D&M Training – “for the Cultural and Creative sector”.

D&M also provides Training for Cultural Leaders, Operators, and Practioners.

Cultural Leaders

We specialise in leadership training for the cultural and creative sector, providing professional development designed to equip individuals such as creative directors, artists, arts managers, and producers, with the skills to lead teams, projects and organisations in innovative-driven environments. .

We help you to;

Create meaning, connecting your team members to a clear, compelling purpose rather than just tasks, fostering a sense of belonging and “why”.

Champion New and Innovative Ideas to become comfortable leading in environments with “no precedent,” taking risks on new performances, exhibitions, or creative approaches.

Think Strategically, connect your organisation’s high-level goals with daily operations, ensuring culture drives strategy

Unlike traditional corporate leadership, our training focuses on empowering authenticity, fostering innovation, and managing the unique, often project-based and emotional, dynamics of the Cultural and Creative Sector. Our training is a specialised form of professional development designed to equip individuals, such as creative directors, artists, arts managers, and producers, with the skills to lead teams, projects, and organisations in innovation-driven environments. We connect you to other cultural leaders and individuals who navigate the complex intersection of creativity, community, and management, helping you to shape how people think, feel, and experience the world. Learning how to go beyond traditional management and act as visionary, empathetic, and often subversive agents of change, building, nurturing, and transforming organisations and communities.

Cultural Operators

We also provide training and development for cultural operators—including arts managers, creative professionals, and heritage practitioners—that focuses on bridging the gap between creative practice and business sustainability. Our training and programs are delivered through contact with specialised skill networks and cultural institutions to address industry-specific needs like digital transformation, fundraising, IP Management, Creative Hubs and Studios, Urban Integration, Upskilling in Entrepreneurship and Enhancing your Visibility as Economic Driver.

Cultural Practitioner

Cultural practitioners, including artists, community leaders, and heritage workers, require a mix of practical health and safety skills that bridge traditional practices with modern safety regulations. These skills focus on risk assessment, safety leadership, and creating culturally sensitive, secure environments.

Training includes:

Risk Management & Assessment: Ability to identify hazards, assess risks, and implement control measures in diverse environments (e.g., event spaces, community workshops).
Safety Leadership: Motivating others to follow safe practices and fostering a proactive safety culture.
Manual Handling: Proper techniques for lifting, lowering, pushing, or pulling items—essential for handling art, equipment, or setting up spaces.

We provide certified training courses for Manual Handling and Display Screen Assessment.