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Sade is a Disrupter, a Dreamer and a Doer who believes that power can and should be dismantled with kindness and compassion.

She creates opportunities that support people to know better, so they can do better. Sade is guided by an abundant imagination that understands there is never one way of doing things, that there are always more questions than answers, and that failure comes with the gift of starting again.

Sade works collaboratively to create safe spaces for herself and others to grow, evolve and unlearn. She moves with tenacity and care. With radical generosity at the heart of her practice, she advocates fiercely for the safety of Black and Global Majority folx.

At The What If Experiment, Sade listens deeply to understand where harm is being caused, what needs to change, and creates strategies that build cultures of belonging.

Chantel is an educator, creative and life-long learner who is continuously exploring the world and learning in order to move closer towards a society of people who feel whole as they strive to reach self actualisation and liberation. She is an advocate of creativity who believes that everybody should have an equal opportunity to live, learn and love in a nurturing environment that supports their growth.
Fuelled by a wealth of rich experiences garnered from years traveling the globe to far flung places, living amongst unique societies, she sees the beauty of people feeling free to live life on their own terms, free from the shackles of social injustice and in the light of the effulgence of existence.
At the What If Experiment Chantel offers a safe space where people can feel supported and thrive as they journey towards creating an environment that promotes belonging and supports growth.

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Simone is a creative architect, process deviser and personal connector with a methodology that brings engaging and experiential learning into the training room.

Simone is intrigued by the human experience - the intricate details that influence our habits, decision-making and behaviours.

At its core, Simone’s practice is people. She came into this practice through creativity. Fuelled by the radical and generous possibilities that rehearsal can afford us as a space to try, and fail until we succeed.

Within the rehearsal space for real life, Simone works with people to lead more impactful professional lives - whether that be by developing the self-esteem of young adults, building trust amongst board members or supporting leaders to be authentic and impactful communicators.

At the What If Experiment, Simone guides organisations through discomfort into accountable action, so that Black and Global Majority People can thrive in their creative endeavours and professional careers.

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Alex is a passionate and persistent doer, collaborator, and strategist. Fuelled by the potency and potential of collective liberation, they are driven to disrupt and rebuild systems in service of our shared liberation. Alex approaches the work of building an antiracist future as both a human challenge and an infrastructural one. Their particular focus is on the organisational, institutional, and economic forces which reproduce inequity. Calling on diverse experience from across disciplines and sectors, they deploy the lens of their mixed heritage and white passing to scrutinise — and, ultimately, to help reimagine — the hidden structures of oppression.

In their work with What If, Alex holds the process of auditing organisational policies and procedures, working collaboratively with the team to imagine and create institutional alternatives.

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Sharan is an educator, facilitator & changemaker passionate about empowering individuals and communities through transformational learning. She dreams of a world that is equitable and abundant, where power is in the hands of the good, gracious and great.

With a background in youth and education work, Sharan designs and facilitates programmes on gender & racial justice, wellbeing and leadership, and believes in the magic of creative and inclusive learning environments. She enjoys sparking curiosity and powerful conversation to affect meaningful change, and comes with a playful toolkit of strategies to empower groups to journey, learn and grow together.

At the What If Experiment, Sharan helps to create brave and compassionate spaces for people to learn in community, connect to their humanity and co-create a better future for us all.

Jane is a deep listener, avid collaborator and sober optimist. She is dedicated to co-learning, repair and equity to release each other in becoming our most capable, visionary, thriving, communitarian selves. As a facilitator, she is committed to holding brave conversations that address, delegitimise and undo whiteness, racism and other oppressions, and support those harmed by them. As a white middle-class cis woman, she practices redistributive justice and is constantly evolving understanding of this.
Jane’s background is in artistic and learning methodologies. These underpin her ongoing training in non-violent communication and conflict transformation. Jane offers long experience of intergenerational working, in cultural activist projects and arts organisations led by people younger than her, in settings where colleagues who are Black and of the global majority are the founders and leaders, and in processes of collective problem-solving and creative visioning.

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Sophia is a creator, facilitator and innovative community advocate who works across Fashion, Events and Youth Engagement within the creative and cultural industries. Her own perseverance and ambition has led her to be able to carve out her own place as an Ecuadorian- French Fashion Stylist, Podcaster and Speaker. She is the founder of Somos The Podcast - the first podcast that archives the lives of creatives from the Latin American and Abya Yala Diaspora in the UK. Sophia is held by her community made up of other cultural disruptors. A community that shares her vision that taking up space has to be with one core aim- to make more abundant, safe and well-paid opportunities for the next generation of young creatives.

At The What If Experiment Sophia applies her experience of juggling a million things at once to her role of time management and organisation. She uses her compassionate and forward planning approach to keep the What If Experiment being able to continue effectively and successfully delivering its methodology for dismantling systemic racism in the creative and cultural sector.

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Sheila is an experienced HR professional who has worked in a variety of industries.

She is a problem solver that is decisive, constructive and passionate when advising her clients.

At the What If Experiment, Sheila offers a flexible and pragmatic approach to finding the right solutions. This supports the development of a culture where everyone can flourish.

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Cheryl is a Facilitator, Coach and Writer.

She believes that everyone has something of great value to share and wants to create environments where people feel safe enough to offer up their gifts.

Her practice is wholistic, practical, and deep. As a coach she travels alongside people to facilitate the unconscious becoming conscious, and as an artist she spends her energy finding ways to share the shadow side of adulting so people feel less alone, and less afraid to be their full selves.

Cheryl’s practice is grounded in the desire to boost the self-esteem of the unseen and to celebrate difference.

At The What If experiment Cheryl’s work focusses on expanding consciousness and supporting a healthy unveiling of the truth of the society with live in, so we can collectively move towards a greater good for all.

malakaï is an embodied artist, proactive producer and unconventional educator from pre-gentrified Hackney who works across theatre, literature and events. Led by curiosity and care, malakaï creates and interrogates through an unapologetically Afroqueer lens. Currently studying towards an MA in Black British Literature, malakaï draws on a range of Black and queer writers, thinkers, artists and academics to inform their practice.

malakaï is intrigued by the root causes of inequity and oppression, believing deeply in dispelling the myths of a constructed, whitewashed history and pursuing truth whilst prioritising the experiences of people who have lived experience of racism. They are driven by their commitment to amplify the paradoxes and beautifully nuanced, multiplicitous experiences of people racialised as 'Black' who have to survive in cold, grey, hostile places like the UK. malakaï's commitment to this is shown through the bespoke nature of their consultancy work, which they do in tandem with being a practising artist; each hat they wear informs the other, in turn inviting engaging, experimental approaches to catalysing anti-racist thought and compassionate action.