Portfolio
These highlights show how ZLH builds capacity across diverse settings, from individual professionals and entrepreneurs, to established businesses, to public and social organisations shaping enabling environments for development across the Caribbean and internationally. The projects below illustrate how strategy, learning, and delivery come together in practice.
Career and Business Coaching
ZLH works with professionals at turning points. When a senior engineer felt they had achieved everything on paper but knew they wanted more, we mapped the move from senior employment into entrepreneurship and built the structure to make it real. When a geologist wanted to transition into HR community management without losing her environmental trajectory, we planned the shift carefully and positioned her for advanced study in sustainable development. When a tech marketer decided to pursue her career in poetry full time, we navigate the pivot into the creative industries and strengthen competitive graduate applications. When a political science graduate wanted to relocate and build an international development career, we bridged the gap between academia and meaningful work abroad. The work is practical and hands-on. It is about asking the right questions, tightening strategy, managing risk, and helping clients move through big life decisions with clarity and direction rather than guesswork.
Business Management Consulting
ZLH Strategic Growth Programme (2025)
Client: Touchstone Productions
ZLH supported Touchstone Productions, an event ticketing and access management company serving corporate and entertainment markets, to prepare for its next phase of growth. The engagement focused on clarifying strategy, strengthening market positioning, and building organisational readiness for expansion and financing. Within just one month of the programme, Touchstone submitted a major regional grant application. The engagement resulted in an integrated strategic, business, and operations planning framework with a 12-month execution roadmap. Touchstone has since engaged ZLH for ongoing strategic management support.
Professionalisation of Theatre Workshop Series (2025)
Client: ARich Culture × Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts (Bahamas)
ZLH was engaged by ARich Culture to design and facilitate the final workshop in a professionalisation series for theatre practitioners. The session focused on strategic business planning for funding readiness, supporting practitioners to translate creative practice into viable, fundable initiatives. This engagement reflects ZLH’s crossover work between business strategy and programme development in the creative economy.
Funding Readiness, Grant & Proposal Development
ZLH supports businesses and organisations to design fundable initiatives and prepare competitive proposals under international funding programmes, as part of broader growth strategy and programme delivery. This work builds on structured planning and positioning, rather than standalone proposal writing. Proposals supported through this work have demonstrated a 90% success rate to date.
Recent examples include:
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2 Regional entrepreneurship and incubator programmes (2023)
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2 Market access platforms, social infrastructure, and business exchange initiatives (2024–2025)
Development Consulting
Africa in Transition Conference & Trade Show (2025)
Client: Africa Caribbean Centre for Development (ACCD)
ZLH led regional stakeholder mobilisation for the Africa in Transition Conference & Trade Show, activating outreach across approximately 200 organisational stakeholders spanning tourism, logistics, transport, manufacturing, finance, MSME support, technology, creative industries, and higher education. Engagement targeted middle managers, senior leaders, and executives, strengthening ACCD’s regional visibility and establishing a partnership pipeline for future iterations. ZLH also supported diaspora professionals to attend the conference in Ghana.
Maroons of Jamaica Symposium (January 2025)
Client: The University of the West Indies & CARICOM Secretariat
Transcultura Programme (2022–2023)
Client: UNESCO - European Union
The Transcultura Programme is a €15M EU-funded regional initiative supporting creative economy development across the Caribbean and Europe. ZLH served as a technical consultant, providing both technical and managerial support across programme design and delivery, partnership development, research, budgeting, procurement, and monitoring and evaluation. ZLH also led concept development and delivery for a regional virtual convening for animation and video-game stakeholders (250+ registrants; 100+ participants).
UNESCO-EU Transcultura Programme wins UN Sids Partnerships Awards 2024. UNESCO.org. (n.d.). https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-eu-transcultura-programme-wins-un-sids-partnerships-awards-2024
Kingston Culture Forum (2021)
Client: Kingston Creative
ZLH developed and managed Kingston Creative’s first Kingston Culture Forum, convening 59 participants from 47 local, regional, and international organisations and engaging 462+ attendees, with a 90% approval rating. ZLH also led stakeholder engagement and resource mobilisation, strengthening partnerships across the cultural and creative industries ecosystem.
Research & Publications
ZLH’s consulting practice is grounded in applied research, informing programme design, strategy, and technical leadership across engagements with academic institutions, policy bodies, and development partners.
Education Reform in the Caribbean Community (2021)
Education Planning Journal (International Society for Education Planning)
Published in the Education Planning Journal, the peer-reviewed academic journal of the International Society for Education Planning, the research delves into the lasting impact of colonial rule on the English-speaking Caribbean. The study highlights the ongoing challenges of achieving true independence and equality in the region, despite substantial nation-building efforts. By conducting focus groups with upper sixth form students in Kingston, Jamaica, the research explores how students’ perspectives can shape public education in the Caribbean. The study finds that though students view identity, industry, and citizenship as fundamental goals of Caribbean education, they see standardised testing as a challenge to these objectives. The research recommends integrating these themes into education through progressive curricula, teaching methods, and assessments.