Meet Jagreet
Jagreet Dhadli
Founder & Creative Director, Himmat Media
Leicester, United Kingdom 🇬🇧 · Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦
Jagreet Dhadli is the founder and creative director of Himmat Media, a cultural strategy, branding, and consulting studio working across Canada and the United Kingdom.
Over the past decade, every role offered a different perspective on the same question. Across festivals, healthcare, education, fundraising, and community organisations, Jagreet repeatedly encountered the same challenge: organisations doing meaningful work often lacked the time, language, or internal capacity to articulate who they were, communicate their value, and build sustainably without losing sight of what made them matter. Himmat Media emerged in response to that gap.
Rather than approaching organisations from the outside, Jagreet's practice begins from within. Years spent working alongside communities, founders, artists, educators, healthcare professionals, and nonprofit leaders shaped an approach rooted in participation before prescription. Guided by accessibility and equity, and shaped through the mentorship of Carla Chambers-Jefferys and Anita Lal, she brings together strategy, design, storytelling, and community building to help organisations uncover what already makes them distinctive and build confidently toward the future.
Himmat Media grew from HIMMAT: Celebrating the Women Around Us, a community storytelling exhibit co-produced with Roohi Sahajpal in Vancouver in 2019. What began as an act of remembrance became a broader creative practice dedicated to preserving identity while building the structures that help meaningful work endure.
Every role offered a different perspective on the same question: how do organisations doing meaningful work build the clarity, capacity, and confidence to grow without losing sight of who they are?
Selected Impact
10+
Years of cross-sector experience
50%+
Average newsletter open rates
700%
Campaign engagement growth
Selected Experience
Brand Strategy & Identity
Organisational Strategy
Fundraising & Partnerships
Marketing & Communications
Festival Production & Operations
Community Engagement & Program Design
Digital Experiences
Editorial, Storytelling & Content
SPecialist Experience
Anti-racism education and equity initiatives
Arts and cultural administration
Community partnership development
Youth engagement and storytelling programs
Intersectional policy and program design
Festival and event operations
Cross-sector collaboration and systems thinking
Areas of Practice
Every project is different, but the work often lives at the intersection of strategy, story, design, and community.
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Strategy
Building clarity before action through brand strategy, positioning, audience research, fundraising strategy, organisational planning, and communications.
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Story
Developing messaging, copywriting, editorial content, campaigns, and narratives that help organisations communicate with confidence and authenticity.
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Design
Creating visual identities, websites, publications, presentations, and digital experiences that translate strategy into something people can see, understand, and remember.
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Partnerships & Growth
Supporting sponsorships, fundraising, corporate partnerships, email marketing, community engagement, and long-term relationship building.
Education, Mentorship & Recognition
Himmat Media is the product of many classrooms, organisations, communities, and mentors. Jagreet's practice continues to evolve through curiosity, collaboration, and lifelong learning.
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Education
LLB (JD Pathway), University of Leicester
B.A. Criminology & Forensic Studies, Simon Fraser University
Brand Strategy & Digital Marketing, British Columbia Institute of Technology
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Continued Learning
HubSpot Content & Email Marketing
Vantage Point Operational Bootcamp for Nonprofits
Nahanee Creative Decolonisation & Cultural Sensitivity
Google Digital Garage Certifications
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Recognition
BC Multiculturalism & Anti-Racism Awards, Emerging Leader
Surrey Board of Trade Top 25 Under 25
Universal Women's Network Most Inspirational Woman Nominee
Women's Network Top 100 Most Powerful Women Nominee
Web Excellence Awards Best Web Design Agency Nominee
Beyond the Studio
Outside of client work, Jagreet's creative practice continues through lifting heavy, reading, writing, research, photography, design, and the slow curation of ideas. She is particularly drawn to systems thinking, community-building, and long-term creative projects that explore identity, culture, and belonging. Alongside this, a personal reflective practice helps create space for observation, perspective, and intentionality, quietly informing the way she approaches both life and work. She also has a chocolate labrador retriever named Buddy who is her long distance bff and favourite FaceTime call.
Current Booklist
Voices of Our Ancestors – Dhyani Ywahoo
Think Indigenous: Native American Spirituality for a Modern World – Doug Good Feather, Transcribed by Doug Red Hail Pineda
The Good Immigrant – Nikesh Shukla
Current Travel List
Iceland, Ecuador, Malaysia, Korea, Colombia, South Africa, New Zealand
In Their Words
Start the Conversation
Every project begins the same way: with curiosity, conversation, and a willingness to explore what already exists.
Whether you're building something new, navigating change, or looking for a long-term creative partner, I'd love to hear your story.
Email
jagreet@himmat.media
Based In
Leicester, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦
Availability
Currently accepting a limited number of client projects and consulting partnerships.