About Stitch Your Parachute

Stitch Your Parachute is a social enterprise dedicated to building personal and organisational resilience, and was founded in 2019 by Carmel Cardona. Carmel delivers training and 1:1 coaching in resilience, leadership, and professional wellbeing. She provides strategic consultancy to organisations, conducting evaluation reports, research and facilitation. Stitch Your Parachute primarily works with the cultural, creative and social impact sectors. Carmel brings knowledge from two decades in senior leadership in the cultural sector to this work, as well as training from the LSE and the NeuroLeadership Institute. She is currently a PhD researcher at King’s College London in the Global Health and Social Medicine department, conducting research into quality of life in cancer survivorship.

For a more in-depth introduction to Stitch Your Parachute read about Our Story, where we also define resilience, and give you a sneak peek of what’s next.

Carmel is also a founding associate of The Leadership Collective.

Contact form

Hello. I’d love to hear from you, and find out more about how Stitch Your Parachute can help you or your organisation. Please send me a note through this form and I will be in touch.

Contact details

Carmel Cardona
Director | Founder
Stitch Your Parachute
London, UK
E: carmel@stitchyourparachute.com

Credits

CC&A design by Emily Kerr
Illustrations by Sharon Armstrong and Lucy Lorimer
Photography by Tanai Cardona, Cynthia Sciberras
Additional photography by Annie Spratt, Danielle Macinnes,
Jo Szczepanska, Sigmund and You X Ventures on Unsplash

Clients

I take pride in the results I bring to my clients, both organisations (through my consultancy and resilience training) and individuals (through coaching and training programmes). Here are some of the organisations I’m working with at the moment, or have worked with recently. Get in touch if you’d like any client feedback.