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Korrine Sky.
Decoding culture, influence and strategy.

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55K+

Total followers

Across all platforms

1M+

LinkedIn impressions

Rolling 60 days

300+

Entrepreneurs supported

Strategy and storytelling

Top 10

UK brand strategist

Favikon, 2025

Media bio

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Two approved versions. Please keep the SMADE Group distinction intact: the company has 22 years of history, Korrine has been CEO since 2025.

Korrine Sky gets artists onto the right stages and gets brands taken seriously in culture. She is a talent agent and entertainment executive, a cultural brand strategist, and CEO of SMADE Group, a live entertainment company with 22 years of operating history.

She represents artists, comedians, broadcasters and founders, routes UK and international tours, and books festival and arena stages. Through Culture & Commerce she builds the strategy behind brands and leaders who need credibility as well as reach, using her Clarity to Connection framework. She is a former Editor-at-Large at The Southern African Times.

In 2022 she mobilised communities to raise over £300,000 and support the evacuation of more than 2,000 African students from the war in Ukraine, briefing the United Nations and speaking at UN Headquarters in New York. She was named one of the Global Top 100 Most Influential People of African Descent in 2023 and a Top 10 UK brand strategist by Favikon in 2025.

Her work has appeared on BBC World News, ELLE, Global Citizen, Sky News, Marie Claire and The Voice, and has been cited by the United Nations, the Brookings Institution and the UK House of Commons. She hosts the podcast Mom, Can You Not?, co-presents TIRIPANZE on Radio2Funky, and created the Black Joy Archive. Zimbabwean and British.

Speaking and media topics

What to book her on.

Brand and influence

  • Cultural brand strategy that holds up

    A test for whether your brand is credible with the community you are speaking to, and what to fix first.

    From brand strategy work with founders, artists and organisations.

  • Storytelling as soft power

    How narrative moves money, policy and permission, with examples the room can copy.

    From years of editorial work and campaign narrative as a former Editor-at-Large.

  • Why trust compounds and reach expires

    A way to value trust as an asset and stop paying for attention that does not convert.

    From building audiences and reputations on both the talent and brand side.

Live culture and the music business

  • How a UK tour is actually costed

    The real numbers behind routing, guarantees and risk, so nobody signs blind.

    From agenting and routing UK and international runs.

  • The agent's role in a career

    What representation should deliver, and how to tell a good deal from a loud one.

    From representing artists, comedians and broadcasters.

  • The operations behind a cultural moment

    What has to be true backstage for a festival or arena show to land.

    From leading a live entertainment company with 22 years of history.

The African creative economy

  • Where value leaks out of the diaspora supply chain

    The specific points where money and rights leave the chain, and who could hold them.

    From operating across UK and African markets as an entertainment executive.

  • Culture as economic and diplomatic infrastructure

    The case for funding culture as infrastructure, in terms a board or ministry accepts.

    From planning cultural diplomatic missions across the continent.

  • What investors keep getting wrong about African talent

    Where the returns actually sit, and the assumptions that keep costing money.

    From booking, routing and selling African talent internationally.

Identity, leadership and representation

  • Black identity, visibility and the business of belonging

    How belonging is packaged and sold, and how to engage with it without being used by it.

    From cultural criticism and brand work across diaspora audiences.

  • Women, authority and holding the room

    Language for negotiating and holding authority without shrinking or performing.

    From leading a company and building rooms in industries that resist handing power over.

  • Building in public after displacement

    Leading and communicating under pressure when people, not metrics, are at stake.

    From coordinating evacuation from Ukraine and briefing the United Nations.

Education and frameworks

  • Clarity to Connection, taught live

    Every attendee leaves with their own positioning written and one dated next step.

    The framework used across her strategy practice.

  • Frameworks for ethical brand strategy

    A method for entering culture without extracting from it, with the guardrails included.

    From advising brands entering communities they did not come from.

  • Marketing and misogyny

    How campaigns encode assumptions about women, and how to catch it before launch.

    From campaign work and cultural criticism published across the diaspora press.

Culture-first branding: why 80% of success lives in your story

Soft power storytelling: turning trust into traction

Platform reach

Audience, updated May 2025.

Figures are refreshed at each quarter. Ask for a current export if you need it for a deck.

LinkedIn

  • 10K followers
  • 1M+ impressions, 60 days
  • 11.2% engagement
  • 149K average views

Instagram

  • 13.2K followers
  • 0.6% engagement
  • 65 average likes, 30 days
  • Fashion and culture

TikTok

  • 31.3K followers
  • 779K likes
  • 1.6% engagement
  • 68% female, 25 to 34

YouTube

  • 2.2K subscribers
  • 10.1K views, 28 days
  • 3.2K hours watched
  • 61% returning

Top locations

United States, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, South Africa

Demographics

65% female, 35% male. 68% aged 25 to 34

Top interests

Branding, culture, entrepreneurship, advocacy, storytelling

Stages and platforms

BBC
ITV
Channel 5
University of Cambridge
York University
Howard University
University of Liverpool
University of East Anglia
Northumbria University
University of Leicester
Masters of Scale
NatWest logo
The Executive Branch
Influential Women
Made in ZWE

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Roles and titles

How to credit her.

CEO

SMADE Group, live entertainment, 22 years of history

Founder

Culture & Commerce

Talent agent

Artists, comedians, broadcasters and founders

Former Editor-at-Large

The Southern African Times

Host

Mom, Can You Not? podcast

Creator

The Black Joy Archive

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Korrine Sky studio portrait

Studio portrait, colour

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Korrine Sky editorial portrait

Editorial portrait

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Korrine Sky on a panel

On stage, panel

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Korrine Sky at the United Nations

United Nations, New York

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Endorsements

On the record.

I'm proud to see Black women like Korrine Sky leading the way.
Amb. Linda Thomas-GreenfieldUS Ambassador to the United Nations
Her work has changed lives in Leicester and beyond.
Claudia Webbe MPUK Parliament
Since working with Korrine I've gained razor-sharp clarity on my brand and positioning. That focus transformed my offer, my messaging and the way I show up in the world.
Ruth KudzaiFounder, The Executive Branch

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