Sync Deaf Leaders @SoundOff online Spring, 2024, Canada Sync Leadership is the only disabled-led global facing leadership and coaching programme for Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent leaders working in arts, culture, heritage and media.
Sync has worked with over 300 leaders since its inception and creates access where there hasn’t been to coaching practices and leadership learning, changing lives irrevocably.
Background: Sync Leadership
Sync Leadership was founded in 2008 by myself and Jo Verrent through the then, Cultural Leadership Programme. Both disabled leaders who ourselves had hit a glass ceiling we were charged with the task of developing a leadership programme for disabled leaders working across arts, culture and heritage. We designed an opportunity that we ourselves would have wanted to be part of.
Investment in Sync was see as a timely and important thing as the nation prepared to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012. During this time between 2008 and 2012 Sync became the flagship programme for disabled leadership, working with a diversity of Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent creatives across the UK. Many who passed through the programme have developed and sustained high profile careers in the arts, despite the onslaught and ongoing challenge of benefit cuts and divisive political upheaval.
Following the programme’s conception in 2008, strides were made to take Sync Leadership across the globe, with programmes being run live and virtually in Australia, South Korea, Singapore, Canada, Jordan and Palestine.
In 2025, we are delighted to be running new in hybrid programmes in Singapore and Malaysia.
Sync has run in the following countries:
- United Kingdom – in person (2008-2012)
- Australia – in person (2014/2015)
- South Korea – in person (2018)
- Singapore – in person(2019) in person/online 2025
- Australia – virtual (2021/2022)
- Canada – virtual/in person (2021-2024)
- Jordan – in person (2023)
- Malaysia – in person/online 2025
