Proven Senior Executive with board experience and extensive management background in publishing, media, marketing , communications and retail consulting. Brand expert with demonstrated strategic ability to build, develop and maintain brands: strong and passionate communicator with record of achievement as an innovator and collaborative leader. Equally at ease in commercial and creative environments. Promoter of effective and appropriate use of social media, professionally and personally. 2014, Group Publisher of Fashion and Health titles at Pacific Magazines. Prior to this, from 1995 Publisher & Editor of Australia’s number one fashion magazine, marie claire. My love affair with magazines began more than 27 years ago when I first started in the fashion team of Harper’s Bazaar Australia. This was the launching pad of an international career in magazines working at prestige titles like UK and US Elle, Mademoiselle, UK and US marie claire. In 1995, inaugural editor of Australian marie claire.As a strong campaigner for women’s rights I have been committed to making a difference to the lives of Australian women, most evident through marie claire’s award-winning campaigns for social change, such as our push for paid maternity leave, marriage equality and stamping out violence against children. These campaigns received extensive TV and press coverage, and even official government acknowledgment of the role marie claire played in the introduction of paid maternity leave to Australia. Best known for being the Editor of marie claire, I wear a number of other hats; business woman, innovator, TV personality, journalist, author, social media enthusiast and most importantly mother. I appear regularly on the Seven Network’s Sunrise (Australia’s number one breakfast show). I have taken my “Frankly Speaking” interviews to Seven’s Sunday Night show. Featured in the 2011 behind-the-scenes show marie claire Under the Cover, and as a judge on Make Me a Supermodel in 2008.