Giving 'stranded' graduates back their agency, confidence and momentum.

After a decade of working for arts organisations from the Aldeburgh Festival to Blackheath Halls, Alastair joined Sainsbury’s as its first Arts Sponsorship Manager working to Lord Sainsbury. This showed him the transformative power of the creative industries for everybody, through schemes like Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year and Sainsbury’s Pictures for Schools. 

He joined Unilever UK in 1999 and created the Catalyst Project. Responding to Unilever’s position as one of the country’s largest advertisers (and storytellers), Catalyst won awards for using many artists and art forms to help expand the creative quality across all brands.

In 2006 Alastair created his agency, Creamer & Milliken, dedicated to improving the culture of organisations, which he still runs. The work has involved coaching leaders and leadership teams through change. 

In 2012, Eyes Wide Opened was launched and welcomed all people, from 6 ^th Formers to early retirees, who felt stuck at their time of life. The Pandemic curtailed that, and EWO has been waiting in the wings. Until now. 

Julie works with body, mind and spirit. 

She has deep knowledge of verbal and physical communication through a decade of acting and another as a writer and interviewer at the BBC.  She has a compassionate understanding of what drives and blocks us from her training as both psychotherapist and coach. And she has a fascination with the stuff that influences our happiness and success which is harder to pin down – what Van Morrison called ‘the inarticulate speech of the heart’. 

She believes we need to pay attention to all these aspects to bring about self-knowledge, confidence, effectiveness and – with any luck – happiness. 

Over three decades she’s worked in personal and professional development as facilitator, performance coach and language consultant for countless organisations from The Red Cross and Lambeth Council to Sky, Sony, PepsiCo and Boots.

In her spare time she’s writing a book about her encounters with the great and the good as the pre-interviewer for BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. (David Attenborough, Jane Goodall and Billy Connolly are her favourites!).

Georgie has spent the last three decades helping people and organisations work out their next move.

She led business development at IDEO, then ran Made by Many, turning it from loss-making to profitable within a year.

She went on to found Peopleful, and co-founded the charity Minds@Work to de-stigmatise mental ill health at work.

A trained coach, she is structured, direct and warm, and focuses on turning insight into action. She carried out the research behind this programme’s relaunch, so she has heard first-hand what stranded graduates are up against.

Outside work she cycles up mountains, scrambles in the Lakes and walks the dogs by moonlight.