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Growing robust, healthy & sustainable creative humans Our motto is 'you don't have to be an artist to be creative'!

Open To Create... is a social enterprise offering Festivals, Creative Career Coaching, Entrepreneur Training and Team Away Days for individuals, organisations and communities. Contact us to see how we can collaborate with you to build your confidence, creativity and community. Our founder and director, Anna B Sexton, is an artist, educator and qualified coach.

31/12/2025

CREATED BIGGER BOLDER IN 2025...

All underpinned by creative coaching

Everything I do is led by knowing every founder, team member and community leader is creative

And that coaching is the life blood of leading with humanity, heart and soul

Any founder who is floundering can flourish with coaching made bespoke to fit their access, inclusion and real world needs

LESS THEORY MORE LEANING INTO REAL HUMAN TO HUMAN CONNECTIONS

From here anything is possible

Anna

Creative founder Coach | Regenerative Entrepreneur | Travel Business Mentor | DOHE GSCA Global Start Up Coach 1st Prize Winner 2024

Helping purpose-driven professionals grow freedom-first business ecosystems

03/10/2025

SO CURIOUS, EXCITED AND OPEN to learn and grow via my Masters in Business - MTU TU Rise Masters by Research scholarship

I went to uni in 1994 - 1997 for my BA Hons Fine Art

Did attempt to do an MBA during the autumn of 2020 but juggling this and a full time job, and freelance work but my mental health wasn't in a good place to do so much from home and online so to win such a prestigious opportunity to have a 2 year chance to complete a Mastrers in Business

Looking forward to sharing over the coming years when I can

Funding Acknowledgement

MTU TU RISE Master by Research scholarship funding is co-financed by the Government of Ireland and the European Union through the ERDF Southern, Eastern & Midland Regional Programme 2021-27 and the Northern & Western Regional Programme 2021-27

30/09/2025

JOY OF SELF DISCOVERY...

Next episode of Everyday Creativity podcast is out

LISTEN https://bit.ly/EDCPodcastJoyChukwuma

And its a delight to have had the chance to connect with Joy Chukwuma

A multi potentialite

Biotechnology student

BBC featured student voice

Co-creation intern

Purpose coalition Ambassador

Podcaster

Passionate about represention & growth

A TRUE EXAMPLE OF BEING OPEN TO CREATE every single day

TELL US WHAT YOU GAIN FROM LISTENING

14/04/2025

BE AN OPEN BOOK...

I'm such a learner through doing, talking things through and fail forwards as I figure things out

Yes I'm dyslexic which gives me lots of advantages but also, although I do read ok, I'm very prone to running at tasks to get out of the anxiety of not knowing and how much I judge myself for that...

SO being able to mentor others to find their ways into learning more beyond textbooks is a dream for me

My role within the as part of the team of Business Consultancy Mentors enables final year students in business degrees to live out real world business

- problem solving within in teams

- offer practical solutions to clients in their businesses to tackle real time, relevant challenges

- build confidence to put into practice 3 years of business acumen built up through learning models and best practices from the business world

IF YOU KNOW ME I LOVE A MODEL...

But only when it works in the real world 🌎

Talk to me about how I can empower you and your team or cohort of students to get real in the world of business and entrepreneurship and thrive...

10/04/2025

INSPIRE THE WORLD...

It's all about how much you've given at the end of the day

We can know the depth of our own skills, knowledge and expertise through the giving if it forward

Being a Business Consultancy mentor with these 2 amazing humans

Grace Cameron
Eklant Kaja-Cuedajri
+ Maysha Hussain [not in the picture]

Has been such a joy - being alongside them to grow their confidence working with a business founder in the Liverpool City Region

And watch them shine - they have built on their existing team successes during their 3 year business degree

And gone from strength to strength much to do with their incredible ability to self reflect, seek creative solutions and always be open to listening and learning

Well done team GEM and your client

Honestly what a fab way to pay it forward, to inspire the current generations of business and civic leders and keep growing myself

Great to be able to be such an active player in the staff community whilst being alumni

08/04/2025

PROUD POST...

Thanks for your article celebrating how coaching Founders supports success in Edtech statt up to scale up growth

EXTRACT

"Sexton, who is also the founder of creative coaching agency Open to Create, was recently announced as the winner of the first ever EdTech Startup Coach Awards, run by the edtech startup accelerator DOHE. As part of its 24-week accelerator programme, DOHE pairs startups with coaches to identify their key objectives with the goal of achieving them by the end of the programme.

A startup coach is an experienced business professional with extensive knowledge of startups who guides founders in growing their company...."

The article celebrates @ EdtechHub

Written by Sarah Drumm you can read the article via

https://sifted.eu/articles/coaching-founders-brnd?utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=branded-content&utm_content=siftedaccounts

07/04/2025

FOUNDERS COME TO
THEIR CRAFT at different times
and different ages...

What age did you know you'd make your creative idea into a business?

What did you need to walk through to realise you wanted more than what you'd been told was for you?

Picture from Get Lost Artist unguided walk in King's Cross on this day April 2017...

Walking being a key tool for me as a Founder to discover new ideas, unravel knotted thinking and just see life at a different pace away from the screen...

18/03/2025

NEWNESS in time for Spring...

Open To Create 》》》

We coach Founders Powering Collective Change 》》》

It's fun to change things up, pivot how we think about why we do what we do

Who we work with and for

And what we do that makes the award winning global start up coaching led social business

More to come...

05/02/2025

NEW DAY
NEW CREATIVE MOJO
COACHING
CLIENT...

excitedly getting the rainbow 🌈 pencil case out for a new client bossing their in

02/01/2025

"Without imagination, where are we?”

—Sir Quentin Blake

16/12/2024

CREATIVE TEAM
WORK...

putting together a creative team away day takes a team with a creative vision to build on what is currently there in the team and grow forward together

most planners are looking for

- roi - making the most of time, people, money investment whilst embedding

- inclusive codesign to address strategic aims and objectives

- fun, but not to cringe elements

- decent, accessible venue/s [multi sites do work with the right planning and budget]

- lots of breaks

- yummy catering that really does cater to each team members needs
- facilitators and speakers or other guests to build out the day that are connecting, relevant and can reach out and inspire each team member and land the overall aims and objectives on time, to brief and budget

WHILST

- being memorable, and impactful...

Pictures from team away for London South Bank University enterprise and innovation teams

12/12/2024

CONNECTIVITY
THROUGH
CREATIVITY
unplugged hosting a card making workshop as part of their festive sale on today until 4pm

Such a chill way to spend some of my lunch break

Supporting

Address

The Clarence Centre, 6 St. Georges Circus
London
SE16FE

Telephone

07941 655 856

Website

http://www.opentocreate.com/

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