Emilie is currently the EDJI Programme Manager at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and brings over 17 years of EDI leadership experience spanning a variety of industries including the arts, non-profit, health & wellbeing, financial services and retail. She contributes through numerous arts, access & inclusion, future thinking networks, creative labs and advisory boards around the world, and specialises in the development of neuroinclusion across the creative industries. She is recognised for identifying systemic barriers others overlook & translating them into scalable, practical solutions, combining analytical rigour with deep expertise in inclusion, accessibility & human behaviour. Emilie is honoured to sit on the EDIAG Board at Creative UK, advising particularly on accessibility and the ethical development of AI across the creative industries, bringing a human rights and ethics perspective to national sector strategy and public policy.
Disability and neuroinclusion are her specialist subjects and she has led high-quality, people-centred disability support and inclusive practice across many organisations. Initiating the UK’s first British Sign Language Banking Branch launched Emilie’s career, co-creating with communities and finding innovative ways to make existing things accessible to everyone – particularly people that the original creators didn’t have in mind when designing.
Alongside her work in inclusion, and in her role as a practicing therapist, Emilie founded the arts collective Atmostherapy in 2021 which creates immersive sensory experiences for mental health, specialising in therapy for neurodivergent minds and people living with dementia. She is a member of iOH, the Association of Occupational Health & Wellbeing professionals and has found that the work she does alongside her inclusion work has really supported her approach, developing inclusion through trauma-informed practice and understanding what supports people to thrive in their work.
Emilie has been developing a network model over the past 9 years to embed inclusion effectively. Good decisions depend on being genuinely informed by people’s real experience, not assumptions, and networks provide that ongoing consultation directly into strategy, risk, ethics as well as bringing brilliant, innovative ideas for adapting products and services. Emilie has deliberately shaped networks as spaces for creative experimentation, where new ideas can be explored and people can find opportunities to develop as leaders.
She brings all of her experience & skills together through her inclusion work to deliver future focused, human‑centred change that makes inclusion a driver of growth, not a compliance exercise or a bolt-on, but truly embedded inclusion.
