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Changemakers in action:
Inclusive and Impactful Leadership Programme

Léa Guzzo - EDI consultant

Get your leadership team fully aligned and equipped to lead your organisation with impact, empathy, and equity.

This leadership programme is designed exclusively for your Senior Leadership Team (5-10 people).

You will get expert guidance, coaching and a structured framework to collectively develop a EDI roadmap, without feeling overwhelmed with your busy schedules.

The result isn’t just individual learning; it’s a unified leadership team with a clear, actionable EDI roadmap, ready to guide your organisation’s growth.

This programme is the solution if your leadership team...

  • Lacks a clear, unified vision for its next EDI steps and priorities.

  • Struggles to consistently embed equity into your core business strategy and organisational culture.

  • Needs to build collective confidence and a shared, up-to-date language to discuss EDI with authority, nuances and sensitivity.

  • Wants to foster greater trust and psychological safety, but currently lacks the tools to lead courageous conversations on complex topics.

  • Wants to stay a relevant cultural organisation or creative business, keeping connected to the complex world we live in. 

Your senior team will get a powerful mix of:

Strategic Insights : Your team will discover crucial data and case studies on representation, pay gaps, and audience engagement specifically within the creative sector. We apply an intersectional lens to uncover your unique challenges and opportunities.

Expert Facilitation : Your leaders will build trust and alignment through professionally facilitated sessions. This is about your team learning and growing together in a confidential, supportive space.

Actionable Resources : After each session, your team receives valuable resources and practical tools they can implement immediately to embed what they've learned into their daily work.

Reflective Leadership Development : We create structured moments for each leader to reflect on their own identity and strengths, and how they can best contribute to the team's collective vision for a more inclusive culture.

Dive deep into understanding the nuances of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, how to prioritise wellbeing and learn how to leverage these insights to drive meaningful impact.

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Impact of this inclusive leadership training

100% of participants recommend this leadership programme to their peers

All participants increased their clarity regarding their future EDI steps.

Increased confidence in all areas covered by the programme

On average participants’ confidence increased by 54% when leading on EDI topics within their organisation

All participants valued receiving resources that helped them to delve deeper into the topic in their own time.

all stats are based on pre- and post- evaluation surveys conducted to measure the impact of this programme.

Benefits

This programme is designed as a strategic investment in your organisation's future. By partnering together, we will:

Develop a cohesive & empowered Leadership Team : Equip your senior leaders with the shared language, confidence, and practical skills to lead courageous conversations about inclusion. Develop leadership capabilities grounded in empathy and equity, fostering a healthier, high-trust workplace culture from the top down.

Build a clear & acttionable EDI Roadmap : Move from ambition to action by co-creating a clear, practical EDI roadmap that is tailored to your unique context and resources. Gain the strategic frameworks necessary to embed EDI sustainably into your core operations, enhancing your organisation's resilience and adaptability.

Secure funding/investment & Enhance your reputation : Strengthen your appeal to the growing number of funders/investors who prioritise equity, making your projects and grant applications significantly more competitive. Future-proof your organisation's reputation by building a genuinely inclusive culture that bolsters your credibility with audiences, partners, and key stakeholders.

Programme

An impactful 7-week journey to empower your leadership team:

  • Week 1 – The EDI Compass: starting our journey together as relevant changemakers for today’s Britain
  • Week 2 – Identity and underrepresentation in the creative sector, with a special focus on race and class
  • Week 3 – Building on identity: exploring intersectionality and privilege
  • Week 4 – Wellbeing in the workspace: why belonging is at the core of all
  • Week 5 – Empathy for more equitable and inclusive creative spaces
  • Week 6 – Courageous Conversations for impact
  • Week 7 – Crafting the future: action planning for your inclusive leadership

Practical information

  • Audience

I partner with leaders and their teams in values-driven organisations across  the creative industries and cultural sector. My programmes and strategic advice are designed with a deep understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities within these specific sectors:

  • Cultural Organisations: galleries, arts, theatres, museums, multicultural spaces, cultural institutions, libraries, archives, concert halls, music venues, dance companies, heritage sites, and cultural departments within universities and local authorities.

