Gender + Leadership
Advocating diversity and gender balanced leadership to deliver more inclusive, cooperative and economically successful outcomes for everybody.
Gender
Creative Economist founder Erika Rushton is a consistent advocate of the benefits women and diversity, when empowered in numbers, offer to local and global economies and communities. Creative Economist draws on our consistent findings and wider unequivocal evidence, of the potential of gender balanced leadership to deliver more inclusive, cooperative and economically successful outcomes for everybody. One Day is an alternative Industrial Strategy for Liverpool City Region written by 20 women in one day and launched by Mayor Steve Rotherham to 100 women on International Women’s Day 2020.
Touring and talking
Creative Economist offers guided tours and talks to the emerging network of community ventures that are changing the face of Liverpool economy by combining social purpose, creativity and commercial viability. Tours range from a one day whistle-stop tour of inspirational enterprises and districts to four week individual placements or customised group summer schools for creative leaders who will each leave with their own ‘route map’ to apply Creative Economist’s action led approach within their own place, space or community of interest.
Public Speaking
Erika Rushton - Creative Economist provides public speaking, advice and expertise globally on creative entrepreneurship and place-making. Drawing on extensive experience, validated by independent evaluation and research, Erika inspires individuals, groups, communities and whole towns and cities, to harness creativity to reinvent themselves.
A regular contributor to Heritage, Arts and British Council initiatives Erika currently provides individual coaching to a network of emerging women leaders in the UK, Central Asia and the EU.
Publications
Creative Economist regularly contributes to Academic Research, Publications, Articles and Media appearances across sectors including Regeneration, Place Making, The Development Industry, Creative & Social Enterprise and Advanced Manufacturing.
Creative Economist hosts students and researchers in order to add to the evidence that the economy is not something that happens to us, or is inevitable. Creative Economist demonstrates that ‘we are the economy’ and how it works and who it benefits are within our collective gift.