Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Consultants in the UK
We help your organisation work toward positive change.
Strategies include:
✓ Building a robust long-term strategic plan to maintain and elevate positive progress
✓ Helping organisational leaders remove barriers to better support their team
✓ Creating, delivering, and implementing actionable, measurable training plans tailored to the organisation’s goals and needs
✓ Ensuring there is a clear evidence base and providing a system for evaluation and review
✓ Offering guidance, validation, and understanding to individuals who are experiencing discrimination and providing tools to navigate difficult, even unacceptable, situations
✓ Leadership coaching to support leaders to be accountable for and embed their inclusion strategy
Representation
matters.
Supporting Your Organisation with Diversity & Inclusion in Mind
We strive to inspire innovative progression of representation and diversity in the arts - both on stage and in the audience. We aim to support performing arts organisations by creating a diverse, representative workforce and audience base.
Our consultants work closely with leaders and their teams to analyse an organisation’s current standing with diversity, equity, and inclusion.
We focus on practical, implementable strategies with an intersectional approach. These tools and solutions help foster consistent, positive movement toward a more inclusive space for everyone involved.
““If you want to go quick, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.””
Spotlight Inclusion’s Values
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Thoughtful representation within your organisation elevates both team performance and audience engagement. Hearing the voices and seeing the faces of marginalised groups propels positive change.
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Being inclusive means more than simply having diverse talent. Committing to a work culture of belonging, where people can show up as authentic versions of themselves, is part of the process.
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We grow and adapt through creative, artistic expressions to fully represent those who participate in the arts and those who observe the stories we tell.
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When we listen to and learn about each other, we broaden our perspective and deepen our connection - inside and outside of our workplace. We shape our work culture to represent us in our uniqueness.
Who we are
Shonagh Reid
Director
With her extensive background in leadership and education, Shonagh Reid, director of Spotlight Inclusion, helps identify key areas for EDI transformation and helps cultivate a successful and inclusive foundation for your organisation. Associate consultants at Spotlight Inclusion have vast experience of leadership, delivering training and understanding of the specific challenges the arts face.
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Having graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Shonagh has had a career as a professional musician. She later transitioned into education as a teacher of music, Head of Performing Arts and senior leader.
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As a senior leader in education, Shonagh highlighted and celebrated diversity and worked with others in education to develop their practice of diversity and inclusivity with their teams.
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Shonagh became the executive leader of BAMEed Network for the East Midlands and focused on nurturing positive change across a large region. She now works with organisations in the arts such as The Old Vic Theatre and the National Theatre.
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Consultant and facilitator
mezze is the Diversity and Inclusion Associate at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre and an Advisor for Bloomsbury Lit in Colour. mezze worked with Pearson and AQA exam boards to increase global majority representation in their GCSE and A Level Exam Specifications. mezze eade is also a creative engagement practitioner and has worked with the Donmar, National Theatre, The Old Vic, Theatre Royal Stratford East, UEL (University of East London) and Young Vic.
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Consultant and facilitator
Adam (he/him) is a Lecturer and Researcher in Education at the University of Derby. He is also the co-founder of Pride & Progress: an organisation that supports schools to develop their LGBT+ inclusion. Adam has 15 years of teaching experience in secondary schools, holding a variety of leadership positions, most recently as the DEI lead. He also has a Doctorate in Education exploring how schools can become more inclusive spaces.
