Dee is a creative facilitator and coach. She works with public sector agencies, companies, organisations and partnerships to develop people, ideas and innovative solutions. 

Specialising in providing new contexts for thinking, learning and making things happen, her particular skills are in creative facilitation and group development, gained through working in theatre and cultural industries development.

Before co-founding Creative Exchange with Matthew Haggis in 2000, Dee spent almost 8 years with Common Purpose - latterly as UK Curriculum Director - delivering learning programmes to senior decision makers across the private, public and not for profit sectors.

Previously a freelance producer for film and broadcast theatre and a local government officer in Planning and Cultural Development departments, her last local authority job was in Liverpool as Assistant Director, Arts and Cultural Industries leading a team of cultural development staff, writing and implementing the Arts and Cultural Industries Strategy for the City of Liverpool and establishing and managing the UK’s first Film Commission.

She was a Non Executive Director of Tameside C&PS NHS Trust, is a magistrate on the City of Manchester bench and has a development role with Red Ladder Theatre Company.

Dee now lives in the Peak District with her husband and youngest child.