Jodie set up A Mind Apart in 2008 after finishing her degree in Drama at Lincoln University. She currently lives in Sheffield where she was born and bred. After taking a gap year before University and working with street children and children at risk in Brazil she fell in love with the country and regularly returns to work with a local community in Olinda. She is currently the Chair of Trustees for the charity Service of Hope, which is a trust that gives to the work with vulnerable communities in the North East of Brazil. During her time at University Jodie worked on a placement with a leading UK Pantomime company where she worked as an Assistant Stage Manager with leading UK theatre professionals, and has since worked in a range of areas in professional theatre, including directing, performing, management and writing. Jodie’s decision to work in community theatre came from the love she found in a form of theatre originating from Brazil, Theatre of the Oppressed. This passion led her to taking a course in Forum Theatre with Cardboard Citizens in London, where she was able to meet other practitioners studying this theatre. Jodie now specialises in Theatre of the Oppressed throughout her work and uses the techniques regularly within the work of A Mind Apart, both in the UK and abroad.
Jodie has a strong passion for social fairness and justice, which has helped to ignite the fire for her work both here and abroad, both in theatre and with social enterprises and cooperatives and charities. Jodie also has extended experience in youth work, where her passion for young people first started to grow. She has a Masters in Co-operative and Social Enterprise Management with Sheffield Hallam University, and now works with other arts and third sector organisations, offering consultation and mentoring. This includes a recently completed three year contract with the international trust building and reconciliation charity, Initiatives of Change. As one of their National Coordinators, Jodie worked with their national network supporting individuals to deliver the work across the world, whilst also having strategic input into the running of the charity and supporting with their fundraising strategy. This included the development and writing of a series of fundraising resources for supporters to use.
As a regular speaker at conferences and events on the range of subjects covered above, the third sector and gangs and young people, Jodie believes in social fairness and business with social responsibility, and is passionate about educating young people internationally about these issues, and how to develop fair businesses. Jodie’s work includes setting up and delivering international projects between partners in Portugal and Brazil and A Mind Apart. This work includes working with young girls and women who have been abused from or are in violent and abusive relationships, where Jodie is in the process of publishing a series of monologues around Domestic Abuse. Her work also includes delivering training to professionals both in the UK and Brazil, and working with sexually exploited girls in the UK and young people involved in gangs in both countries.
In between all of this Jodie still finds the time to mentor, coach and consult small businesses and freelancers as well as those starting out in business. She specialises in supporting those working in the arts and creative sectors. Jodie is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Entrepreneur in Residence with Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University.
Work history
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Consultant, Mentor and CoachJodie Marshall
United KingdomFreelance
I am a consultant, coach and mentor specialising in working with social enterprises, voluntary organisations and creatives and their organisations. Offering one to one support and advice, I also have experience in writing fundraising strategies, support organisations through change and diversifying.
Managing DirectorA Mind Apart
Sheffield, United KingdomFull Time
I founded this social enterprise and currently still act as the Managing Director. This position includes chairing a voluntary board of directors, developing the strategic vision of the organisation and managing a team of managers that have been coached and mentor through the ethos of the organisation and are fully supported by myself in their visions to develop their own areas.
Due to beginning the organisation from nothing, I have experience in a wide range of areas and for many years did many things by myself. Such things included copywriting for the website (which I still do), promotion and marketing, book keeping, policy writing, day to day management, teaching of performing arts, coaching and mentoring or staff and students, sales, HR and other tasks required to run a successful business in it's early stages.
The company is now over ten years old, sustainable and growing from strength to strength. I now have a strong team running a wide range of services, and work with them to make sure the company continues to be successful and live up to the customers and students expectations. We are currently market leaders in our area of performing arts teaching in South Yorkshire, which includes a wide range of services from after school clubs, classes and alternative education work and performances.
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Skills
- Business Coaching
- Mentoring
- Art Business
- Business
- Arts Education
- Education
- Performing Arts
- Charity Experience
- Business Development
- Creative Direction
Education
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Masters in Cooperative and Social Enterprise ManagementSheffield Hallam University
- Sheffield, United Kingdom
This masters focused on the management and business structures of cooperatives and social enterprises. It included modules in Coaching, Consultancy, HR, Charity Management and Strategic Change.
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BA (Hons) DramaLincoln Center for the Performing Arts
- Lincoln, United Kingdom
This degree was 50% performance based and 50% written based. It included modules in community theatre, global theatre, modern theatre, lighting and sound, stage management, media performance, acting for radio and screen, directing, amongst others.
During this time I was one of three selected students to complete an Assistant Stage Management paid placement with First Family during their pantomime season. This was completed in Woking.