Isabella Sharp is a corporate communications and public affairs director with twenty-five years’ experience in public affairs, communications, brand and corporate profile across sectors including the charity sector, education, the arts, tech and health.

Isabella’s experience includes leading Southbank Centre’s corporate communications and public affairs, during which time she worked with the GLA and Lambeth around the redevelopment of the Hayward Gallery and Queen Elizabeth Hall and other elements of artistic placemaking in the South Bank BID area.

She has worked as Head of Communications for a national education group - the Girls’ Day School Trust; with Meta and HSBC as Corporate Reputation Director at Edelman; and with Pioneering Places Creative Folkestone to build buy in and advocates for creative placemaking in Kent, as part of her role as Deputy Managing Director of Whitehouse Communications. Isabella has led the roll out of the Alleyn’s School brand building traction nationally and
internationally and facilitating and overseeing the brand, comms and marketing around the launch of three new Alleyn’s schools in London. Isabella is a Trustee of the London Vocational Ballet School.