Senior marketer, brand creator, events producer and strategic communications expert. Specialist experience in the arts (theatre, festivals, visual arts), and a passion for the UK beer industry.Social enterprise founder. Activist, championing women in male dominated spaces and women in leadership.Current projects: Marketing and Communications Consultant at The Exhibitions Group; Media Relations at Theatre of the 7 Directions; and Director and Producer at Women On Tap CIC, currently leading an Advisory Board of 12 as we work through a 6-month strategic review and planning process.Voluntary work: Board Director at The British Guild of Beer Writers, and Mentor on the Santander Breakthrough Women Business Leaders' Mentoring Programme._____________________________________________25+ years experience in brand, marketing, communications, and events, including as head of department and on senior management teams, as well as in consultancy roles. Skilled in relationship building and partnership engagement.Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Elected to the British Guild of Beer Writers Board of Directors in July 2023. Mentor on the 2024 Santander Breakthrough Women Business Leaders Mentoring Programme and the Women in Beer Mentorship Programme. Hold the ILM Level 3 Award in Effective Coaching. Have worked directly with SME founders and owner-managers, senior management teams, and boards of directors across tech, charities and not-for-profits, and FMCG including the beer industry. Now actively cross-pollinating a wide range of knowledge and experience as I go, to drive positive change and core resilience.Key skills in strategic brand, communications and engagement within arts, culture, women's causes, creative projects, beer, and festivals. Good at building solid, skilled and motivated teams, and I look after my people. A creative thinker, not afraid to challenge the status quo. Tenacious as hell.Founder of Women On Tap CIC and Harrogate Beer Week. Winner of the British Guild of Beer Writers Best Beer Writer, Regional Media silver award in 2021.Invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in June 2021 for my work to positively raise the profile of women in beer.Drum banger about the social value of beer and pubs and about the need to seat qualified marketeers at the top table in your organisation.