I’m delighted to be part of the 2025 cohort on the Keychange Talent Leadership Programme. This six-month training programme is co-funded by Creative Europe and PRS Foundation, and will be bookended by trips to Tallinn Music Week and Reeperbahn Festival.

I will join 41 music industries change-makers from Canada and Europe on this programme, and I’m in some incredible company! I’m really looking forward to meeting everyone and building relationships and new collaborations through the year working together.

Keychange is a pioneering international initiative which transforms the future of

music by encouraging festivals and music organisations to achieve at least 50%

women and gender-diverse individuals in their programming, staffing and beyond.

Over 300 exceptional women and gender-diverse artists and industry professionals

have been empowered through Keychange talent development programmes so far,

covering 13 countries in Europe, Canada and the U.S., and Keychange Leaders is

supporting a further 42 participants based in 25 countries.

Keychange aims to accelerate change and create a better, more inclusive music

industry for present and future generations.

Keychange encourages all music organisations to take the Keychange Pledge and

to work towards a representative music industry. Join the Keychange Pledge at

keychange.eu

Keychange Leaders partners are: Reeperbahn Festival/RBX, Shiftworks/Tallinn

Music Week

Musikcentrum Öst, Keychange (ASBL), Music Export Poland, SACEM, Oslo World,

Workshops of Culture Lublin/Different Sounds Festival, Artist in Bloom, PRS

Foundation, FACTOR, SOCAN Foundation, STIM, Arts Council of Sweden, GEMA, Talent Norge.

Keychange is sponsored by FACTOR, GEMA, Music Export Poland, the Musicians’

Union, Norsk Tipping, SOCAN Foundation, Songtrust, SoundCloud, STEF, STIM,

Talent Norge, Amazon Music Italy and Italia Music Lab. Other Keychange partners

and supporters since inception in 2017 include Musikcentrum Öst, PRS Foundation,

Reeperbahn Festival, Tallinn Music Week, Oslo World, Different Sounds, Liverpool

Sound City, MaMA Festival, Linecheck, Way Out West, BIME, Ireland Music Week,

Find out more about Keychange here

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