founder · educator · creative · author · advocate
Emma-Jane Taylor is a British entrepreneur, professional dancer, choreographer, fitness and wellbeing expert, author and child safeguarding advocate, with a career spanning more than three decades.
Founder of StageWorks Performing Arts School and NutritiousWorks both established in 2000, and creator of DiscoShuffle™, Emma-Jane has built a career around movement, creativity, education and empowering people to discover their potential.
Alongside her professional work, she founded the registered charity Project 90-10 and the NotMyShame campaign, using her voice and experience to challenge attitudes, confront uncomfortable truths and campaign for better protection for children.
Her work reflects a lifetime of experience, determination and leadership, underpinned by a belief that meaningful change requires courage, accountability and a willingness to challenge what others would rather avoid.
Shaped by Experience
Challenging Conversations. Creating Change
Performing Arts, Fitness, Wellbeing
As a professional dancer, choreographer, fitness and wellbeing expert, Emma-Jane brings more than 30 years of experience, creativity and energy to her work.
Dance has been part of her life since childhood, providing not only a professional pathway but also freedom, confidence and a sense of belonging.
Throughout her career, she has coached,
As a professional dancer, choreographer, fitness and wellbeing expert, Emma-Jane brings more than 30 years of experience, creativity and energy to her work.
Dance has been part of her life since childhood, providing not only a professional pathway but also freedom, confidence and a sense of belonging.
Throughout her career, she has coached, educated and mentored people of all ages, from young performers finding their confidence to adults rediscovering their potential.
Her personal experiences have shaped her professional outlook, strengthened her determination and influenced the way she leads, teaches and advocates for others.
For Emma-Jane, experience is not simply about what life has taught her, but what she chooses to do with that knowledge.
Performing Arts, Fitness, Wellbeing
Challenging Conversations. Creating Change
Performing Arts, Fitness, Wellbeing
With more than three decades of professional experience, Emma-Jane has established herself across performing arts, dance, fitness, wellbeing and personal development.
In 2000, she founded StageWorks Performing Arts School, which has spent 26 years nurturing young performers, building confidence and creating opportunities for children acros
With more than three decades of professional experience, Emma-Jane has established herself across performing arts, dance, fitness, wellbeing and personal development.
In 2000, she founded StageWorks Performing Arts School, which has spent 26 years nurturing young performers, building confidence and creating opportunities for children across the Thames Valley.
Her work with adults includes NutritiousWorks, bringing people together through dance, fitness and wellbeing, alongside DiscoShuffle™, her innovative tap-based fitness programme — Fitness You Can Tap To!
A specialist in tap dance, Emma-Jane has choreographed numerous theatre productions and taught at London's iconic Pineapple Dance Studios.
Across her businesses, her commitment remains consistent: high professional standards, safe and supportive environments, creativity, confidence and the belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to achieve their potential.
Challenging Conversations. Creating Change
Challenging Conversations. Creating Change
Challenging Conversations. Creating Change
Emma-Jane is recognised for her advocacy for survivors of childhood sexual abuse and her determination to challenge the silence, stigma and misconceptions that continue to surround it.
Her campaigning is informed by lived experience, professional knowledge and a willingness to confront conversations that others may find uncomfortable.
As fo
Emma-Jane is recognised for her advocacy for survivors of childhood sexual abuse and her determination to challenge the silence, stigma and misconceptions that continue to surround it.
Her campaigning is informed by lived experience, professional knowledge and a willingness to confront conversations that others may find uncomfortable.
As founder of the registered charity Project 90-10 and the NotMyShame campaign, she works to raise awareness, improve safeguarding education and challenge the attitudes and systems that continue to leave children vulnerable.
She is particularly passionate about moving conversations beyond awareness and towards prevention, accountability and meaningful change.
Emma-Jane believes safeguarding must be about more than policies, procedures and assumptions. It requires education, vigilance, informed decision-making and the courage to question behaviours, regardless of status or reputation.
Her approach is direct, sometimes challenging and unapologetically focused on protecting children.
Children first. Always.
a respected figure whose words resonate deeply
Emma-Jane's personal journey through childhood trauma has shaped her determination to challenge difficult conversations, raise awareness and create meaningful change. As an experienced public speaker, author and advocate, she brings together lived experience and professional knowledge, speaking openly about childhood sexual abuse, its lifelong impact and the importance of education, prevention and safeguarding.
Her first book, Don't Hold Back, published in 2017, marked an important chapter in her journey, sharing experiences that had remained unspoken for many years. Through her writing, public speaking, media contributions and campaigning, she continues to challenge silence, question accepted attitudes and encourage conversations that society has too often avoided.
Her second book, planned for publication in 2027, will explore these conversations further, drawing on lived experience, professional perspectives and the voices of others who have contributed to her journey. For Emma-Jane, sharing her story has never been solely about the past. It is about using what she has learned to influence the future.
Author, Speaker & Advocate
Whether through performing arts, fitness, education, writing or campaigning, Emma-Jane's work is driven by a commitment to helping people find their confidence, challenge limitations and create meaningful change. From the dance studio to the public stage, from working with children to challenging the systems responsible for their protection, her determination remains the same.
CHALLENGING CONVERSATIONS. CREATING CHANGE. LIFTING WEIGHTS AND DANCING THROUGH LIFE.
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