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Our programme wouldn’t work without the support from our members and network.

We are extremely grateful for everyone’s time, insight and advice. A group of coaches are working closely with the residents. We believe that business and life coaching can make an incredible difference in the residents’ journeys, helping them focus on personal and business maturity. We also work with mentors. A mentor is generally someone who can act as a sounding board, a person with whom the creative can: sense check ideas, gain confidence, get insight and wisdom and access new networks. Numerous members of the Club who are industry specialists contribute by running workshops and lectures while others meet the residents for coffee and often facilitate informal introductions.

Judging Panel 2010

Theatre

  • Michael Berg
  • Head of events at the Hospital Club
  • Michael McCabe
  • Theatre Producer
  • Josie Rourke
  • Artistic Director at the Bush Theatre
  • Lisa Spirtling
  • Theatre Director previous winner Creative Residency 2009

Music

  • Carol Crabtree
  • Director of Solar Management
  • Dan Ford
  • Head of Marketing at Barclay Card Mercury Music Prize
  • Kathleen Alder
  • Director of WildKat PR

Fashion

  • Camilla Morton
  • Fashion Writer
  • Narmin Mohammadi
  • freelance PR consultant
  • Pamela Daniels
  • Art director at the Ethical Fashion Forum
  • Selina Robison
  • Brand Communication Producer

Visual Arts

  • Hannah Barry
  • Director of Hannah Barry Gallery
  • Rukhsana Jahangir
  • Head of Art Department of the Museum of Everything
  • Samuel Gassmann
  • Independent Curator

Architecture

  • Catherine McDermott
  • Director of Curating Contemporary Design
  • Gavin Lucas
  • Senior writer at Creative review
  • Penny A Hudd
  • Ex Head of School at Kingston University
  • Antoine Choussat and Zamir Antonio
  • Eat Sleep Work Play, TBWA, previous winner Creative Residency 2009

Film

  • Emily Man
  • Producer and executive coach
  • Maggie Ellis
  • Head of Production at Film London
  • Michael Hayden
  • Festival Programmer at BFI London Film Festival

Coaches

Matthias Gruendler

Matthias uses his creativity and business knowledge to help clients bring leadership and cultural identity to life in new ways that motivate employees, stakeholders and customers. He is passionate about building brands and sustainable leadership. His background and skills as an Artist, Team Leader, Partner and Board Member allow him to re-frame complex business concepts into simple pictures and language that people can relate to.

Emily Man

Emily has been helping people develop their skills in work for ten years, focusing in particular on the creative industries in which she started her career. Her clients range from large media and insurance companies to individuals from across the creative and corporate worlds.

Nick Allen

Nick is a business coach. He specialises in nurturing and supporting the development of young talent. He combines a background in business, psychology and environmental sciences to create his individual approach. His clients describe him as an “active coach who is always looking to challenge my assumptions and current thinking”.

Paulo Pisano

Paulo is a certified HR Professional and Executive Coach who has worked with senior executives from companies such as AOL, Motorola, IBM, BCG and the United Nations. His work is grounded on the distinctions of ontological and co-active coaching, internal martial arts and meditation.

Patricia Caldwell

Patricia Caldwell is a lecturer in Hotel Management studies and a Personal Development Coach. She is an inspirational speaker and coaches a variety of clients of all ages to assist them in who or what they are destined to become.

Margaret O’Keeffe

A former corporate strategist, Margaret has executive experience across four continents. Her background as a Managing Director, Board Member, Regional Director and Certified Professional Coach (CPCC) enables her to align organisational culture with commercial outcomes. She has particular expertise in leadership training, team coaching, branding and new product development.

Caroline Sami

Caroline, founder of IDOLOGY, started her business in the 90’s not with a strategy or a plan, but with an idea: success lies not in disguising your uniqueness but exploiting it; whether you’re a writer or a banker, being yourself is the one area in your life where you have no competition. She delivers leadership master classes in the art of being yourself to Fortune 500 companies, and in a world that’s increasingly competitive, her message has brought a whole new meaning to ROI… a Return on Individuality.

Mentors & Contributors

Caroline Benson

Caroline Benson is a Director of the not for profit arts organisation FuseArts. After obtaining a degree in History of Art and Architecture at Manchester University, she began her career at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco managing the Friends of New Art program set up to educate its patrons of the rarities of the art world. She split her time over the past 10 years between the arts and Marketing in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and London and has always had a great passion for charity work and the community.

Helen Starr

Helen Starr is the founder of the not-for-profit arts organisation FuseArts. She launched the seminal Cork Street gallery Entwistle almost 20 years ago where she showed among others Marlene Dumas, Jan Fabre and Lisa Yuskavage. She curated the only major exhibition of Marcel Duchamp in the UK for the past 50 years and currently lives with her family amidst an extensive collection of contemporary art and mid – century modern furniture.

