Welcome, we’re Alleyne &.
We help organisations and people create more equitable spaces. We do that by finding new ways to work. We always work collaboratively, developing likely and unlikely partnerships between arts and cultural organisations, mainstream business, academia and individuals.
Alleyne& is a team of associates brought together and headed up by Suzanne Alleyne. We work in a progressive style which enables individual talents to shine.
Suzanne is a London based Cultural Thinker – a title she coined to describe her work as a strategist, researcher, and conversational artist. Using these mediums, she works at the intersection of academic research, business, art and culture.
With her team, she explores, interrogates and studies the big questions currently facing contemporary society.
Strategy, research, artistry, collaboration and creating equitable spaces 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.
Alleyne& is both an incubator and consultancy, exploring and driving cultural change. Our team works within and sometimes across these two segments, incorporating unique skill sets and lived experiences to develop new approaches to addressing issues. The company uses research and findings from incubator projects to inform work with organisations.
We believe in integrating three key elements: people, purpose and profit. This holistic approach is driven by the belief that profit with purpose benefits organisations and our wider society. We deliver solutions by listening and leading at the same time & by utilising and building on our diverse experience.
Suzanne has a history of affecting real change in organisational cultures, successfully developing and testing new models of collaborative working with Swiss Ski and Arts Council England through their changemaker grant.
Our incubator pursues novel research projects, collaborating with thought leaders across the arts & cultural sector and beyond. Research and findings are incorporated into work with organisations, creating an iterative cycle of cultural change. We currently centre three key themes:
(1) Self-care and well-being
(2) Neurodiversity, progressive leadership, and innovation
(2) Power, culture, and equitable spaces
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.
Suzanne’s current key project is: “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. She is 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.
Funding and collaboration relationships include , Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Barbican, British Council (Canada), Lankelly Chase and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
An inaugural 2016 Arts Council England changemaker, Suzanne is a visiting research associate and guest lecturer at King’s College London a Brand Ambassador for Achates Philanthropy and an RSA, DEMOS and 2020 Churchill Fellow.
ADIDAS
ARENA
Barclaycard
BBC Radio 4
Carphone Warehouse
Channel 4
Chris Ofili
EA Games
Ekow Eshun
Esquire
FHM
Gilbert & George
HM Prisons
House of Lords
Jamiroquai
Jeremy Jones
Jose Cuervo
Kwame Kwei-Armah
Motorola
Onboard
Rocawear
Sleaze Nation
Sony Ericsson
Southbank
Spike Lee
Swatch
Switzerland Tourism
Tate Britain
The Face
The Observer
The Prodigy
The Roundhouse
The Watchmen Agency
The Telegraph Magazine
Trace Magazine
V&A Museum
Wellcome Trust
Wired
Zadie Smith
Swatch Europe
“…We have worked with Suzanne on a range of sports and lifestyle projects around the globe. As a brand consultant and producer she is the best we’ve worked with… “
V&A Museum
“Suzanne brings an exciting commercial sense of business to the art and is the most effective link between corporations and innovative artists – a brilliant thinker.”
GSTT (Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust)
“Suzanne has the extraordinary ability to cross between the commercial and public sector worlds with ease… It isn’t about the subject material that makes Suzanne a secret weapon – it is her ability to see the beauty of opportunity in the gap.”
House of Lords
“Her attention to detail is first class and she gets the best out of everyone she works with.”
Swiss-Ski (Swiss National Ski team)
“Suzanne delivered our change management strategy. It was challenging, but it was brilliant and it worked.”
ARENA
“Mountains have their own rules, it doesn’t matter which country they are in, you just need someone who understands how they work and who makes them work. That person is Suzanne.”
We are always excited to hear about new projects and partners. Reach out to discuss or just to say Hello! using the form or via comms@alleyneand.com
