equity, and strengthen leadership across the sector. Vicki is a Trustee of New Adventures, the iconic and ground-breaking British dance-theatre company famous for telling stories with a unique theatrical twist, further extending her commitment to shaping a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable cultural landscape.

Across everything she does, Vicki champions self-trust, creativity, and boldness, helping people, whether in leadership, on stage, or in the studio, to trust their instincts, embrace who they are, connect to their internal power, and step into their external influence.

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