About us
Culture Change Works is a female-founded consultancy brought together by a shared belief in good work and what it takes to make change real.
Our team is based across the country - from Yorkshire to Brighton, via East London and Essex. We think that matters: we bring experience of different places, communities and sectors and we work with organisations across the country as a result.
Our backgrounds span strategy, evaluation, communications and organisational development, always focused on helping organisations think clearly, act on evidence and tell their story well.
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Hannah has worked in culture and education for over 30 years and is an experienced leader, communicator and coach with expertise across the cultural, creative and education sectors working with organisations including the Barbican, the British Film Institute, Goldsmiths University, University of the Arts London, Arts Council England, Bradford 2025 City of Culture and Somerset House.
Hannah spent fifteen years as Director of Internal and External Relations at London College of Fashion, UAL, where she led a large multidisciplinary team spanning brand and reputation management, communications, student recruitment, employability and fundraising. Prior to this she held senior marketing and communications roles in further education and worked as a broadcast journalist for outlets including BBC and ITN. Earlier in her career she trained and worked as a professional actress before retraining in journalism and moving into education leadership.
Across all of it, a consistent thread runs through her work: “I like to listen and really understand the challenges. Then find ways for people to work together to solve them. As a strategic communicator, I’ve always been interested in change for raising productivity, resilience and motivation.”
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Communicator, creative thinker and optimist, Holly has spent over 20 years supporting organisations in and around culture and education to think more clearly, work more effectively and tell their stories with greater confidence.
Her work spans evaluation and impact, strategic communications, and organisational change, always with a focus on the practical. She specialises in translating complex evidence into clear narrative and in helping teams cut through internal and external noise to find tangible solutions."My work centres on collaborative problem-solving and transforming ideas into action. I bring a practical approach to challenges and enjoy helping teams find clarity when things feel complicated."
Holly works across the cultural, creative, heritage and education sectors, with experience including Bradford 2025 City of Culture, Somerset House, the Paul Smith Foundation and organisations funded by Arts Council England, the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
She has particular expertise in place-based impact, public engagement and evaluation design, and in helping organisations communicate their value to funders, boards and the communities they serve.
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Laura Gander-Howe is a strategist and policy specialist with over 35 years of senior experience across cultural policy, evaluation and strategic development working with organisations including Arts Council England, Somerset House and the National Story Venues Cohort.
Laura's expertise lies in driving the connection between policy development and action - translating national priorities into programmes that work on the ground. "I love getting to grips with something, working with others to find solutions and routes through to enable positive change and outcomes." This has been the hallmark of a career spanning some of the most significant cultural policy initiatives of the past two decades. As National Director of Learning and Skills at Arts Council England, she devised and evaluated the Cultural Education Partnerships and Music Education Hubs programmes and advocated directly at ministerial level. At University of the Arts London, she led local and community engagement around the East Bank development, co-designing monitoring and evaluation structures that connected major institutional change with neighbourhood outcomes.
Laura specialises in co-designing frameworks that balance sectoral rigour with local relevance and brings skill in partnership building across all levels - from community organisations to government.
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Anna Jobson is a strategist, change-maker and evaluation specialist with over 25 years of experience across the cultural and education sectors. Anna was recently appointed Director at the Freud Museum, where she is leading the organisation through a period of transformation.
Anna's practice is rooted in co-creation and a conviction that change works best when everyone affected has a voice in shaping it. "I'm passionate about engaged change, and about ensuring that all of the people affected by change can have a say on the journey of strategy development or transformation." This ethos has run through a career defined by strategic leadership from over a decade at the Tate to authoring Arts Council England's landmark ten-year strategy Achieving Great Art for Everyone to leading the East Bank transformation programme at London College of Fashion, UAL, where she designed evaluation frameworks that connected major infrastructure change with community outcomes and partnership development.
As part of her consulting practice Anna has worked with a variety of institutions including Southbank Centre, Maudsley Charity, Somerset House, Helen Hamlyn Trust, Rambert, Tawala, The Lowry and Sadler’s Wells.