Nicola Turner

Staff details

Nicola advises, consults, coaches and teaches, specialising in cultural leadership and entrepreneurship.

Nicola Turner has thirty years of experience in the cultural and creative sector, at the Cultural Leadership Programme, Arts Council England; Nesta, University of the Arts London and the RSA and since 2011 as Director at NT Creative Arts Ltd. She offers strategic development, creative project and event development and management, training and facilitation.

She works all over the UK and internationally, specialising in leadership and entrepreneurship. Consultancy includes the design and delivery of leadership programmes such as the ACCELERATE Programme for the British Council Australia; International Creative Entrepreneurs for Creative Scotland and the SEAD Program for the Mekong Cultural Hub and the British Council.

Nicola is a Lecturer on the MA CCE, working for ICCE since 2014.

Academic qualifications

  • MA (Cantab) History 1992

Research interests

Nicola advises, consults, coaches and teaches, specialising in cultural leadership and entrepreneurship.

Publications and research outputs

Conference or Workshop Item

Prime, Sian; Turner, Nicola and De La Court, Adrian. 2024. 'Cultural Enterprise and Leadership'. In: Cultural Enterprise and Leadership: Iraq. Erbil, Iraq.

Prime, Sian; De La Court, Adrian and Turner, Nicola. 2023. 'Rooted, Growing Island'. In: Cultural Sustainability: Rooted, Growing Island. Jeju, Korea, Republic of 14 - 20 September 2023.

Professional Activity

Prime, Sian and Turner, Nicola. 2023. Creative Enterprise Forum.