I help organisations and individuals build influence with the public, politicians and businesses.

I help businesses and non-profits to create communications, campaign and impact strategies, then develop teams to execute them.

I’m skilled at working across teams, from the most senior to the most junior people. I work closely with CEOs, SLTs and funders, and run collaborative strategy processes that give everyone involved a chance to do their best thinking.

I bring structure, creativity, and kind challenge to help groups narrow their focus and test the strength of their ideas.

Recent consultancy work

• Developing a from-scratch strategy for a new non-profit focused on UK climate communications

• Designing a new strategic communications unit for an economics organisation

• Leading communications strategy for net-zero data business Icebreaker One. Work with CEO on positioning, reputation and stakeholder engagement and designed engagement around COP26

• Developing an organisational development strategy for an organisation specialising in climate and energy analysis

How I built the skill

• Developing communications strategies for successful campaigns to ban letting agent fees, reverse the cut in child tax credit, and change tax policy for hedge fund managers

• Five years on the SLT of 38 Degrees, developing and delivering organisational strategy in a highly volatile political context. Managing change and growth while maintaining a nimble, entrepreneurial culture

• Setting and delivering a successful strategy to grow 38 Degrees income by 20%

• In-depth leadership training including Rockwood’s Art of Leadership and MobLab Campaign Accelerator

I design sessions that get the best out of teams. Sometimes that’s about taking an early stage idea and develop the bones of a strategy. Sometimes it’s helping teams design new ways to work together to implement a strategy. Sometimes it’s helping groups be ambitious, creative and impact-focused with their plans.

Meetings and workshops that I design feel focused, outcome-driven, creative and low-drama (with no cringe icebreakers).

Recent consultancy work

• Facilitating an international campaign strategy retreat for a climate funder, bringing a new team together for the first time

• Designing and delivering strategy sessions for a climate communication start-up that aligned the team and defined brand characteristics

• Co-designing and delivering campaigning training for an international Global Corporate Affairs team

How I built the skill

• 10 years of facilitation experience

• Regularly leading public meetings, strategy sessions, awaydays and focus groups as a Campaign Director at 38 Degrees

• Leading campaign strategy sessions at key pivot points in campaigns - bringing a team together to react to breaking news and plotting a path forward

• Top-notch facilitation training from the BBC Creative Leadership, Nancy Kline’s Thinking Environment, and Liberating Structures

I work with people 121 as a thinking or sparring partner to help them think through the most important issues they face at work. I lean on my leadership, strategy and communications experience to provide honest feedback, a new perspective, and space to think.

I create a non-judgemental, warm and informal environment where we can get to the heart of an issue.

Recent coaching work

• Coaching startup founders at the University of Westminster venture accelerator

• Working 121 with leaders to tighten strategies and work through confidential team problems

• Working with a senior climate specialist to help them develop their confidence in presentation and public speaking

• Working with a journalist to develop a personal social media strategy

How I built the skill

• A Masters-level coaching qualification

• Three years of formal coaching experience

• A decade of leading teams and practising the full range of line management: supporting high performers through promotions, performance management, restructuring, setting up new teams and managing major change

• Advising CEOs and boards on organisational strategy, reputation and team performance including crisis management

My writing has appeared in the FT, Guardian, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Times (and Teen Vogue) and gone to COP and Davos. I write op-eds, briefings, and reports to help organisations build a clear story to tell to their audiences - political, public or business.

I take a strategic approach, targeting a crisp goal and specific audience with speed and adaptability.

I’ve got an exceptional ability to work with complex technical or political topics: working directly with experts, understanding what will cut through to the audience, and translating it into high-quality messaging and copy.

Recent consultancy work

• Writing briefings for Davos and COP stakeholders for science communication organisation Arctic Basecamp. Turning complex climate science and economic analysis into focused briefings for politicians and business leaders

• Regularly ghostwriting op-eds for high-profile voices. They’ve appeared in the FT, Times, Guardian and Wall Street Journal

How I built the skill

• Cutting my teeth with 10 years experiences in busy press offices - writing tight reactive lines and news stories every day to tight deadlines, developing flair and soundbites on a deadline

• Five years experience writing, editing and approving emails sent to 38 Degrees’ email list of two million people - building campaigns that changed government policy, raised millions of pounds, and moved hundreds of thousands of people to take action.

• A career spent working directly with technical experts to create stories that meet the audience where they are - from housebuilding, to data infrastructure, to carbon credits, to the welfare system