Caroline Sami

Caroline, founder of IDOLOGY, started her business in the 90’s not with a strategy or a plan, but with an idea: success lies not in disguising your uniqueness but exploiting it; whether you’re a writer or a banker, being yourself is the one area in your life where you have no competition. She delivers leadership master classes in the art of being yourself to Fortune 500 companies, and in a world that’s increasingly competitive, her message has brought a whole new meaning to ROI… a Return on Individuality.

Kevin Osborne

Kevin is the Founder and CEO of KO Management, a business incubator/consultancy. He was previously Founder/Director of Tribal Tree, an artistic development and outreach programme that organised music workshops in community centres, etc. He is now heavily involved with Cultural Quarter, a programme that aims to bring together Covent Garden’s main cultural institutions.

Juliet Haygarth

Juliet started her career working in marketing and communications for The Samaritans, The British Red Cross and Barnardo’s. She then sold her soul to the corporate devil of advertising, leading accounts such as Virgin, Playstation and the Labour Party. Juliet used to be the Hospital Club’s Head of Marketing and Communications. She has just moved to become Managing Director at the Brothers & Sisters advertising agency.

Amanda Murray

Amanda works with multinational organisations to identify and review senior leadership talent and develop their vision, missions and strategic plans. Her areas of specialisation are Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Presentation, Systems Thinking, Project Management, Change Management, Negotiation and Sales.

Tom Cowling

Tom specialises in intellectual property, media and entertainment law and commercial litigation with a particular expertise in trade mark, copyright and contractual matters and defamation. Tom has been involved in numerous reported trials and appearances in the High Court.

Lee McCormack

Lee graduated from Goldsmith’s in 1997. He is the author of the book “Designers Are Wankers” and the founder of the website of the same name and a speaker and mentor at several educational and commercial institutions including Coutts Asset Management training for young entrepreneurs. Lee is currently working on his project called Ovei, a cocoon-shaped work, a room of one’s own shaped to the curves of the body.

Sydney Levinson

Sydney Levinson is a London based accountant who specialises in working with artists and creatives. He’s also heavily involved in the designer/maker scene – on the board of Cockpit Studios and Contemporary Applied Arts. Sydney is a specialist who understands the pressures and challenges of working in the Creative Industries.

Michael Berg

Michael is Head of Events at The Hospital Club and produces over 1000 events each year. Highlights include Harvey Weinstein’s post BAFTA party, and the “Wicked” premiere party for Universal. Previously, he acted as a talent agent for over 10 years respresenting actors, writers, directors and composers in theatre, film and television. He has also produced numerous art exhibitions, concerts and award ceremonies including the UKC Hero Awards honouring Sir Elton John and Liza Minnelli.

Carol Crabtree

Carol Crabtree set up Solar Management in 1993 and it has since grown to a close-knit team of client managers and assistants. Solar manages some of the most talented artists around today including Zero 7, David Holmes, Matthew Herbert, Josephine Oniyama and Four Tet and producers Nigel Godrich, Dan Grech Marguerat, Leo Abrahams and Sally Herbert. This has brought them a wealth of experience in producer and artist development, recording, touring, budgeting and all producer and artist contracts.

Pamela Daniels

Pamela Daniels, uber eco fashion stylist and creative director of the pioneering Ethical Fashion has worked with the BBC, Living TV and the V&A, dressing industry professionals, musicians, performers and catwalk models. She is one of the UK’s leading ethical fashion stylists. She would stack your wardrobe full of gorgeous clothes that hurt no one and nothing in the making, she is simply the best!

Nicola Stephenson

Nicola set up Mission in 2002 with an aim to establish a creative and effective PR and communications agency. Prior to this, she worked at Imagination for two years before moving to Freud Communications where she was responsible for heading up their new luxury division and managing consumer PR for Kerzner International. Nicola currently heads up the PR teams at Mission, developing media strategy and tactical PR campaigns on behalf of clients O2, Mappin & Webb, Goldsmiths and M.A.C. Cosmetics.

Josie Rourke

Josie Rourke is a theatrical director who has worked on a number of plays including a recent production of King John at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, starringJoe Milson (playing ‘the bastard’) and Richard McCabe (‘King John’). In 2007 Josie was appointed Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre in West London. She was also assistant director to Peter Gill in his premiere of The York Realist in 2002.

Maggie Ellis

Maggie is responsible for the Production Unit of Film London, vertically integrating all of the agency’s commissioning of film and audiovisual production. She has particular responsibility for developing the challenging and innovative Micro Budget Digital Feature Film Fun.

Kathleen Alder

Kathleen is the founder and director of WildKat PR, a creative young PR company specializing in classical music. Current clients include among others the classical music hub Dilettante, The Forge Venue in Camden and conductor Charles Hazlewood. Before creating her own company, Kat worked for Universal Classics, Decca and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. With the latter, she participated in the creation of El Sistema in Venezuela alongside Claudio Abbado and Gustavo Dudamel.

Dan Ford

As one of the directors and producers of the Mercury Prize, Dan has wide-ranging knowledge and experience of the music industry. His passions include art, cinema and of course music.