About Creative Oxygen
Our Vision
Creative Oxygen™ tackles a problem most organisations can't see until it's expensive: burnout, attrition and disengagement in high-stakes environmants, from hospital wards to engineering teams.
When people are overwhelmed, creativity is the first thing to go. Problem solving and wellbeing follow close behind.
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Concerns get noticed late, or after the fact
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The best people leave without warning
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More staff go off with stress-related illness
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Fewer real issues get resolved
Organisations end up accidentally squeezing out the cognitive flexibility that good decisions depend on. You lose your sharpest thinkers, especially the quiet ones, and wellbeing becomes a PDF guide rather than a reality.
Why?
Your team is under pressure. And it's starting to show.
Every problem your people solve draws on creative energy. When that energy isn't replenished, communication breaks down and good ideas stop surfacing. In healthcare, that can become life or death. Everywhere else, it's expensive.
You can see it happening, but the usual wellbeing fixes don't work.
Problem solving is creativity. It's the engine your organisation runs on, and chronic pressure starves it. When it stalls, clarity, cohesion and the confidence to act decisively stall with it.
Hospitals use creative interventions to help patients recover. The staff delivering that care rarely get the same support, and neither do most teams working under pressure regardless of industry.
That's what Creative Oxygen™ is built to address.
We work directly with frontline and operational teams to restore the conditions for clear thinking, honest communication and real collaboration, wherever the pressure runs highest.
10% of UK workers feel engaged at work. (Gallup, 2023)
30% of NHS staff report feeling burnt out often or all the time. (NHS Staff Survey 2024, cited by the King's Fund.)
These are system failures, and they keep getting treated as personal problems.
Disengagement, fatigue and overwhelm are what happen when the conditions for clear thinking collapse under pressure.
Creative Oxygen™ works on the cause, not just the symptoms.
Our Services
The Creative Oximeter™
A diagnostic toolkit that measures the six conditions your team needs to think clearly and creatively under pressure.
It takes as little as 45 minutes, and tells you exactly where the system is breaking down, before it breaks your people.
Workshops and Experiences
Practical, structured sessions that target the specific constraints your team is working under. Tools your team can use to bring creative thinking back into the room.
Keynotes
Talks that reframe how your organisation thinks about burnout, disengagement, and decision-making under pressure.
Tailored to culture change programmes and conferences.
Arts and Cultural Experiences
For Hospitals
Live performances, hands-on creative workshops, and cultural events brought to you.
Timed to fit the busy schedule of healthcare workers.
For Staff Families
Access to the arts: performances, creative workshops and away days. From theatre and gallery visits, to learning a creative skill, this is for the households who are used to night shifts, missed dinners and cancelled plans.
For Organisations
Curated away days built around the arts. We design the programme around what your team needs most to ensure their experience is well worth leaving the office for.
Client Testimonials
What our clients say
Ali came and spoke to 44 of our members - senior executives/ highly experienced and diverse professionals. Ali was clear, honed in on what they needed, and adapted the content entirely around what they needed/asked questions about. She didn't just talk to slides - she engaged and worked with content in the chat and via audience questions. It was brilliant.
Lucy Standing
Founder Brave Starts
Her style is bold, refreshing, and deeply effective. Ali is the person who will help you show up in a way that feels right - without the fluff, without the cringe, and with a strategy that actually works. Highly recommended.
Stephan Zinzen
Founder Veeveo
People love to talk about 1% improvements or incremental growth… but working with Ali blew the roof off the business. She took a tiny seed of an idea and grew it into a creative vision far beyond what I could have imagined — crystal clear, bold, and better than my wildest hopes..
Polly Lavarello
Founder Elevate For Evergreen
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