As a passionate speaker on the topic of passion, you can bet the audience gets all fired up! Abbie runs online and in person Passion Workshops for business professionals:
Taking a part-time MBA master degree is a serious commitment (on the side), but Abbie relishes a challenge. The result.. a distinction!
As an additional outcome, Abbie and colleagues set up a new business venture - www.who-cares-wins.co.uk - providing online and in person events and coaching and more!
When you get sour lemons… deciding to make lemonade is a positive approach... So when COVID strikes it was time to turn online.
Throughout the entire Covid lockdown Abbie’s ran weekly Gig-Arts charity painting events and delivered daily motivational messages. This led to the innovative creation of POP - Painting Online with Purpose - which is a painting event designed to motivate and boost creativity. It still continues at - www.gig-arts.org - and now enjoys large live events once again.
Abbie set up a unique opportunity for Lexis Nexis LNLP Enabled staff to create Doodle Artworks with expert guidance online from the award-winningly creative Gig-Arts Charity Team. Doodling helps you relax, expand creative growth, communicate your emotions, and enhance your problem-solving skills. And no, it doesn’t require any previous experience!
Let’s do doodling - online!
Embracing life-long learning, Abbie enjoys presentations with business colleagues. Pictured here is the international team presentation on cyber security on the MBA Course at Oxford Brookes University.
Living longer happier healthier lives is what it’s all about with the rapidly growing ageing population. Therefore the art of well-being is taken seriously.
Abbie runs two hour inspirational art classes for Bupa’s Richmond Villages and shorter classes for the Caring Homes Group and Porthaven Group.
Abbie was delighted to be a guest speaker and co-organiser at the Oxford Brookes Summer School, where the theme was ‘Beyond the Bottom Line.’
Global accountancy firm, Deloitte, has a respected inclusion agenda with a sharp focus on culture change alongside gender balance, ethnicity and agile working. Deloitte is passionate about supporting talented women to re-enter the workplace after a career break. Contributing to this aim of helping women to transition back into work, 9-2-3 Jobs is delighted to help women returners at Deloitte - and has brought in Abbie Cooke as their guest speaker.
Abbie has been invited to inspire talented business women and get them ‘work ready’ following a career break to have children. Becoming a proud mum herself for the first time at almost 40, Abbie has learnt how to shift gear and step back into the world of work after having her daughter. Now firmly back in the saddle, she speaks about her life before motherhood and her previous work in financial services for Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte and Moore Stephens accountants as a marketing professional. She also describes her leadership role at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and her experience as an army reserve captain in the elite Media Operations Group. An engaging speaker, Abbie empowers women to embrace change, re-ignite self-belief and transition into a new arena of work-life-balance.
Abbie has founded a portfolio of business start-ups and holds an art history degree and an MSc in Entrepreneurship which led to her winning a British Female Innovator of the Year Award and UK Business School Student of the Year Award for CSR. Weaving together her professional services background, army authority, enterprise experience and creative talent, Abbie invites participation in her fun-fuelled Creativity Game Show.
Showcased at Deloitte, the Creativity Game Show is designed to get the creative juices flowing and to inspire confidence and a sense of purpose. It offers an excellent opportunity to re-connect with values and create a career vision. Abbie also encourages social responsibility in the community, exemplified by her determination to found the Gig-Arts Charity to help young people gain creative enterprise skills and give back to their local community.
Helen Wright, founder of 9-2-3 Jobs said: “The event at Deloitte is a really fantastic opportunity for Returners to step back into the corporate world for a few hours and learn more about opportunities on offer for those who have had career breaks – And it is absolutely brilliant that Abbie is here to motivate the Returners.”
Deloitte, London
Enjoying angel art in the care home community - A wonderful way to celebrate Christmas!
I had the great pleasure of going to the Royal Society of Public health conference this month. It is always interesting to discover news ways in which the Arts can benefit health and well-being across society.
Astonishing Autumn.
Cream of the crop creativity blooms at the 2017 Moreton Show.
London's Garrick Theatre hosts the west end premiere musical 'Gangsta Granny.'
The very fabulous Cornbury Festival.
A summer full of inspiring colour.
The Cav 'n Guards Clubs charity fundraiser for Dusty Yak supporting orphans in Nepal.
The Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurs in Oxford. Bono on stage with Michael Franti...Singing...Just Imagine.
On the carousel? Going round and round? Time to jump off?
February, the month of Valentine's love and heart-felt good will.
