Strategic Clarity.
Creative Delivery.
I help communications leaders navigate complex challenges with clear thinking and hands-on execution.
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Expert Support When You Need It Most
I work with communications leaders and senior teams through challenging times where additional support and ideas are required. I integrate quickly, understand the context and act as a trusted partner and extension of your team.
Whether it’s shaping strategy or delivering at pace, I bring calm, clarity and momentum.
When things are hectic, complex or time-pressured, my clients know they can hand over a project with confidence. I take ownership, anticipate what’s needed next, and deliver work that’s thoughtful, practical and ready to land. The feedback I hear most often is simple: I bring good energy to a team and things feel easier when I’m around.
Communications, Engagement and Content
I help organisations communicate with clarity, credibility and purpose, with proven experience across multiple organisations and sectors.
I work with senior leaders to understand issues and create narratives that translate complex ideas into clear and compelling communications. I am comfortable working in highly regulated, risk-aware organisations where messaging needs to be precise, aligned and trustworthy.
I bring hands-on experience across:
Enterprise-wide change and transformation programmes
Internal engagement across diverse, distributed workforces
Executive and leadership communications
Stakeholder and client communications in complex matrix organisations
Branding and messaging
I am used to stepping into uncertain, ambiguous situations, quickly building relationships with key stakeholders, understanding the organisational context, and providing calm, structured communications leadership.
Strategic
Communications
I develop clear communication strategies that align with organisational objectives, support delivery, and stand up to scrutiny.
This includes narrative development, messaging frameworks, channel planning and measurement. I’m used to having to flex to changing circumstances, helping keep messaging on-point and being reactive to feedback.
Human-Centred Change Communications
I design and deliver engagement approaches that help people understand what’s changing, why it matters, and what it means for them. I’ve worked with widely differing audiences, ensuring an appropriately pitched focus on human-centred communications that build trust and reduce noise during change.
When telling your story, I focus on bringing out what will motivate, engage and excite your audience so you achieve objectives.
Change Management
Having worked on numerous change projects across global organisations and sectors, I’ve led change management to support significant transformation—helping leaders communicate change clearly, engage people effectively, and maintain trust in highly regulated, high-pressure environments.
Change doesn’t land and stick by luck or accident. Ensuring any change is successful depends on how well that change is understood, adopted and sustained by your people. My work in technology and organisational change programmes has proven that starting with the people and understanding their needs is the best way to ensure success.
I bring extensive experience supporting complex change programmes, including:
· Enterprise and multi-year transformation initiatives
· Operating model, process and technology change
· Regulatory-driven change and remediation programmes
· Cultural and behavioural change
· Mergers, restructures and organisational redesign
I am used to working alongside transformation, HR, PMO and leadership teams, providing clear communications leadership and structured change support in environments where ambiguity, competing priorities and stakeholder risk are the norm.
Interim and Fractional Management
I’ve worked as Interim Head of Communications in large, global organisations, stepping in to cover management of teams to ensure comms functions remain effective, credible and aligned with strategic priorities.
I’ve led communications across complex, regulated environments, built new comms teams from scratch and recruited additional resource, keeping the day-to-day responsibilities of the team on track and performing at pace. My experience includes corporate, internal, external and stakeholder communications.
I’ve executed existing comms strategies and developed my own, doing what’s needed quickly and taking ownership from day one. I assess existing teams and channels, stabilising delivery where needed and supporting team members across multiple projects. I work closely with CEOs, leadership teams and partners as a trusted adviser, managing complex stakeholders and being very hands-on with delivery.
As a fractional Head of Comms I help your comms team keep momentum, coaching and mentoring the team and providing experienced leadership across all comms activities.
Video
I’ve written video scripts for banks, private equity firms, nuclear submarines and Listerine mouthwash, amongst many others!
With a background in fictional scriptwriting (my scripts have been commissioned by the UK Film Council four times), I’ve developed my ability to tell stories to become a storyteller for corporate organisations. I take important messaging, complex ideas and technical subject matter to create engaging, high-quality video content to inform, educate and inspire.
I’ve directed leaders, employees, clients and customers in a range of videos that explain key messages clearly and with impact, while being visually creative and reflective of the organisation’s brand and values.
I’ve worked with experienced media-trained leaders, to nervous frontline colleagues, guiding them with delivery and messaging to feel confident on camera and ensuring the final piece is authentic, concise and purposeful.
It’s not about making sure people watch all the way to the end. It’s about making it so good that they watch it again.
Events
Whether it’s an in-person event for thousands of colleagues, or a virtual, studio-produced event for leadership, suppliers or investors, I’ve managed a wide range of events from concept to completion.
I work with leaders to shape the format and decide on speakers, helped develop, write and produce content, including scripting videos, coached presenters and managed successful events on the day.
I’ve worked closely with internal teams and external events companies to prepare and execute outstanding events, led production of set design, helped nervous colleagues prepare for their presentation, and managed venues and staff to ensure a smooth event that exceeds expectations.
If you need a dedicated expert to plan, design and deliver your event, get in touch to discuss how I can help.
Clients Testimonials
Working at the intersection of strategy and delivery, I integrate with internal teams to solve their most complex communications challenges. Here is what my partners say about the impact of our collaboration.
Global Experience.
Immediate Impact.
From the boardrooms of London’s financial district to the submarine yards of the North, my career has been defined by versatility and results.
Whether stepping in as a fractional expert or leading a major change programme, I provide the experienced hands needed to ensure your most critical communications land successfully.
