Lorna Holder - How successful leaders reinvent themselves
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Nottingham Business School’s Business Leaders’ Podcast
Lorna Holder – How successful leaders reinvent themselves
Episode 43
Introduction…
• Lorna Holder is the Managing Director of the Full-Spectrum and Tuareg Productions companies.
• She was born in Jamaica, raised in Nottingham, and became the first black fashion graduate of Nottingham Trent University in 1975
• Lorna started her career as a designer with Birmingham-based House of Lerose – and in the 1980s, was made Head of Fashion at dressmaker Davies & Fields.
• In 2002 she was Executive Producer of the inaugural Black Film and Television Awards.
• She has delivered six Heritage Lottery Fund productions, based on research and oral histories of Caribbean people and other communities in Britain.
• Her productions have included collaborations with the V&A, British Museum, Rich Mix, BFI, Theatre Royal Nottingham and London Metropolitan Archives.
• Lorna’s book, 'Style in My DNA,' chronicles 70 years of British Caribbean fashion.
• Lorna has been a member of the Board of Governors at Nottingham Trent University for more than six years.
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