Strategic, practical & trusted sounding board for business leaders

Trusted business, brand and communications adviser. Supporting through growth, change, crisis and reputation issues. Drawing on nearly 30 years' experience building businesses, leading communications agencies and advising organisations of all sizes.

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How I Can Help

Business & Brand Communications

Aligning your brand narrative with your purpose and commercial direction. A bit link a management consultant for communications. I work alongside leadership & teams to clarify core messaging, protect brand reputation, and ensure how you communicate internally and externally to mirror your purpose, business plan and growth strategy.

Growth, Change & Critical Moments

For leadership teams I offer support through important business moments. Whether you are navigating a growth, restructuring, managing M&A, leadership changes or unexpected crisis, I provide expert, experienced communications support and counsel as well as senior ‘doing’ arms and legs when you are under pressure.

Agency & SME Advisory

Practical, peer to peer mentoring, a trusted experienced ‘head & hands’ to support founders and teams in growing businesses. Having built, grown and exited my own small award-winning, B Corp Comms agency, I offer lived experience and no-nonsense strategic advice to help busy leaders unblock operational challenges, refine strategy and make decisions.

I’ve lived through most of the messy and joyful pieces of owning and running a small people based business. I’ll help you navigate all the scenarios, and find a path forward with confidence.

Cornwall, Coastal Sounding Board

A safe, confidential space for women facing transition in work & life. When you need time and space with someone you can trust and who has lived experience to listen, understand and guide you. I create a space online or walking along Cornwall’s beautiful coastline, to allow you to offload, sense-check and work through challenges. Together we can consider alternative scenarios and determine a way forward with confidence.

PROVEN TRUSTED ADVISOR 

REAL WORLD BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

FIRST HAND UNDERSTANDING OF LEADERSHIP

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Who I work with

After nearly three decades advising organisations and leading businesses of my own, I work best with people carrying responsibility. Founders. Agency owners. Leadership teams. Business leaders navigating growth, change, uncertainty or opportunity.

My role is simple: to bring empathy, perspective, challenge and practical advice when it matters most.

Recent experience of advising businesses includes the following areas:

  • Brands & Businesses

  • Leadership Teams

  • Marketing, PR & Communications Teams

  • Travel, Tourism & Hospitality Businesses

  • Agency Founders, Leaders & Boards

  • SMEs & Start Ups

  • People Navigating Change

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Why Work With Me?

I've spent my working life helping businesses & leaders navigate growth, change & opportunity.

I've worked with global brands, ambitious growth businesses, founders, investors, entrepreneurs and leadership teams. I've built and led my own businesses, advised difficult boards, supported acquisitions, managed change, navigated crises and helped organisations find clarity, momentum and growth.

My perspective hasn't come from business experience alone.

Alongside this, 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.

Those experiences have taught me that the most valuable thing you can offer is perspective, honesty and a safe space to think things through, or with a business friend who will walk beside you and share the responsibility.

Clients often describe me as trusted, practical, commercially minded and someone who brings clarity to complexity. Read my recommendations and testimonials.

I help people navigate growth, change and opportunity with greater clarity, confidence and purpose.

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