  • Creative Businesses: film, video, music, design, publishing, architecture, as well as creative agencies working in fashion, graphic design, and print…

If you operate in one of these areas, this inclusive leadership programme is built for you.

  • Timings

One 2-hour online session per week, for 7 weeks. 

To be defined together.

  • An investment in your Leadership & Culture

This programme is designed to deliver a significant return through stronger leadership alignment, and a more innovative and effective organisational culture.

This leadership programme start from £6,500 / 7,700€.

My pricing is structured to be both fair and accessible. The final investment is tailored based on your organisation’s status (e.g., commercial, charity) and the size of your leadership team (from 5 to 10 participants).

For a detailed quote tailored to your specific team, please book a call.

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  • What’s included
  • 🎤 7 live and online sessions (see programme for full details)
  • 🦻🏼 2 one-to-one sessions/participant to get to know each other before the programme starts and to ensure you feel supported during this learning journey.
  • 🎦 Recordings if one team member cannot make a session + the possibility to catch up with me if needs be
  • 📚Homework to prepare each session and drive impact
  • 👀 Resources packs, carefully curated for the creative sector, so you have the tools/templates/latest research to elevate your learning
  • 🎁 A welcome pack, because who does not like a present? 🙂
  • 🫶🏽 Bespoke support whenever you need it to ensure you all have the best experience possible

Do you want to discuss how this leadership programme could help your team and organisation?

100% of previous participants recommend the course to their peers! Are you ready to commit and drive change too?
Time to drive meaningful change.
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Léa Guzzo

I work in a very personable manner, challenging you to support your growth, yet always doing this with kindness and respect. I use creativity to help you kickstart your EDI conversations and drive impact together. I believe that we can learn/develop ourselves in fun, creative and interactive ways, without compromising outcomes! 

Check my testimonials to find out more about how I work and how I have supported other leaders before. If you have any questions, just reach out to me and we can take it from there. Easy! 

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Why I created this programme

My 15 years of experience working in the creative sector has shown me that we have to do better. 

Despite our good intentions and interventions, our sector still has a long way to go to be more diverse and inclusive. We must commit to doing the work personally and at an organisational level.

This programme will empower you to make changes and help you find your next steps within your creative organisation. It’s all about walking the talk.

Coming from an intersectional perspective as an LGBTQ+ working-class woman from a multicultural background, I’ve personally navigated the complexities and challenges of the creative sector. This unique perspective has reinforced the importance of equity and inclusion for me.

Throughout my career, I’ve tirelessly championed equity, including through fighting poorly designed systems and toxic cultures, whilst trying my best to stand up for and with marginalised individuals. It’s been a journey of self-discovery, which I am happy to share and reflect on with others. So everyone can benefit from my successes but also my mistakes. 

I have also driven change to create a more inclusive and equitable workplace for staff. I have also delivered inclusive programmes for and with our audiences. 

Moreover, having directed cultural organisations, I deeply understand the intricacies of making space to prioritise and act on your EDI commitments. It’s not always easy but it’s worth it. 

That’s why I created this programme.

I know that lasting change is driven by leadership alignment. This programme is designed specifically to give your senior team the confidential space and expert facilitation they need to learn, reflect, and build a unified strategy together; turning your organisation’s values into concrete, impactful action.

