Sync Leadership was founded in 2008 by Sarah Pickthall and Jo Verrent, two disabled arts and culture leaders based in the UK. Sync was designed to combine leadership theory with one-to-one coaching and group coaching techniques to develop Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent leadership in arts, culture, heritage and media globally so they could make greater impact and fulfil their potential and their ambitions.
Sync has successfully run face to face programmes in the UK, Australia, Canada, South Korea, Singapore, Jordan and Palestine. In 2020, Sync had to re-think its face to face programming. Working in Canada, we successfully moved our intensive programme online to deliver it in French and English, ASL and LSQ.
With support from British Councils, Canada Council for the Arts, Creative Australia and ongoing support from VibrafusionLab, our partner in Canada, we continue to resource and stage face to face, online and hybrid programmes across the globe.
Founders and Facilitators
Sarah Pickthall
Co-Founder Sync, Director, SarahPickthall.com
Sarah is an artist, consultant and executive coach working with individuals and teams globally. She has certification from the MSc in Coaching and Behaviour Change at Henley Business School, UK.
Sarah is a digital inclusion specialist working in arts, culture and broadcasting . She runs leadership and coaching programmes for ITV, NHS and helms Inclusive Cultures for Clore Leadership with 5 other disabled coach/facilitators.
Sarah produced the work of Deaf digital dance artist Chisato Minamimura from 2015-2019 and still works as dramaturg for her artworks.
Jo Verrent
Co-Founder Sync, CEO, Unlimited weareunlimited.org.uk
Jo leads on the delivery of Unlimited full-time, maintaining the workflow of the team and managing the impact the work has both in the UK and more widely.
Jo works nationally and internationally, promoting the programme and the artists. She is responsible for fundraising, financial monitoring and reporting.
Alia Alzougbi
Sync Associate – Alia Alzougbi
Alia Alzougbi is a cultural strategist, artist, facilitator and accredited coach working at the intersection of art and social and environmental justice.
Her practices use the arts to interrogate the fundamental causes of inequality and explore alternative modes of understanding the world and being in it.
Alia is Joint CEO of Shubbak, Europe’s largest festival of contemporary Arab arts and she co-facilitated the first Sync Arabi programme for artists from Jordan and Palestine in Spring 2023 in Arabic and English, alongside Sarah Pickthall.
Alia also works alongside Sarah as a coach and facilitator for Clore Leadership’s Inclusive Cultures programme.
Get in touch
For CANADA
Email : [email protected]
For UK and Other Countries
Email : [email protected]
Contact : Sarah on: +44 (0) 7956 853 150
