Training & Consultancy Offers
Intersectional Leadership Training
A transformative offer for forward-thinking organisations
A collaboration between Head:On and Take the Space
Intersectional Leadership in Practice is a powerful, dual-approach training programme that helps organisations move beyond single issue EDI and into meaningful, embodied, sustainable cultural change.
Co-designed and co-facilitated with Jenny Williams (Take the Space), this training blends the depth of lived expertise with the strategic rigour needed to create real, organisational transformation.
Programme Options
1-Day Programme
A full, intensive journey exploring identity, systems, leadership behaviours and organisational commitments. Designed to catalyse meaningful change.
Half-Day Programme
A focused exploration of key concepts, practical frameworks and real-world scenarios. Ideal for organisations seeking a powerful introduction.
What This Training Offers
Embodied, Experiential Leadership
A creative, somatic and relational approach rooted in lived expertise.
Exploration of identity, power and structural inequality.
Honest, care-led methodologies influenced by mental health, neurodivergent, anti-racists and queer practice.
Techniques that support deeper self-awareness, imagination and collective understanding.
Emotional intelligence tools for leaders and teams.
Strategic, Policy-Driven Organisational Leadership
A systems-level approach connecting learning to practical action.
Clear, accessible frameworks for applying intersectionality to policies and processes.
Structural analysis of organisational pressures, gaps and inequalities.
Tools for difficult conversations, accountability and decision-making.
Expertise in translating theory into meaningful organisational change.
Why This Approach Works
This training bridges emotional, embodied work with rigorous organisational strategy, helping teams:
Build trust, rapport and psychological safety.
Understand how identity and power shape working cultures.
Link personal reflection to systemic change.
Communicate with more clarity and confidence.
Turn insight into practical, actionable transformation.
Intersectional Leadership in Practice provides experiential, embodied insight and strategic tools which reshape how teams understand identity, power and inequality, whilst offering clear routes to policy change, improved decision-making and healthier team cultures.
Jenny Williams is a Founding Director of Take the Space, a creative diversity agency bringing together policy, production and practice to co-create inclusive spaces with artists, organisations and communities. She has 28 years experience working in the arts and cultural sector.
Access & Disability Inclusion
Training for anyone embedding disability inclusion in their work
Are you looking to rethink access within your practice, or explore how audio description can be embedded into creative processes?
Many organisations care deeply about inclusion but need support to embed access meaningfully into their frameworks, studio processes and performance practice.
Access & Disability Inclusion Training is a disability-led workshop facilitated by three experienced practitioners working at the intersection of performance, access and lived experience - myself, Willie Elliott (Co-creator and Audio Describer) and Holly Thomas (visually impaired Choreographer) - long-term collaborators in my performance practice work.
We’ve created a structured, supportive space to explore disability inclusion in practice - with particular attention to mental health access, hidden disabilities and audio description. Through conversation, shared reflection and practical exercises, we will think about embedding access into practice.
This is a mixed-format session combining shared insight, open discussion and practical experimentation, including the opportunity to try out and experience embedding audio description within creative practice.
Available as a 1-hour presentation
or a 3-hour workshop
I bring my lived experience alongside my industry expertise, drawing on my own work: Rock Bottom, Head:On:Conversations and A Queer Collision as case studies for reflective learning.
A Queer Collision (2021-2024) has become a recognised case study for intersectional practice, co-creation, space shifting and community engagement. The project embedded access and audio description from the start and this experience shaped how we approach co-creation, inclusion and community, which is at the heart of what we bring to this workshop.
Our Access & Disability Inclusion Training is a practical and thoughtful workshop, rooted in lived experience.
Holly Thomas is a UK-based dance artist, choreographer, performer and educator specialising in inclusive choreography and embodied audio description.
Holly explores dance from a non-visual perspective, using somatic and contemporary movement approaches to reimagine accessible dance-making. With a professional career spanning over two decades, she teaches widely and is a respected facilitator in inclusive practice and contact improvisation.
Willie Elliott has been an audio describer since 2001, beginning with Graeae Theatre Company. Willie has worked across opera, ballet, drama, circus, live festivals and major international ceremonies - including co-describing the London 2012 Paralympics Opening Ceremony and describing for the Sochi Winter Paralympics. He is part of the Royal National Theatre’s description team and collaborates widely with Sightlines, the Royal Opera House and Diverse City on inclusive performance practices.
If you’d like to find out more, please contact me to discuss how this training can be tailored for your team or organisation
Identity
Mental Health
Emotional Safety
If you're interested in these topics, they are available as standalone training sessions or one-off workshops.