A business consultancy for those in the arts and creative industries.
SERVICES
It starts with your next idea, your talent and your grit. But what next? It is my belief that as a creative entrepreneur, founder or leader, having clarity of vision and of purpose will lead to clarity of action.
I work with creative entrepreneurs to carve out creative and commercial strategies across all areas of the business, brand or enterprise. Working on a project basis, I take a bespoke approach to each client. A self proclaimed optimist, every interaction with me offers ideas, energy and insight.
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Working with clients to develop a comprehensive guide and action plan for the next chapter of the business. This looks at vision, values, what’s for sale, the market place, customers, sales strategy, finances and operations.
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Advising on a specific topic, opportunity or challenge. I work with clients on a range of topics across the creative and the commercial. This includes, but is not limited to, sales strategy, finances, building a team, leadership, competitor analysis, business plan reviews.
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Many clients opt for a ‘little and often’ approach, a thought partner. This advice is focused momentum and accountability. We work with the needs of the business or practice to execute the plan or vision for the future. Many clients work quarterly or monthly.
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I take on a variety of speaking opportunities whether live interviews, panel host or as part of a panel. I also take writing commissions relating to the concept and practicalities of being a creative entrepreneur.
SELECTED CLIENTS
Curation
Design
Fashion & Jewellery
Fine Art
Fine Craft
Interiors & Gardens
Palefire
Plum & Ashby
Rachel Entwistle
Scribble & Daub
Sophie Breitmeyer
Straw London
Studio Faeger
Studio George
Studio Peake
Tabi Jackson Gee
Twig Hutchinson
Ben Prescott Design
Camilla Wordie
Emilie Pugh
Emily Ponsonby
Foster & Gane
Hum London
If Only If
Kitten Grayson
Jess Wheeler
Life Of Ease
Lottie Delamain
Nancy Nicholson
PODCAST
UP WITH THE LARK AND
British Pasture Leather || Material Perception
A love letter to leather - its beauty, its craft, its supply, its value - with Sara Grady and Alice Robinson, founders of British Pasture Leather.
Curiosity about the supply chain is always to be applauded. Whether we are buying a jumper, a car or a three course meal, it is good and right to consider where things have come from. However, even in this highly connected world, we are too often divorced from the truth about production, And with the best will in the world, it is all too easy to allow our passions and expertise to fall into silos. Sometimes we forget to join the dots. And that is to our detriment.
So in this episode, I am delighted to be able to meet two talented and determined souls who are doing just that. Alice Robinson and Sara Grady are the co-founders of British Pasture Leather. They offer a new model for leather production and work to redefine leather as it truly is: an agricultural product shaped by land stewardship.
We are going to explore assumptions made about leather, the narrative that they are working to change, setting the course for a vision and the nitty gritty of following it through, what success looks like when you are working on change and not just profit, a fantastic recent project with Mulberry and what the future holds.
ABOUT
Up With The Lark
Up With The Lark was launched in 2015 by Calandre Orton. It is a business consultancy for those in the arts and creative industries. Up With The Lark clients want to be encouraged and challenged to start, refine, grow or elevate their creative businesses or careers. Calandre works with founders, entrepreneurs and brands to propel creative talent forwards, develop profitable business models and celebrate the successful marriage of creativity and commerce.
It is Calandre’s belief that the key to running a successful creative business is clarity. Whether in her capacity as a consultant focused on strategy or a mentor working on mindset, Calandre’s goal is always clarity of vision, purpose and action.
Calandre has always worked where the creative meets the commercial - as an art and media lawyer, a studio manager, a commercial director and a business consultant. And so, as a consultant, Calandre provides invested but objective observations, pithy insights and expert advice. A self proclaimed optimist, every interaction with Calandre offers ideas, energy and insight. Up With The Lark is not about a ‘one size fits all’ approach. Instead the focus is on each client’s specific talents and industry, aspirations and version of success.
