Writing coach and mentoring: Playwriting, Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction courses. From autumn 2024 Screenwriting, Comedy writing. Author: Somerset Maugham Award for 'Two Kinds of Silence.' New Welsh Writing Awards 2023 winner for 'Invisibility'. Hay Festival Writer at Work. Finalist, Little Wonder Radio Script Award. Finalist, John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry. Longlisted National Poetry Competition. Royal Literary Fund Fellow: From September 2024, hosting 'Reading Round', a reading group with a difference! In Cardiff, free places, contact me for details. Formerly mentored undergraduates, postgraduates and staff with their writing skills in 1-2-1 tutorials at Cardiff University and Swansea Universities.Journalist: Business Journalist of the Year, Wales Media Awards 2017. I write, ghost, train and speak for clients including RBS/NatWest, AAT, Wales Business Insider, The Royal Mint. I focus on law, sustainability, ethics, start-ups and SMEs. Copywriting: 200+ articles for the business press including Marketing Week, Marketing, CEO, Finance Director Europe, Excellence in Leadership and B2B Magazine. Regular columns in The Guardian Careers Blog, MyCustomer.com, Training Journal. 100+ articles for NatWest/RBS and 100+ articles for AAT. Also ICAEW, European Leadership University, Lombard, Ulster Bank and London Business School Review. Have written for The Guardian, the Independent as was, FT, ghosted for the Daily Telegraph.Business books: I scoped, interviewed and wrote the Business Continuity Institute's official history, 'BCI: An oral history of a 21st Century Institute' for its 25th anniversary in 2019. Featured contributor to the FT Handbook of Management 3rd edition.Corporate: Former Head of Research at the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Contributed to policy publications by RIBA and Defra. Contributed to the development of Imperial Business School's MSc in marketing. Speaking: 150+ talks for the IoD, PM Society, iStrategy, NHS Choices, World Social Marketing Conference, HSJ, LGC, Cambridge Digital Conference, Internet World, TFMA, O2 Olympics Opportunities, Manchester Business School. Keynotes for AMA, UK ASDCs, BIG B2B.Media: appearances on Sky News, BBC1 South Today, Radio 4, Radio Wales, Radio Bristol, Hay Festival, Wales Millennium Centre Ignite Gala. Consultancy: Microsoft, Defra, Business Link, Westminster City Council, NHS. Former judge BIAZA and BOSS industry awards.Past lapsed stuff: Ex-Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIM), Ex-Chartered Marketer, Ex-Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).
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