Entrepreneurial Initiatives

Entrepreneur

Award-winning entrepreneur and social change agent

Caroline is an award-winning entrepreneur with a background in using arts and theatre-based approaches to learning and education.  Her first enterprise, the Beijing-based Hua Dan, was bootstrapped when Caroline was barely out of university yet went on to affect the lives of over 32,000 women and children across China, winning her the prestigious Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum award.

Caroline subsequently went on to build a scaleable model for using arts-based approaches to training and development with other marginalised groups across the world, through the US and UK-based Scheherazade Initiatives.  Harnessing technology through innovative micro-learning, in-person peer-to-peer training workshops, and breakthrough financing models, Scheherazade is on a mission to be the ‘Grameen Bank’ of participatory learning and arts-based approaches to social change, through the empowerment of grassroots leaders around the world.

The success of Caroline’s work in emerging markets has lead to multiple invitations to train leaders at all levels of government, business, academia and civil society through The Centre for the Arts and Global Leadership, a for-profit company based in Europe, that seeks to empower the ‘higher order’ leadership of current and future leaders through participation in arts-based and creative education.

Clos de Gaye, an initiative of The Centre for the Arts and Global Leadership, is a stunning retreat space and social entrepreneurial incubation hub in south west France, for artists and creative leaders from across the world to come together with others in education and learning programmes, summits, festivals, workshops and performances, to build a better world.