Didi is an actor, director, voice-over artist and lecturer with over 20 years of experience as an international business trainer and coach. She is the UK’s leading expert in the theatre tradition of Commedia dell’Arte and worked with Richard Bean on his hit plays, One Man, Two Guvnors (in the West End) and The Hypocrite (at the RSC). Didi directed The Life I Lead, starring Miles Jupp, which played at the West End in London. She was recently Movement Director for Eddie Izzard’s one-person show, Great Expectations (which played in New York and in the West End) as well as for Eddie Izzard’s Hamlet.
As a trainer and coach for major businesses in the UK, USA and Europe, Didi’s specialism is in women’s leadership. She has run leadership master classes for women at INSEAD and CEDEP, is a keynote speaker, and contributes to the MBA and the “Women as Leaders” programme at Cranfield University.
As a Senior Associate of Dramatic Resources, Didi leads programmes at institutions including IMD, INSEAD, CEDEP, University of Zurich & St Gallen. She also regularly delivers on both Cisco’s and Accenture’s international women’s leadership programmes, and delivers training in French for Adecco’s ground-breaking Service Excellence Programme.