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.

  • Strategy

    Building clarity before action through brand strategy, positioning, audience research, fundraising strategy, organisational planning, and communications.

  • Story

    Developing messaging, copywriting, editorial content, campaigns, and narratives that help organisations communicate with confidence and authenticity.

  • Design

    Creating visual identities, websites, publications, presentations, and digital experiences that translate strategy into something people can see, understand, and remember.

  • 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.

  • Education

    • LLB (JD Pathway), University of Leicester

    • B.A. Criminology & Forensic Studies, Simon Fraser University

    • Brand Strategy & Digital Marketing, British Columbia Institute of Technology

  • Continued Learning

    • HubSpot Content & Email Marketing

    • Vantage Point Operational Bootcamp for Nonprofits

    • Nahanee Creative Decolonisation & Cultural Sensitivity

    • Google Digital Garage Certifications

  • 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.

Woman smiling with sunglasses sitting in car, holding a large brown and black dog wearing a red harness.

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

  • "Jagreet has a rare ability to connect an organisation's value with the people it's trying to reach. She listens deeply, asks thoughtful questions, and brings a unique strategic perspective to every project. Her creativity, organisation, and genuine care made the entire process feel collaborative, empowering, and incredibly effective."

    Manveer Singh
    Digital Marketing Strategist & Web Designer

    ★★★★★

  • "Jagreet was a pleasure to work alongside. She built relationships effortlessly across every department, collaborated with ease, and brought a calm, positive energy to every project. Her leadership, communication, and willingness to support those around her made her an invaluable member of the team."

    Madeline Nachbar
    People & Operations Coordinator, Hubly

    ★★★★★

  • "Jagreet quickly understood my vision and translated it into a website that truly reflected my work. She listened carefully, offered thoughtful recommendations, and made the entire process exciting, collaborative, and enjoyable. I couldn't be happier with the final result."

    Baljinder Narang
    Chair, Burnaby Healthier Community Partnership & Sikh Research Institute

    ★★★★★

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.