helping you create meaningful and lasting change for yourself, for your team and for your organisation by unlocking the power of people.

At Curve we believe it’s an organisation’s people and their collective abilities and potential that have the power to truly transform it. We focus on facilitation, leadership and coaching as the three most effective ways to empower everyone to create change.

Our work with multinationals, start-ups, charities and NGOs across a range of sectors consistently helps people to take ownership of their challenges and ownership of the solutions. It results in leaders and teams that feel differently, think differently and make new choices that lead to measurable change and positive impact.

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"Curve believes that people and companies have the answers and solutions within them, and what Curve does well through its facilitation is to help people tap into them."

Shanna Wendt, VP Communications, Coca-Cola EuroPacific Partners
"Curve understands what responsible and effective leadership looks like in the 21st century and beyond. They give you tools and techniques that can be used again and again to fix organisational structure and bring people together to problem solve and co-create."

Jenny Varley, CEO FlinkWorks, Former Global Head of Communications, HSBC
"Curve’s alchemy of expertise and empathy is really special. The Curve team skilfully created a new chapter for the agency’s leadership that has set us up for future growth both as people and as a business."

Chris McCafferty, Group CEO, MSL UK
"Curve brought together a disparate group of people from across 13 different UNU institutes, and for the first time since the UNU was created, helped us create a single point of view about our role in the world and within the wider UN ecosystem."

Howard Hudson, Head of Communications, UNU
“Yesterday was one of the best full-day workshops I’ve ever participated in. The output was amazing. The technique that brought us to a great output was innovative, new and really well balanced. I was jet lagged but never tired. It was amazing to me that Curve managed to keep my energy, focus and engagement up for the entire day when I had slept only two hours. Fantastic.”

Ann Ystén, SoDA (Society of Digital Agencies) Board
"When the United University UNU-MERIT wanted to take stock, to consider if and how it should reinvent itself, our new director hired Curve. And most of us in the faculty were mildly to strongly doubtful. How could people that we didn’t even know come and talk to us via Zoom and get us to talk to each other to reinvent our institution? This seemed truly ridiculous. But magic happened! John and his team got us talking freely, handled many challenges and conflicting views to build a coherent and powerful vision."

Shyama Ramani, Professorial Fellow, United Nations University
‘Before the workshop I was a little hesitant and, if I’m honest, a bit worried. Research informs us of the importance of the alignment of employee and organisational values. As a HR practitioner and PhD researcher (in authenticity at work) this is vitally important, otherwise we risk disengagement and loss of some of our fantastic colleagues. I left the workshop feeling confident that those involved had been listened to and that the values really do reflect the people at MTC and what’s important to us.’

Helen Johnson, Maufacturing Technology Centre
"The most valuable thing I got out of the team coaching was an almost instant bond with my colleagues on the leadership team. I now feel like I see them as people with similar struggles to me at work. You come in and you see these people that you admire, that you're going to be working alongside, and you think ‘oh they're infallible’ or ‘they have it all figured out’. Coaching really levels the playing field. I felt much more comfortable coming in as a new team member and speaking out about things I think we should address. It showed me that others are struggling with the same thing, which validated what I wanted to work on and gave me the permission to go forward with that"

Autumn Walsh, Accenture
"Lizzie was fantastic and highly recommended if you want a thoughtful and intelligent speaker who can really connect with your audience. We loved having her with us!"

Tom Beck, Executive Director, SODA
"In a short amount of time, Curve’s Next Generation Leaders Programme transformed our Senior Leadership Team from a collection of brilliant individuals to a unified and highly collaborative force to be reckoned with. They had the skills and ambition, the Curve training gave them shared confidence and an all-important support network within their group"

Kathleen Enright, Global Managing Director, Salter Baxter
"This is the best training course I have ever done whilst at MO. It was insightful, fun, engaging and I really feel I have some tangible skills to take away and learn/introduce to make me a better leadership & support my team with."

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"The simplicity of the information and the way it was presented – with energy and openness – allowed people to feel comfortable to ask questions and explore topics."

Laura Beach, Head of People, Stonehaven
“A lovely balance of classic frameworks and novel techniques. The bodywork and mindfulness exercises were great and really helped break up the day. The walk-and-talk was remarkable.”

Mike Dobell, SoDA (Society of Digital Agencies) Board

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Our on-demand, self-paced training course, Facilitating Workshops Online. Curve Co-Founder Lizzie Shupak takes you through thirteen chapters covering planning and preparation, designing agendas and exercises, managing energy levels and challenging behaviour, what makes a good facilitator and a host of practical tips and tools for running brilliant workshops online.

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Download free resources from our famous workshop planning canvas, through to peer coaching exercises, to doing your bit for the planet.

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Closer Apart,
the book

Closer Apart guides you through each stage of an online workshop, from planning through to follow-up. Learn how to make friends with remote technology, manage those all important energy levels, and create the human connection that’s vital for collaboration.

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praise for our book CLOSER APART

“The way we work has changed dramatically, and with that change comes
the need for new skills. CLOSER APART bridges
the gaps many of us now face as we adjust to new ways of working.”

Gethin Nadin, MBPsS, award-winning psychologist and bestselling HR author

“This is my new bible for facilitating online workshops and will forever be to-hand on my desk.”

Paola De Marchi, Director of Learning and Development, Publicis Groupe

“CLOSER APART is the definitional guide this
space sorely needs. It’s comprehensive, witty and bursting with the kinds of everyday hacks that I’m after. Most importantly, as with everything Lizzie and John do, there is a fiercely human, holistic perspective that shoots through its every pore.”

Jack Fryer, Managing Director, The Square @ Universal Music

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helping you create meaningful and lasting change for yourself, for your team and for your organisation by unlocking the power of people.

Looking back to move forward

people we work with

"Curve believes that people and companies have the answers and solutions within them, and what Curve does well through its facilitation is to help people tap into them."

"Curve understands what responsible and effective leadership looks like in the 21st century and beyond. They give you tools and techniques that can be used again and again to fix organisational structure and bring people together to problem solve and co-create."

"Curve’s alchemy of expertise and empathy is really special. The Curve team skilfully created a new chapter for the agency’s leadership that has set us up for future growth both as people and as a business."

"Curve brought together a disparate group of people from across 13 different UNU institutes, and for the first time since the UNU was created, helped us create a single point of view about our role in the world and within the wider UN ecosystem."

"Lizzie was fantastic and highly recommended if you want a thoughtful and intelligent speaker who can really connect with your audience. We loved having her with us!"

"This is the best training course I have ever done whilst at MO. It was insightful, fun, engaging and I really feel I have some tangible skills to take away and learn/introduce to make me a better leadership & support my team with."

"The simplicity of the information and the way it was presented – with energy and openness – allowed people to feel comfortable to ask questions and explore topics."

“A lovely balance of classic frameworks and novel techniques. The bodywork and mindfulness exercises were great and really helped break up the day. The walk-and-talk was remarkable.”