Bio

As a leader, Grace brings creativity to directing a national campaign focused on improving quality of life for people living with dementia through access to music. Drawing upon her person-centred experience as a music therapist, her proactive leadership is strongly influenced by her understanding of the daily experience of others. She thrives on working strategically to influence change across policy, care systems and communities through collaboration. As previous Development Director for the British Association for Music Therapy, Grace has a proven track record at working successfully across sectors and health and care systems, understanding the relationship between local and national engagement to achieve sustainable change. As senior music therapist in the NHS, working as part of a leading music therapy team providing high quality person-centred care, Grace focused on evidence-based practice through action-based research and evaluation to try and measure the seemingly unmeasurable. Grace is passionate about people and relationships and the transformational changes that can be made to people’s lives on an individual, community and societal level through innovative partnerships. Her charitable foundation experience and Trustee skills brings cross-sector insights, as well as governance and operational experience. A strong solver, she is particularly interested in how we can achieve better outcomes by thinking differently and flexibly about challenges and barriers. Comfortable in the uncomfortable, she and believes deeply in the values vision, creative thinking, inclusion, insight and compassion. As a collaborator and connector, she is able to lead with clarity of purpose and mission to deliver strategy. Grace is a lifelong musician with an unquenchable thirst for reading and love of radio.