Tonic Transform
For arts leaders navigating unprecedented change
Tonic’s Transform programme equips leaders and senior managers with the confidence, insights and agility to navigate change and complexity.
We work with arts leaders across the country and know they are navigating unprecedented fast paced, high frequency change. The shifting social, economic, political, technological and climactic landscape is fundamentally altering how our organisations function, our audiences engage with us, and our workforces behave.
Leaders can find themselves spending less time shaping the future of their organisations and more time managing conflict and crises. The result is the sense of constantly firefighting. It can leave even the most capable leaders feel they are failing in their role. They are not. They are responding to pressures few people are equipped to navigate alone.
Tonic Transform responds by
- Providing pithy, practical tools and guidance, enabling leaders to deal with the challenges they are facing right now
- Creating opportunities for leaders from across the sector to come together to work through shared challenges, bounce ideas and build connections
- Giving leaders the skills to remodel, redesign, problem-solve and make decisions well
- Equipping leaders to identify the opportunities that all this change is offering organisations and artforms
Come and join us
If you’re a leader or a senior manager in the arts who would like to hear more about Tonic Transform events, sign up to the mailing list:
Bring us into your organisation
We can provide one-to-one support for you or your organisation, including working with your board and your senior leadership/management team.
Options include:
- Training in People Management for managers in your organisation: support them to respond to the shifting needs, expectations and behaviours of a changing workforce. Read more here.
- Coaching and one-to-one support sessions: for individuals, for Chairs and Execs, for senior teams
- Facilitation: we know the leaders and boards of many arts organisations are needing to have complex conversations about the future of their organisations. Ensure these are held well, by bringing in an expert Tonic facilitator
To discuss how we could work with you and your organisation, make an enquiry or contact our team at info@tonictheatre.co.uk to arrange a no-commitment call.

Feedback on Tonic:
“Working with Tonic has been transformational”
Sarah Turner, Director, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
“The Tonic team have an incredible knack of hitting just the right note”
Katy Winter, Senior Partner – People, Charcoalblue
“In one session, you feel you took a huge step forward towards something you thought would take months”
Paul Briottet , Académie and Concert Programme Deputy Director, Festival d’Aix
“Our work with Tonic has been thought provoking and ultimately supportive in exactly the way it needs to be”
Andrew Burke, Chief Executive & Artistic Director, London Sinfonietta