Culture + Strategy =
Resilience

Through strategy, research, and artistry,  collaboration and creating equitable spaces for all sit at the core of everything we do.  We bring teams and individuals together across sectors to create solutions and test new models of working. We explore and interrogate the questions facing contemporary society to create new, mutually beneficial partnerships.  

Suzanne Alleyne & Co is both an incubator and a consultancy company exploring and driving cultural change. A team of eight works within and sometimes across these two segments, incorporating their own unique skill sets and lived experiences to develop new approaches to addressing these issues. The company uses research and findings from our incubator projects to work with organisations to inform our work.

Consultancy

We believe in integrating three key elements: people, process and profit. This holistic approach is driven by the belief that profit with purpose benefits organisations and the wider society. Suzanne delivers solutions by listening and leading at the same time, building solutions supported by the diverse experience of her team.

We have a history of affecting real change in organisational cultures. We have successfully developed and tested new models of collaborative working with Swiss Ski, and Arts Council England through their changemaker grant. 

The CoLab

Our incubator pursues novel research projects, collaborating with thought leaders across the arts & cultural sector and beyond. Research and findings are incorporated into our work with organisations, creating an iterative cycle of cultural change. Our work currently centres around two key themes: 

(1) Self-care, neurodiversity, leadership, and innovation.  

(2) Power, culture, and leadership.

Artistry

As a conversational artist, Suzanne seeks to challenge inequalities in life through conversation and her process is always collaborative. For her, the art of conversation is how she makes sense of her life and her place in the world. In its creation, she seeks to shed a similar light for participants and audiences.

We are working on Suzanne’s new project: “Neurology of Power” [NoP]. This interdisciplinary practical science and lived experience research aims to examine inequality and power in the context of culture, arts, and leadership. We are investigating where and how power resides in the brain, using the lens of neuroscience, social science, academic thinking, and cultural practice. 

Based on a need to understand the ways in which the desire for power underpins systemic injustice and racism, this work has never felt more timely. Our funding and collaborating relationships include Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Barbican and Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity. 

Suzanne is a visiting research associate and guest lecturer at King’s College London a Brand Ambassador for Achates Philanthropy and a 2020 Churchill Fellow.