Testimonials

The course was really impactful for me and KARST. It was really well designed and effectively delivered. (...) The space [that Léa] created felt safe, open and reflective. Week by week I felt more curious and reflective as we covered session topics. The sessions had such an impact on thinking and curiosity that both [my colleague] and I found ourselves bringing session learning and questioning into both internal and external programme meetings. I now think a lot about my role as a leader and my responsibility in promoting EDI for KARST and personally.
Donna Howard
Donna HowardExecutive Director at KARST- contemporary arts gallery
I've gained new thinking surrounding my responsibility as the only person of colour on my team. My main take away from the course is how to take on a leadership role when discussing EDI. Using the techniques from this course, I'm more able to approach conversations about EDI with both more empathy and more assuredness.
Dulcie Fenton
Dulcie FentonRebels Manager at the Barbican Theatre
Léa covered the breadth of this issue really efficiently over the course. Spending 90 minutes a week on this important issue with time for reflection in between was perfect. The majority of the course being on zoom was also really time efficient and enabled me to join with a network of creative leaders who I didn't previously know. I feel much more confident discussing these issues and understanding why they are important. I am looking forward to putting policies and procedures in place at the Minack. It really was great, please run it again Léa!
Zoë Curnow
Zoë CurnowDirector at the Minack - independent theatre
This was an excellent course that really built my confidence around leadership in relation to equity, diversity and inclusion. There were areas that I was already familiar and confident about but the really special thing is how the sessions infilled the gaps and joined up ways of thinking about EDI. Seven weeks is a significant commitment but was well worth it.
Ben Borthwick
Ben BorthwickHead of Programme at KARST - contemporary art gallery
The course was brilliant. It was interesting to hear about some of the issues facing current sector leaders [...], and the course brought out some very important but often not-discussed or difficult questions. Questioning the question was also a fantastic tool.
Katie Riesner
Katie RiesnerUniversity of Exeter
I recommend this course. It was an accessible course that allowed participants to openly share EDI practice, reflect on their org's ethos and approach, as well as allowing space to develop understanding and to ask questions.
Sally Burne
Sally BurneCommunity Engagement Leader at the Barbican Theatre
[The programme] gave me a whole new lens through which to make decisions ... also gaining very practical ideas for action that I could implement within myself and/or the organisation.”
Hannah Harris CEO of Plymouth Culture
Hannah Harris CEO of Plymouth Culture
Wonderfully well-paced and holistic programme that builds a strong peer network and a reflective space for inclusive leadership. Thank you to Lea for the adaptable and receptive coaching.
Suzie West - Creative UK
Suzie WestLead Programme Manager - Creative UK
This is a really useful and insightful programme. I found that by working together on the course in a group across several weeks meant that a really safe and supportive space was created to have important conversations and to consider both personal, team and organisational approaches to EDI. It was great to have the resources and time to reflect and think deeply on this knotty topic and to create plans to embed positive changes in your own and your team / organisation’s work.
Bryony Harris
Bryony HarrisDirector of the Arts Active programme

Q&A

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Equity, diversity, and inclusion are not simply an HR function; they are a core strategic imperative. For cultural change to succeed, it must be driven and modelled from the very top. When the entire leadership team embarks on this journey together, it sends a powerful message that this is a fundamental priority for the whole organisation. It ensures accountability is shared across all departments and that your EDI strategy is woven into the fabric of your business, not siloed in one department.

This is very common. The programme is designed to create a foundational, shared understanding for everyone, regardless of their starting point. My role as a facilitator is to create a “courageous space” where all questions are welcome. We meet each leader where they are, ensuring that those new to the conversation feel supported while those with more experience are challenged to deepen their practice. The goal is for all to become more confident and capable inclusive leaders.

Yes, of course. Everyone’s lived experience will support them during this programme.

If you have any concerns, feel free to get in touch with me beforehand.

Before the programme starts, I will also organise a one-to-one meeting before the course starts. I want to ensure everyone has the best experience possible.

I have designed this programme specifically for the demanding schedules of senior leaders. The weekly commitment is:

  • A 2-hour live, facilitated online session.

  • An additional 30-60 minutes for reflection, pre-reading, or applying concepts between sessions.

This manageable, consistent rhythm is proven to be the most effective.

Don’t worry: I have got your back. They will have access to the recordings from the missed session, and if needed, we can have a catch-up before the next session. 

I have taken into consideration different learning styles. Thus, the resources provided are diverse. (e.g. there are videos or audio recordings, not everything is text-based.)

Happy to discuss any of your needs before the programme starts to ensure you have the best experience possible. So do not hesitate to tell me more in the registration form or discuss in our one-to-one. 

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