JANET DUGDALE CONSULTING
I am an independent consultant
and experienced leader working with museums, heritage and culture.
From cultural heritage to public history, inclusive storytelling, community engagement and placemaking, I enjoy pulling on the threads that open new conversations and enable opportunities.
Being curious, connected and collaborative enables me to support change.
If you want help in developing ideas, projects or your organisation, or you need a critical friend then you are in the right place.
Working with me
With extensive experience working with heritage, museums, historic buildings and community organisations, I have considerable expertise from my leadership and governance roles that brings depth and clarity to my work with clients.
My work focuses on
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being a critical friend and a project mentor
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project and strategy development
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supporting organisational change
For me, supporting museums, heritage, cultural organisations and communities enables relevant and meaningful places.
My approach to consulting centres on being collaborative and approachable. I work with organisations, with social and cultural purpose, to explore options and find solutions together.
Leadership & consulting
My leadership experience includes:
Delivering high profile capital projects and exhibitions
including associated funding bids, alongside developing strategic partnerships, collections and audiences.
Enabling approaches to co-creation and co-production
with a people-based / storytelling approach to collections, social value and impact.
Advocating for heritage and museums
through non-exec roles as well as speaking in the UK and internationally on participative working and museum development.
Rebecca Solnit's powerful words on the value of sharing stories connect with me:
‘The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the imaginary lines we draw between them, the readings we give the sky, the stories we tell.’
Rebecca Solnit (Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics, 2007)