Strategic, practical and trusted advisor for business leaders
Helping navigate growth, change, crisis and reputation issues, drawing on 30 years' experience building businesses, leading communications agencies and advising organisations of all sizes.
How I Can Help
Every business is different, so the support I provide varies too. Most of my work falls across four key areas, depending on where you need experience, perspective or an extra pair of hands.
Supporting growth, change & critical moments
Strategic counsel and senior ‘doing’ arms and legs when you’re under pressure
I work with leaders and teams to provide expert, experienced communications counsel and support, whether navigating growth, restructuring, managing M&A, dealing with tricky leadership changes or steering through an unexpected crisis
Aligning your brand narrative
Development of your business and brand communications
Working alongside leadership teams I help to clarify core messaging, protect brand reputation and ensure your internal and external communications properly reflect your purpose, business plan and growth strategy
No nonsense strategic advice
Practical, peer to peer mentoring to support founders and teams in growing businesses
Having built, grown and exited my own small award-winning B Corp Comms agency, I’ve lived through most of the messy and joyful pieces of owning and running a small people based business. I can offer lived experience and advice to help busy leaders unblock challenges and navigate scenarios to determine the right way forward
Cornwall, Coastal Counsel
A safe, confidential space and sounding board for women facing transition in work and life
When you might value time with someone you can trust, who will listen in complete confidence, and who can help you navigate options and determine ways to move forward with confidence ... I work on a one to one basis where we create a safe space online or simply walking together along Cornwall’s beautiful coastline. Time to think, time for you, time to work things through.
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PROVEN TRUSTED ADVISOR
REAL WORLD BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
FIRST HAND UNDERSTANDING OF LEADERSHIP
Why work with me?
Clients often describe me as trusted, practical, commercially minded, and someone who brings clarity to complexity
I offer breadth and depth of experience to help businesses and leaders navigate growth, change and opportunity.
Working with almost every shape and size of organisation, from global brands and scaling start ups, to demanding founders, investors, and serial entrepreneurs. There isn’t much I haven’t seen or experienced throughout my thirty years of services.
I’ve provided client counsel to hostile boards, merger & acquisitions, leadership change and reputational, service interruption and natural disaster crises. Throughout it all I’ve guided and supported organisations to find and communicate authentically with clarity and momentum.
I bring perspective, challenge and empathy
Alongside my work I've raised a family, balanced competing responsibilities, experienced loss, navigated uncertainty and learned that leadership rarely happens in isolation from the rest of life.
Honesty and a safe space
Life and work has taught me that the most valuable thing you can offer is sometimes perspective, honesty and a safe space to talk and think things through. Sometimes simply to be a business friend who will walk beside you and share the responsibility.
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Who I’ve worked with
I’ve straddled many roles and worn lots of hats in the past three decades, as a board member of two WPP agencies, European representative for economic trade and development for a US State, a strategist and advisor for global brands and almost everything in between. I’ve enjoyed all of them and have a strong track record of impacting positively commercially, culturally and in building profile.
Recent work has been with leadership teams of significant travel brands, and two leading communication agencies along with a small independent restaurant growing through digital visibility.
I work best with people carrying responsibility: Founders, Agency owners, Leadership teams and business leaders navigating growth, change, uncertainty or opportunity.
Recent advisory work has encompassed
Brand Development
Change Management
Agency Founders, Senior Leadership and Boards
Marketing, PR & Communications
Travel, Tourism & Hospitality
SME’s & Startups
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